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Makes me wonder about the military uses of such tech. Remember Gerald Bull and his quest to launch a satellite with an artillery piece? He later was embroiled
by djmips 5y ago
Makes me wonder about the military uses of such tech. Remember Gerald Bull and his quest to launch a satellite with an artillery piece? He later was embroiled in a project for Iraq to create a supergun that could potentially provide ICBM tech to a country without rocket tech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergun_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergun_affair
- walrus01 5y agoseemed to be going okay until he was assassinated by the mossad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull#Assassination_and_legacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull#Assassination_and_... have seen it described as the "canadian iraqi space gun", which causes some people to do a double take
- riffraff 5y agoWow I never heard of this, a real life Jules Verne story!
- andbberger 5y agohmm doesn't really have the happy ending you'd expect though
- toomanybeersies 5y agoIt was also fictionalised in a Frederick Forsyth's espionage thriller, The Fist of God [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fist_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fist_of_God