WTF? Business? Are we going to shoot the recession with a rail gun?

Hey wait a minute, that sounds pretty cool.

*Looks up Ben Bernanke's e-mail*

Cagey B: WTF? Business? Are we going to shoot the recession with a rail gun?

Business...take care of it with a rail gun.

AWESOME! All those years of playing Quake2 will finally be worth something.

That headline is the truthiness.

/and that really does make me sad

FTFA: "next generation warships are expected to use electric drive systems, meaning that they will be have 80 megawatts or more on hand. If this power can be used to put violence onto the enemy as well as driving the ship, that's good news for logistics and supply."

Heh, violence on the enemy - I like the ring of that.

Glitter boys are next, I'm telling you.

Anyone living in Lubbock, Texas might want to move.

/sorry, my geek is showing

Yeah, cus Bertha is only a fat woman's name.

/Krupps godwin FTW

xanadian: Cagey B: WTF? Business? Are we going to shoot the recession with a rail gun?

Hey wait a minute, that sounds pretty cool.

FTFM.

Yeah, I agree...this should be in Geek. Oh well. I'd still like to see this thing in action.

Although I imagine this guy would not approve:



/waits for teh B5 geeks to correct my lack of technical knowledge or something

B5 geek here. The narn homeworld was bombarded by mass drivers. Now the Galactica is armed with rail guns.

/crap, I've outed myself...

Satan_Sunburn: FTFA: "next generation warships are expected to use electric drive systems, meaning that they will be have 80 megawatts or more on hand. If this power can be used to put violence onto the enemy as well as driving the ship, that's good news for logistics and supply."

Heh, violence on the enemy - I like the ring of that.

Haha, that should be the official slogan of the US Navy instead of whatever the hell it is now.

The United States Navy--Putting violence onto the enemy.

UberDave: TFA: ...and already represents significantly more poke than a normal five-inch...


Hey man...I don't think I would brag about a normal five-inch no matter how much poke it had...


thanks, dave, i came here precisely for this.

Pope Schizoid XIV

The Narn homeworld was bombarded by mass drivers

They run Vista?

If Hillary is elected POTUS (ugh), the Chinese won't have to steal it....she'll give it to them on a silver platter.

not if the GOP hits her with a rail gun first.. i wonder if Cheney has one

Railguns are nice from a distance but when you're up close and personal, blasters are the way to go.

/Gallente

OK, I admit that I didn't know what a rail gun is. For others in the same boat, here's from Wiki:

Railguns consist of two rails, an anode and a cathode. A shell which can conduct electricity is placed between these two rails and completes an electric circuit between the anode and the cathode. This allows current to flow, which creates a magnetic field at right angles to the rails, which then creates a field of force that pushes the shell out of the barrel.

Before this technology becomes practical, there are two big problems to be solved:

Finding strong materials and a design that can withstand the huge forces generated.
Designing a power supply mechanism that will not break every time the railgun fires.

/You're welcome, fellow ingnorami.

Why bother stealing? The klintons have a proven track record of selling our top tech to enemy nations for a few bucks in campaign money and a couple of hookers.

I saw a prono called "rail gun" one time.

you have 5 seconds to comply...

You better do what he says..

The US army can't defeat a bunch of sand monkeys with towels on their heads armed with AK-47s with the weapons they have now. How will a rail gun help?

Wake me up when they invent Duke Nukem's shrink ray or freeze gun.

Of course, the freeze gun could cause shrinkage...

/approves

Published Wednesday 30th January 2008 22:15 GMT

That means that this happened today!

curious of the results... anyone?

Muta: The US army can't defeat a bunch of sand monkeys with towels on their heads armed with AK-47s with the weapons they have now. How will a rail gun help?

Huh huh yeah, your a dumbass.

archichefcture: you have 5 seconds to comply...

This looks shopped...

/yeah, I'm bored ;)

What's up with the grammar in that article?

I hope in future that they be have a proofreader
putting a proofread onto the article.

Is the Register written by 7th graders?

Awesome, I thought Quake 5 would never come out.

/what?

Muta: The US army can't defeat a bunch of sand monkeys with towels on their heads armed with AK-47s with the weapons they have now. How will a rail gun help?

Well, obviously we need it to shoot down the Russian nukes!

Oh wait...a decade too late...or early....

Crunch61: Railguns are nice from a distance but when you're up close and personal, blasters are the way to go.

/Gallente

Intaki FTW

\what is ur main EvE handle?

Muta: The US army can't defeat a bunch of sand monkeys with towels on their heads armed with AK-47s with the weapons they have now. How will a rail gun help?

Must not feed...

Pope Schizoid XIV
Beat me to it.

Basically, they dropped big effin' rocks on homeworld.
Like Deep Impact, except the heroes failed.

FTFA
They might also be good for shooting down fast-moving flying things.

I'm tellin ya RIGHT NOW. We are gonna get invaded by aliens soon. The gov. knows about it and are trying to organize a stronger defense.

The aliens are laughing at our puny attempts to repel them.

We are all doomed. Make your peace people, the end is neigh!

/I'm just kidding
//i think.....

I'm just here to pitch in that rail guns have already been used effectively in quite a few Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis episodes.

stress tensor: I'm just here to pitch in that rail guns have already been used effectively in quite a few Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis episodes.

So obviously the tests must have been a success.

I am enjoying reading this on my holoproj screen while my flying car sits in the carport.

Yay Future!

approves

Railguns are fine if confined to Hammerhead tanks, where you can use the submunitions round as well as the main solid shot.

Now, the Broadside suits are perhaps more durable (especially with shield drones), but without the submunitions option their utility is a bit more limited.

/Tau. The other blue meat.

New_Orleans: Awesome, I thought Quake 5 would never come out.

/what?

That's what I thought when I heard "Rail Gun." See also: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. The Strogg's rail gun sniper rifle is mean business.

Crunch61: Railguns are nice from a distance but when you're up close and personal, blasters are the way to go.

/Gallente

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Beerguy: Satan_Sunburn: Muta: The US army can't defeat a bunch of sand monkeys with towels on their heads armed with AK-47s with the weapons they have now. How will a rail gun help?

Must not feed...

I am resisting as well, we must stay strong.

Your resistance strengthens me. Thank you.

Tainted1
Huh huh yeah, your a dumbass.

It sounds to me like he thought it through more than you did. Why don't we drop you off into the middle of a busy Iraqi marketplace, with a railgun.

THen see how many terrorist's concealing nothing but FISTS you can pick off before you realize you're in their element and are already screwed.

A railgun won't do a better job than snipers can, plain and simple. Of course, snipers have actually been useful in Iraq, but they still do jack sh*t in an urban crowd.

Business?

Cool. That means I can buy one.

Get off the cell phone, lady!! Chewie, fire up the rail gun.



/Pencil me in for one. Hopefully, I can pay in installments?