[Jonty30]

Could they, in principle, be effective replacements for bullets and gunpowder?

[camle]

where did they use a rail gun in Babylon 5?

[bert]

———rail guns are a hot area of military research -——

Translation....... sacred cow

Rail gun research should be abandoned and unused obligated funds returned to the treasury. Rail guns are a boondoggle that has lived on and on and failure after failure to actually produce.

[Ransomed]

Cool article.

“Ubiquitous in science fiction...”

Not one example from a book..? Man I really am behind the times! When someone says “science fiction,” books are the first thing I think about, not movies, TV or video games.

Freegards

[mitch5501]

I came on this thread expecting something about Big Bertha and here you all are talking about electrical dooflackies.

[archy]

Rail guns are the basis for a funny aside in Mass Effect 2. They're used in Babylon 5 and Stargate Atlantis and The Last Starfighter. And they're a devastating hand-held weapon in the Metal Gear Solid and Quake series.

Awright, which one of you cappin' rookies forgot to put Keith Laumer's Bolo novels on the list? [Not only railguns as Bolo *Hellbore* main gun armament, but *smart* guns at that....]

[archy]

Rail guns are the basis for a funny aside in Mass Effect 2. They're used in Babylon 5 and Stargate Atlantis and The Last Starfighter. And they're a devastating hand-held weapon in the Metal Gear Solid and Quake series.

Awright, which one of you cappin' rookies forgot to put Keith Laumer's Bolo novels on the list? [Not only railguns as Bolo *Hellbore* main gun armament, but *smart* guns at that....]

[Captain Beyond]

bflr