[anguish]

I want one of those! Can't wait to turn cans to liquid during target practice >:)

I can see a billion military applications for this kind of gun -- if they can make it stable enough.

[Born Conservative]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1418113/posts

[sandydipper]

Way faster than my '57 Chevy - but do they have a convertible?

[Semper Paratus]

Hillary wishes she some of those plates when she was in the White House.

[R. Scott]

Some more on the Z Machine here and here.

[Xenophobic Alien]

Did they clock me on my motorcycle again?

[Savage Beast]

Zorba would get a kick out of one of these things.

[Savage Beast]

Maybe that's why they call it the Z machine.

[ExpatGator]

We need one of these in orbit. Then we can rule the world, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (evil laugh). Imagine what a twenty pound inert depleted uranium projectile would do upon impact in, lets say, Pyongyang.

[Luke]

Ahhhh... the quest for speed! But can it cure cancer?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I had an ex who could hurl plates almost that fast!

[OXENinFLA]

PING.....

[BibChr]

Dean's mouth?

[avg_freeper]

"I can see a billion military applications for this kind of gun"

When I read this part:

"faster than the 30 kilometers per second that Earth travels through space in its orbit about the Sun"

I knew that we've finally reached an advanced enough state of technology that we can safely dispose of liberals.

Everyone knows that the level of liberalism has reached dangerously high levels due to the rate that universities have been pumping them out into the environment. We first tried stockpiling them in California and the North East but they've started spilling over into neighboring states.

No one likes the idea of gathering leftists up into underground storage facilities for the fear that a container might rupture allowing their ideology to seep out into public again.

But now, with a little work, I think we could just shoot them all into the sun! It's the only safe way.

[Constitution Day]

UNNNGH..

[Hatteras]

"The Z Machine is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second..."

Yeah? But how about ashtrays?

[rabidralph]

The Z Machine is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second

Hillary will probably buy one.

[Bear_Slayer]

[American Vet Repairman]

Still not fast enough to drive on I-75 through Atlanta.

[InterceptPoint]

I can see a billion military applications for this kind of gun -- if they can make it stable enough.

My thoughts exactly. I don't think that the Los Alamos National Laboratory is a place where they study astrophysics for it's own sake (e.g. "One purpose of these very rapid flights is to help understand the extreme conditions found within the interiors of giant planets in our solar system...".)

Read the first paragraph of their Mission Statement:

The mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory is national security.

I think space weapons might be the target application here. There are many other possibilities.

[Paine in the Neck]

Man! That'll snap your head back!