Powerful Gun - Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections - BBC Two

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sl4n9
Richard Hammond unpicks the engineering DNA of the mighty aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. In this clip, he learns about it's powerful guns.

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  • World peace, people, world peace! Stop building weapons - feed the hungry with the money instead...

  • No shooting? :(

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  • @idk459 wow i didnt realize how much i typed haha

  • @idk459 take the vietnam war for example, the US had much more advanced technology and weapons back then than the vietnamese yet they still beat the US because they used ingenuity and the US probably underestimated them

  • @idk459 and every month more and more weapons that appear to have sci-fi characteristics or look alien like are invented by scientist all over the world. the rate of which humans are developing is very quick, maybe too quick for some people to keep up with. never the less even if some alien race had tech more advanced than us, that doesnt mean we cant win, take the vietnam war for example, the US had much ...continued

  • @idk459 yes but we have the ability to travel through space, we have the technology, secret or not, its just we are too scared to and there are too many things we are unsure of out there. plus the building of weapons helps us advance many other aspects of technology such as medicine, cars, energy sources etc. for example, if we do manage to create the anti matter bomb, what are the implications of that? endless

  • @Shift4chizzle i think a race that travels through space and enters another planets orbit will have a bit more of a advantage with weapons then some lead

  • @alaswoeisme money isnt real food is though and you dont need money to grow it :D

  • It costs $400,000 to fire this gun... for twelve seconds.

  • @alaswoeisme ok imagine we didnt or stop building weapons, then when an alien races comes to take over us what will we do

  • @WilhelmWie Don't you use money? Do you grow your own food?

  • @alaswoeisme

    I don't think you can feed hungry with money. Money is not edible you see

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