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This not only makes a great gun. You can also throw projectiles with a package inside up into orbit, for a space hotel, etc. I can see food to order being shot up to a space station restaurant. As far as a navy is concerned, 2 shells moving 5,000 mph that weigh only 10 pounds, fired at the water line of a 500 footer, and that ship is sinking. If you have 4 rounds aimed at a target, it would desegregate it. No conventional ship bow could withstand 4 30 million Jules fired into it, even if the armor were 10 feet thick. And it can't be that thick, because it would not float. But the very best part is the 200 mile range. They can sit in a minor sea lane and hit every major population zone in the area to devastating effect, especially if parked in international waters. Most cities are within 200 miles of the coast. No need to send in the planes, and no need for tactical nuclear weapons. A plane has limited ammo, but a rail gun can throw projectiles in a target area for days, until a bunker cracks, a small city is pounded to dust, or a mountain is sawed in half. And it is very hard to determine the origin of the projectiles since nobody can see them coming in. Buildings just start collapsing and burning, as if a bomb were lit from inside. In seconds, an entire street of buildings could disappear with no overpressure effects. It would be very unnerving. America will be able to keep their military edge.

These will be great for supplementing FedEX after they build enough, huh? They can drop a ton of freight or more into your parking lot without transferring to a semi, which makes shipping much more efficient. I can see these being used to lift and ferry cargo. They were used in WWII effectively, without getting shot down. (Answering other's concerns.) And they are kept back from the front lines, and only parked over cleared territory. But they need a patrol of fighter jets to visit them around the clock, and I'm SURE on-board air-to-air is included, just in case...so they are not helpless, besides electronic jamming, the whole 9 yards. HEY, ever played Red Alert 3? The blimps are the LAST weapon that can be knocked down before doing major damage, in that war game. Hummm.

My opinion: All they have invented is the world's 1st but bulkiest photon torpedo launcher. It makes a baby exploding black hole, that pierces the skin of the torus and jumps outside the magnetic bottle, traveling near the speed of light. It explodes a milli second later at some random point - BANG! You've got an exploding photon torpedo. I hope nobody gets hurt. The higher the voltage, the bigger the bang. The faster to the speed of light, the further it goes to its target. Let the games begin. What the DOD is going to ask, can they steer the dang thing, and make it light enough to mount on a space station. It's a fully re-loadable weapon that is more effective than a tactical nuke, because an electrically neutral exploding black hole can explode INSIDE its target. (Pillboxes beware, as well as bunkers a mile below ground! Nobody is safe!) Hummm. Just like when the atom bomb was invented - it's not going to yield much science until they get a grip on what it is. It either makes a big bang, or it melts a coil every-time, until they discover its true purpose, and can transcend the technology they have created, to build a defensive weapon against it, which took decades with nuclear weapons. Once the secret to its power gets out, the race is on with China and Russia to get one of their own. We could even see a race to the moon to catch the higher ground, so they can threaten with this thing. A 2 second lifespan (Earth Range) is not unreasonable, if the accelerator achieves 99.9999% percent of the speed of light or whatever. Just a thought.

Hydrogen and dust from outer space??? Please. I think the solar wind would help clear our view of the sun from a thin dust cloud in passing. Free hydrogen would reacted with. Let's hope it's not with our atmosphere, or we'll look like Venus. Yeah, we should be vigilant...but most of the threats are something to watch right NOW. I don't want to spread doom, but some scenarios need to be considered. Speaking of hydrogen clouds...we should look closer to home at methane clouds. Unthawed hydrogen compounds (methane) being released from the BOTTOM of our own oceans are a much greater threat with global warming...which is virtually imminent at this point. (The GW component.) There is also methane, a much more powerful greenhouse gas, locked in permafrost, and most of any locked-in gases (methane and CO2?) have already been released from the melting pole ice, which is clearing to open water at the north pole as you read this. That has yet to be calculated. Some Canadians have mentioned usual atmospheric activity recently, so we should be concerned, like thunder with no clouds, etc. Just a thought. If any loose hydrogen combines with organics (even CO2 to make carbonic acid like in your colas) in the atmosphere, you can get organic acids, this can KILL most of the sea life. Bleaching of coral reefs are already underway, and it could clear surface microbes or certain crops. On top of that...methane is EXPLOSIVE...so if or WHEN a huge cloud drifts over a city, you'd witness nature's OWN answer to the weapons of mass destruction. The SMELL might WARN us first, if we're lucky...since hydrogen gas compounds will give off a very strong sewer smell...but will the warning be heeded??? Memories of Soddom and sodomy may be triggered, I'm sure, due to the smell. It's POSSIBLE the event in the Bible is exactly this type of event. So it's probably HAPPENED before. Will they evacuate in time? Or will the news services just register that various callers are complaining about unusual nasty smells...then the station goes blank, and 3 mins. later the viewer is blown apart by a 300 mph "nuke" type wind, triggered by lightening? I'll bet the 1st time that happens...caves will be in short supply. Let's get the CO2 sequestered and back in the ground NOW.