• A Cannon for Shooting Supplies into Space
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[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;19649487]Are you dumb? It needs to go that fast to break earths gravitational pull and get into space. That's not overkill at all.[/QUOTE] This guy's correct.
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;19649503]Is it in the water or in a pipe? If it is, wouldn't it severely slow it down from having to fight against the water pressure? Wouldn't it be much more conventional to make this underground inside the country?[/QUOTE] Do you know what a cannon is or what And yeah great idea lets build this under a town or city so if it blows up it kills tons of people good idea.
Hey ISS! GO LONG!
There's already been research into this. Hell, even Saddam started building one, except it would have launched some sort of villainous super-weapon satellite. Putting it semi-underwater like this is new, though.
It would suck to be a bird flying by minding his own business only to get knocked the fuck out by whatever this thing is shooting.
Where's the huge guns thread when you need it?
[QUOTE=Enishi;19649702]It would suck to be a bird flying by minding his own business only to get knocked the fuck out by whatever this thing is shooting.[/QUOTE] The bird wouldn't feel a thing.
Didn't some american biologists used to own a rail gun to see if they could sunblock the earth? Why not use that instead of a hydrogen cannon.
[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;19649561]Do you know what a cannon is or what And yeah great idea lets build this under a town or city so if it blows up it kills tons of people good idea.[/QUOTE] Take it easy, no need to bite my head off. Regarding my suggestion of putting underground, I meant that we put it out in the desert or somewhere near one of the space centers. [i]Do you know what common sense is or what?[/i]
[QUOTE=ShitBalls;19649828]Didn't some american biologists used to own a rail gun to see if they could sunblock the earth? Why not use that instead of a hydrogen cannon.[/QUOTE] Because it'd need retarded amount of capacitors, it's own power plant and it'd need replaced after every shot.
My mail gets damaged badly just sending it through the post office. I would hate to send mail via really powerful gun.
Somehow I can imagine some launch going wrong and some poor nation getting bombed by a 13000mph satellite.
[QUOTE=Nitrowing;19649933]Take it easy, no need to bite my head off. Regarding my suggestion of putting underground, I meant that we put it out in the desert or somewhere near one of the space centers. [i]Do you know what common sense is or what?[/i][/QUOTE] Yeah maybe you should use common sense. Putting it underground would make maintenance a pain in the ass, this thing is going to take a ton of land, and putting it the desert will cause hard core weathering to take place. Having it in the middle of the ocean makes it less likely to kill a ton of people. It also could be moved if the need arose.
Use it to defend earth from aliens.
I see absolutely no possible flaw in this plan.
I can just imagine the international space station being shot down by a misfired juice packet or something.
They can now order pizzas in space.
The maths seems fine, but they'll need some retro rockets to move it into position in orbit i presume.
At the speed its going... A pizza would most likely be liquidized :(
This guy must be compensating for something. :smug:
Wouldn't the supplies literally vaporize due to the speed and pressure it is going to go under exiting the atmosphere?
[QUOTE=Destroyertf;19648944]Intergalactical mail![/QUOTE] You have Earth Mail!
RollerCoaster based on this...............NOW PLZ! ( space mountain does not count )
Well this is dumb. We have the technology to build a rail gun to do this. We've had the design since before we had even perfected rail guns. And a rail gun would cost pennies per pound to shoot if supplied with power from a nuclear energy source. Maintaining it would cost a fraction of what it would for a hydrogen cannon.
[QUOTE=GunFox;19654048]Well this is dumb. We have the technology to build a rail gun to do this. We've had the design since before we had even perfected rail guns. And a rail gun would cost pennies per pound to shoot if supplied with power from a nuclear energy source. Maintaining it would cost a fraction of what it would for a hydrogen cannon.[/QUOTE] So it's basically a mass driver?
nurf spac cannan is op.
What happened to just using balloons? :saddowns:
We need to get supplies up within a reasonable time limit, i don't believe a balloon would get in to space fast enough.
just make sure there aren't any planes overhead
Holy fuck this so awesome it hurts.
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