The Rail Gun is at ISAS(JAXA) in Japan 2006.

This rail gun is made for space development. The developer is ISAS(JAXA) in Japan. This is NOT weapons. This rail gun has our dream.

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[jrcgarry]

Marvellous - thank you tsukasaoishi.

I was at ISAS for a few months in 1997 - and the open days were a real delight.

Hordes of visitors of all ages - this was when Lunar-A was still going strong.

Great days.

Best wishes for the rail gun's future - presumably as a launch system.

ありがとう

[tsukasaoishi]

@jrcgarry I'm glad to receive your comment. I wish it too.

[Helge129]

by being one.

[ARM02]

What sounds like laughter at the end is actually moans of fear...the video cuts outs out just before the tentacles burst out of the box and proceed to force all the women present.

Japan, eh?

[jrcgarry]

@VinnieDain424

Ah, not quite. The projectile is a conductive bar that slides between two rails. A current passes through one rail, through the sliding bar, and back down the other rail. This creates a magnetic field which seeks to push apart the conductors in the circuit. The two rails are solidly and firmly fixed and unable to move - but the sliding *conductive* projectile is able to move and does so. Greater the current, stronger the field, and the more 'push' on the moving element.

[TeknikalyRite]

Taken from description: "This is NOT weapons. This rail gun has our dream."

Oh really? You know, a certain Dr. Oppenheimer believed he was working on a piece of technology that would end warfare. It was called the Atom Bomb. And this one guy, Alfred Nobel, well he invented this thing he thought would end warfare too, it was called T.N.T. Don't insult our intelligence by claiming it isn't a weapon. It has "gun" in the name for fucks sake.

[orlock20]

@unseelieturtle , it's from ionized gas. It gets so hot that the projectile has to be moving before the railgun kicks in so the projectile doesn't get welded to the gun.

[ravenclawtom]

@stanrock0 rail guns, mass drivers, and gauss guns are also in development for space travel propulsion systems. by firing the projectile out the back of your ship, you will move in the other direction....

[biggestfallout3fan]

does anyone mind telling me what exactly a rail gun is?

[aleksandrhall]

@davethoven Oh hardy har har you sure don't sound ignorant at all.

[deusprogrammer]

@unseelieturtle Even without propellant, if a projectile goes fast enough it will literally cause the oxygen around it to ignite, so your statement isn't entirely true.

[stanrock0]

its the spark you are seeing

and if it ant a weapon its not a rail gun

and what dream?

to kill people from outer space?

i thinks it cooooooolllllllll

moar!!1!!!!