Date: 5/10/2013 21:23:33
From: wookiemeister
ID: 408201
Subject: Rail Guns
I’ve been thinking about rail guns in the last 5 minutes
wouldn’t the most effective rail gun be one that doesn’t have a physical connection of the shell with the barrel
wouldn’t it be easier to have the shell have some superconductor bathed in low temp fluid sat inside it and make the shell magnetic in such a way that it floats inside the barrel
you then have a series of coil along the barrel that draw the thing forward like the slug in a solenoid