Can't wait until this becomes refined enough to be made into a p2p style system. It would greatly increase general gas mileage on freeways and even surface roads. Also, it could potentially increase general driver safety because most people would drive far more responsibly if they were responsible for 5 other cars…

This sounds almost exactly like the questioning style police use to make an innocent person accidentally admit guilt

@Elcheecho: I did not think about the impact of sudden acceleration on sensitive electronics. However you could still use a rail gun to launch supplies for say an interplanetary mission. You could build the ship in segments and assemble them in space (using conventional rockets), then you could use the rail gun to…

@BadPlasmid: that is true, but if you are far enough away (say on a carrier 75 miles of shore) you could still hit a target 150 miles inland, and you would not have to shoot at a very steep angle unless there are some serious mountains in the way.

@Crominator56: missiles produce a large heat signature too. What's your point?

@My name is Nelson, I like to dance!: first we have to figure out how to bleed of the massive heat, or improve efficiency. Also, we had to figure out how to keep the platform stationary while accelerating the projectile (that whole equal and opposite reactions thing.

@Bramsey89: I kind of like it. It allows them to visually differentiate between the normal stories, and their bigger stories. Also, that to me looks more like consistency of design than lack of creativity.

@The Lab: I too would feel far safer sleeping next to a nuclear reactor that a missile. only one of those is designed to kill.

@Slinkytech: realistically, most of the news from Fox is perfectly legitimate journalism. The only time you run into a huge bias is with regard to politics, which is pretty much true of all media organisations around the world (and its really bad when you look at major network news here in America).

@Dys: well this technology could be adapted to launching unmanned vehicles/satellites into orbit at minimal cost.

@BadPlasmid: all you have to do is aim this up, and the parabola trajectory would give you ability to fire over any terrain. Also, it would be harder to detect because it would not have the same heat, or electrical signature of a missile. Plus the payload/projectile itself would be far more reliable and stable than a…

So in the old days, Samurai swords were rated based on how many bodies they could cut through in a single swing. I wonder how many bodies this projectile could travel through? my guess is several thousand.

@wjglenn: i was referring more to "actively being used" messy, not "college dorm I haven't emptied my trash in 3 months" messy

@streeeeetch: rofl! I have never seen that before.

@sid9221: lol. its funny because my mom is the one with a masters in civil engineering, and my dad only has a BS (he happens to be vp at his company, and my mom is an independent contractor which gives her far more free time to socialize on facebook)

My mom is a facebook pro. she has more friends than I do (she even has friends she has never met in real life, something I don't even do), she is probably on there more than I am, and she knows how much commentary is too much on her sons' profiles. My mom is awesome. My dad doesn't even have a facebook.

@ddhboy: Magenta and brown and the like can be said to exist because they are the result of constructive and destructive interference between multiple wavelengths. Atoms and molecules often reflect multiple wavelengths of light at the same time, so it is perfectly logical to say that "nonpure" colors exist in the real…

@drongch: lol. Ill probably do it this weekend. Im really quite happy with the way my bedroom/workspace is setup in my apartment. It's kind of funny that I pretty much do all my homework in the library.

@wkm001: also, how much a particular person likes sleeping. I love to sleep, and that makes it really hard to get up. I just don't understand how some people can get up at 5:30 am without any particular reason to be up that early.

@drongch: I just find it sort of dumb, because it does not make these setups seem real. they look staged because they are so clean and sterile. I mean I would not expect them to post a workspace (even if it is really innovative) that a total pigsty, but what if it has stuff on it, but everything is neat?