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[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

You can't shoot things into orbit with a battleship cannon, the acceleration is just too great for a rocket to survive. You can shoot them very high, but not into orbit.

Space guns have to be very, very big to shoot a rocket at a survivable speed.

Iraq had a space gun project, but Israel assassinated it's chief engineer.

this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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