(two years from now) "Zero-point energy field manipulator" seized in Japan
It's made with duct tape
Have etymologists ever conclusively settled on whether the term "duct tape" or "duck tape" came first?
Yes. Duck tape came first. The original iteration of the product was cotton duck cloth with an adhesive backing.
That's what I figured, but I remember hearing something about some people objecting to this and insisting that "duct tape" came first after all.
Incidentally, "duck" in this case is cognate with, among other things, Norwegian duk meaning "tablecloth" among other things.
I think it's originally from the Dutch doek for canvas in English
Yup
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@ReadFanon@hexbear.net Did you happen to sneeze at any point in the past hour?
I've been snoozing lol, I don't think I sneezed but I could have slept through it :)
Ohhhhh I hate this.
The person who tweeted this, Jake Hanrahan, isn't someone I trust and I'd encourage other people to be cautious about him and his work. He's too cosy with the agents of imperialism, he doesn't strike me as a person who is anything more than aligned with the left (mostly) due to opportunism, and personally I'm kinda waiting on his Tim Pool arc.
I don't understand what this has to do with trust. This is just a regular news story whose existence is easy to independently confirm. Here is a link to the actual story on NHK.
I'm talking about trusting him and his work, not the tweet.
Unlimited doohickeys on the LDP 
Japanese guns are crazy I love them
Are those fucking screwdriver heads? LOL
Do look like Phillips bits
I too, have seen Phillip's bits
the first military use of a small-arms railgun will be made of duct tape and PVC and will be used to kill Shigeru Ishiba a decade after he retires
pouring one out for a hero that could have been
Death to America
completely silent too
Probably not if the bullet is fast enough, right? Air rushing into barrel, or bullet breaking the sound barrier
A coilgun that size isn't going to be making anything supersonic. I would be genuinely surprised if it even matched the force of something like an airsoft gun.
Honestly this thing looks like a hobbyist toy more than a weapon. Like it might pose a risk of eye injury if fired towards someone, but I wouldn't expect it to even break skin at close range. Unless it's got some absurdly strong capacitor bank powering it and is very well designed it's just not going to put out much force at all. At that scale a railgun might honestly be a better bet for "an at least somewhat dangerous handheld electric projectile launcher", because the problems with those (the surface of the rails oxidizing after a shot or two, so they stop making a good connection with the round and can't fire) only start cropping up when you get to really high velocities and higher power flow.
Fumio Kishida right now: 
Hasn't DARPA been working on something like this for decades?
Oh you can build one out of literal trash from the 90s.
It's just... So there's a lot of energy in gunpowder. Like, a lot. And even being super inefficient and losing a ton if that energy, it's really good at pushing stuff. Its just naturally good at exploding, and over the years, we occasionally make it even better at exploding.
And we have some pretty good batteries but they really dont compare.
And then, you know, you need to release a shit ton of energy all at once right? And batteries aren't very good at that. Even if you make them be explosives instead of batteries, they still aren't anywhere near as good as gunpowder at that.
So you also need a capacitor. Which is more stuff.
And you've still got a really weak gun, and you need to charge it between shots-not just the battery, but the capacitors(?) In a way you can't really just rotate out-notice how there are three sections of wire there? Thats three thingies to accelerate the slug, which each need a quick (and super well timed but thats not usually a problem AFAIK) boop from a capacitor. So you can't fire fast for long even if youre carrying a huge battery. And overheating is a huuuge problem, because remember what heat does to conductivity. They are not friends.
So you can't use it in a sustained fight you can't (as easily) hurt someone armored and you can't make your dick feel big with it. Which are most of what militaries care about.
If I recall correctly there's also the issue of ballistics. The artillery rail guns have the projectile encased in a sabot AFAIK, something you can't really do in a anti-personnel version, especially if it's handmade. Unless you choose to make a shotgun, and then it's just a 
with extra steps.
Edit: I just reviewed some wiki articles and sabot isn't really the right term. But whatever.
There are tutorials on wikihow! But finding a disposable camera is a bitch nowadays.
And we have some pretty good batteries but they really dont compare.
I feel like Samsung had a grip there on leading the development of batteries that explode
Not as well as gunpowder. Its really good at exploding; even Samsung batteries are talented amateurs.
AFAIK what the military has been researching are large (naval) railguns. Coilguns are a novelty with minimal utility (note that the actual principles involved in them are used in real things, but mostly for accelerating things along rail systems, not as guns or cannons), but railguns have some promise in pushing the upper limit of what artillery can do (and AFAIK what they were focused on was specifically a hybrid system that would launch a shell with conventional propellant into a railgun barrel that would then accelerate it even harder) because they can get things moving faster than gas can expand and put more force on a projectile than conventional propellant alone could without having a building sized barrel to accommodate the force.
Ultimately the project made a big fixed emplacement that could launch a projectile faster and harder than any other system, but which was both logistically infeasible due to it rapidly destroying its own barrel (a seemingly intractable problem with railguns is that at high power levels the surface of the rails oxidizes and the rails themselves can warp), and obviated by missiles largely replacing the role of artillery along with "what if we could put a single shell somewhere near a target even faster than a missile, once, and it would take an entire ship dedicated to this task" turning out to not be as useful a niche as sci-fi brained military officials thought it would be fifty years ago.
(note that the actual principles involved in them are used in real things, but mostly for accelerating things along rail systems, not as guns or cannons)
[Legendary - Success]: Schwerer Gustav, but you don't shoot from it, you shoot it.
I truncated that down a bit because it was already getting a bit too wordy, so I skipped the examples. That would be things like some roller coasters using electromagnetic launch systems over conventional chainlift hills, aircraft catapults on carriers to get them up to speed fast enough to take off, some trains use them for propulsion, etc. It's a really good way of making a big fixed system push things along quickly for definitions of "quickly" that include accelerations humans can comfortably survive, it's just not very good at making a small and portable system for launching projectiles very fast at a speed that a human on the other end of the equation wouldn't comfortably survive.
To be fair if I'm launching the actual schwerer gustav at things I don't think "human that rides on it could survive" is high on the priority list
From what I know the only practical military application of coil guns would be artillery. It's quieter than conventional artillery and also produces no flash or smoke. Small arm coil guns seem hilariously inefficient unless you poison the round or something.
There's a coil shotgun on the market that has a muzzle energy of about 85 joules. For comparison an average pistol will be around 550 J. A 5.56mm rifle is around 1800 J.
This is a toy right? These models can only hit like pellet gun velocities yeah?
Yeah that coil is way too short to impart any serious amount of acceleration.
No idea on that one, but you can definitely engineer railguns with off the shelf parts that can be put out similar energy to .22lr I think.
Saw a video recently of someone creating a homemade railguns that could, if set up properly, exceed the Irish govt's firearms limitations.
Hell, just searching YouTube I saw a bunch claiming "1.5KJ" which (depending on efficiency and projectile ballistics) could impact similar energy onto a target as a 9mm handgun, if my duck duck go-ing serves me right.
I can put out the same energy as .22 with my mind alone but that's cool.
"In Japan they have a gun that kills the memory of a man." -some tweet I saw when Abe was killed.
Had they not made it look like a gun no one would have known what it was.
Top tier post
Oh wait this is that Jake Hanrahan dipshit who collaborated with sex pest Andrew Callaghan to try to promote anarchist militias in Ukraine fighting alongside Azov, fuck this guy. Don't post him. Find another source next time.
Incidentally also a tight collaborator with Robert FedvaNSA
And he made that pisspoor Q-anon anonymous podcast. Used to like him until I started reading books.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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