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Subject: OMG

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So do you guys and gals think that an Orbital Mac Gun can become a reality from the standpoint of being able to make one. I know it is impractal as no one is attacking us from space but i figure an Orbital Mac Gun can actaully work.
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  • 07.22.2007 5:24 PM PDT
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mmm mayb, but whats the point? n are u payin 4 it?

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  • 07.22.2007 5:51 PM PDT

i dont know how it works so i dont have an opinion on the matter. can someone explain it to me? maybe the books or halopedia talks about it.

  • 07.22.2007 6:54 PM PDT
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in the distant future maybe if it could shoot strong enough to go wizzing through low gravity space

  • 07.22.2007 6:58 PM PDT

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I think maybe we use it to luanch spaceships without wasting all the fuel somehow.
(i believe its magnetically propelled)
So yah build one and your done a one time cost kinda thing.

  • 07.22.2007 7:46 PM PDT

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i always thought it looked like a big shotgun

  • 07.22.2007 7:47 PM PDT
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maybe in the future every house will have a mac gun and we defend our yards against pesty parasites and birds.

  • 07.22.2007 8:31 PM PDT

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well, its like a basic rifle but be cause its in space, i assume it would use super magnets to fire the gigantic bullet just like the mag. trains in japan. i dont kow how the mac guns actually work, i've only read 2 halo books. (reach and onyx)

  • 07.22.2007 9:09 PM PDT

I really don't think that it is all that far fetched. Mac stands for Magnetic Accelerator Cannon. According to the book First Strike they fire a high velocity depleated uranium shell at near light speed. The US military already uses shells like that in their anti-armor weapons.( i.e. tanks) The only difference is that what is out there now just uses gun powder, not magnets. It really doesn't sound that hard to do, wether it is or not is a whole different matter.

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  • 07.22.2007 9:16 PM PDT
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w00t

i say its a fantastic idea!!

LETS BUILD ONE!!

Morder

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  • 07.22.2007 9:37 PM PDT
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we have already made linear accelerators

  • 07.22.2007 9:51 PM PDT
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The concept is more widely called a rail-gun. It uses magnetic resonance and opposed polarities to propel ultra light-weight particles at near light speed. The idea being that even a near weighless projectile at near light-speed has incredible kenetic energy and would: one, arrive nearly instantaneously to impact at almost exactly point of aim and two, would strike with such stored energy as to completely destroy the target struck.

The rail-gun has made appearances in other games and movies. Metal Gear Solid (for games) and Eraser (for movies).

  • 07.23.2007 1:52 AM PDT

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If the thing could go that fast i always wonder why we would be losing one shot through the bridge of the ship and its gone so wth.
I guess they just needed to extent the story

  • 07.23.2007 2:53 PM PDT
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id pay for a rail gun actually, if they were $95..

  • 07.23.2007 2:55 PM PDT

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i'll make one and sell it to u

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  • 07.23.2007 4:16 PM PDT
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Look it up. There was a thread discussing it awhile back. Oh, and the MAC gun fires tungsten if I remember what they said.

  • 07.23.2007 4:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Blazin Pheonix
Look it up. There was a thread discussing it awhile back. Oh, and the MAC gun fires tungsten if I remember what they said.


Good old element W

  • 07.23.2007 5:51 PM PDT
Subject: OMG

Too expensive. Too much technology.

  • 07.23.2007 6:45 PM PDT

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what a giant barrell with magnets spaced out that turn on an off pulling the object out. They do it with roller coasters

  • 07.23.2007 6:48 PM PDT
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There would be a use for a MAC gun.. We could use it to completely destroy any NEO ( Near Earth Objects i.e. comets and asteroids) that may be on a collison path with earth or may even come close to earth to prevent what theoretically happened to the dinosaurs.. Mass Extinction.

  • 07.23.2007 8:16 PM PDT