Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (07 Jul 2015 23:23 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Ethan McKinney (07 Jul 2015 23:41 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (08 Jul 2015 00:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (08 Jul 2015 00:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:35 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Ethan McKinney (08 Jul 2015 04:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (08 Jul 2015 10:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Grimmund (08 Jul 2015 11:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (09 Jul 2015 08:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kelly St. Clair (09 Jul 2015 10:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 14:22 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (09 Jul 2015 07:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (10 Jul 2015 00:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (10 Jul 2015 11:43 UTC)
RE: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Anthony Jackson (10 Jul 2015 17:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 W. Hopper (10 Jul 2015 17:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (11 Jul 2015 13:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kelly St. Clair (11 Jul 2015 17:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (11 Jul 2015 18:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Richard Aiken (12 Jul 2015 07:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (24 Jul 2015 03:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:32 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 01:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 01:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Craig Berry (08 Jul 2015 02:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger (08 Jul 2015 02:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 02:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Craig Berry (08 Jul 2015 03:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Tim (08 Jul 2015 02:54 UTC)
Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 shadow@xxxxxx (08 Jul 2015 07:41 UTC)

Re: [TML] Railguns/Coilguns pt. 2 Kurt Feltenberger 08 Jul 2015 01:55 UTC

On 7/7/2015 9:50 PM, Tim wrote:
>> So here's my question:  Just how fast would the railguns or coilguns
>> >reasonably be?  50,000m/s?  100km/s?  More?
> The Speed of Plot;-)
>
> The limits on electromagnetic projectile launching are mostly a
> question of how much power you can feed into a given space while
> avoiding it turning everything to plasma.  That is, mostly a question
> of technology rather than physics.  There are some fundamental limits
> to our current approaches, but there's nothing to say that BSG would
> use those methods.

Hmm...let's walk down this path for a little bit, if we may.

What would happen if the intent was to turn it into plasma and then use
a series of gravity planes (i.e. a "gravitic barrel" if you will) to
focus and aim it?  Would it theoretically have a much greater range (and
the longer the range the less damage it would do)?

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