Re: Low Tech Scenarios

In a message dated 98-05-19 22:45:54 EDT, Owen G writes:

<< In your rail gun you may or may not need
 a fully enclosed barrel. Therefore, expanding gas is not an issue? >>

Still, you've got the physics of the thing; round goes downrange, gun
wants to
go uprange.  Equal, opposite reactions.  And some of the electromag
accelerator demos I've seen, those things are moving *awfully* fast.
Sometimes it looks like the projectile disappears - it is moving faster
at the
get-go than your retinal refresh rate.

Noah V. Doyle