I got a better idea, don't read it. It ruins space combat for you.

I'd also advise using a brita filter or something, then again I have the most ridiculous hard water in my apartment. I sponge down my bathroom walls every month to get rid of the yellow streaks.

Don't capacitors and flywheels get angry if they are disturbed?

Several is a bit of an understatement. Wolfram is saying 981KM, then again that is all acceleration taking place on the rail, and you aren't just using the rail as a "first stage"

You're wrong, it wasn't 250,000 it was 500,000 Purple Hearts manufactured.

Is linking to Goat.se (sp?) not a good reason?

Like Junior Mints?

Ok, but you could have done a better job at clarifying that in your original post, because I've seen that wording before and it means blame darky

I'm willing to bet we've known about that we just didn't have the materials that could actually do it though.

There's a lot to be said for ignorance, bunch of kids playing around my do something that is considered stupid or that'll never work by experts.
TV Tropes has a few real life examples.
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