US Navy Railgun Program

Originally posted by Oneness
Humans were designed to be psychopaths. Preservation of one's own species via slaughtering and feeding upon other species to the point of their extinction, wasting away resources without a thought to them could be considered insane. The lengths one will go for love or survival, are all insane. Subjectivity is psychotic. It's a matter of how psychotic, of how much you can take. That's where my genius becomes pronounced, you can put me and another man through the same trauma and guess who's going to cope better? The one who's already lost himself more.

At that point though you diminish the meaning of the word insane (not that it has much meaning in the first place) to where it's meaningless.

Originally posted by Oneness
Maybe, maybe not.

You found the equally indicative patterns pertaining to that date, indicative of animosity.

Why is it only 4/19/93 and 9/11/96 though? Nothing else works, no other date, go ahead and try. It's not Apophenia because it's not meaningless, or it's no more meaningless than anything else in this world. Meaning is the outcome superstition, of subjectivity.

No, I literally just made that up as I went and found a couple things that worked.

Originally posted by Robtard
No, I literally just made that up as I went and found a couple things that worked.

What about that do you not understand?

If you really wanted to demonstrate meaningless coincidence, you should have found another date that produces 888 after undergoing that same operation.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
You could apply the same rules to any other species and conclude that all life (or at least all animal life) is insane.

At that point though you diminish the meaning of the word insane (not that it has much meaning in the first place) to where it's meaningless.

OV; I think that the rail-gun is pretty ****ing cool, if that means anything to you.

I do feel bad for having a meltdown in your thread.

Originally posted by Oneness
Alternatively, super-sanity becomes more accurate in describing the definition of what we now deem insane.

I had a philosophy of language professor who explained that everything can't be metaphorical because at some point there must be an objective correlative on which all the metaphor is grounded. That applies here. If everything is insane and the deviation from insane is super-sane, that leads to the question of what sane is, or what is sane, and if nothing is sane then both insane and supersane are meaningless definitions.

Anyway, to get this back on track. Do you all envision this becoming a key feature of the battlefield in the near future, or will it remain (as lasers have) a fringe weapon?

Also, if it's so cheap, won't that mean other nations can develop their own?

You misunderstand, insanity is more of a state of range, variety of thought. Being more open to actions that aren't normal. Working unprecedentedly hard, for instance. Abnormal motivation to relatively moderate stimuli.

It goes from less sane to more sane in my book. Those who're disabled by the affiliation merely hold onto themselves too tightly, they can't take it.

How will this change the way wars are fought in your opinion, OV?

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Anyway, to get this back on track. Do you all envision this becoming a key feature of the battlefield in the near future, or will it remain (as lasers have) a fringe weapon?

Also, if it's so cheap, won't that mean other nations can develop their own?

Originally posted by Mindset
How will this change the way wars are fought in your opinion, OV?

On land, it's harder to say, as the railgun's range will be more limited, but the teenage boy in me (pause) thinks that it will mean Gauss cannons and thus higher K/D ratios for American military forces.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
If it works as advertised, it will make non-stealthy missile boats obsolete, which form the backbone of the Chinese and Iranian navies. I.E. anyone we might conceivably fight will be more ****ed than they already are.

Its firing mechanism is similar to the vac-tubes for the 2,000 mile per hour transcontinental subterranean vac-trains they built in secret.

Originally posted by Oneness
You seem to be mistaken in underestimating the human mind, in your disbelief you've rejected the fact that psychopathy is actually a cognitive stimulant as opposed to otherwise. Unreasonableness is just a way to get more of what you want out of people.

In the contrary, you've decided that you don't condone people who govern the US and you call them lunatics out of convenience. If we go by your claims they are so reasonable that we're actually safer in a world submitted to their whims. They are so good at their job that they are the better rulers.

Think about it, you're making an argument about 9/11 being obviously an inside job, but it's so clean despite being "so blalant" that they got away with it. And that's one of the "noticeable" conspiracies, think about all those that are so subtle that you can't even grasp despite paying attention. To control every random factor in 9/11 so it still happens it's almost godly. The fact you think so much about this proves that in your mind, you respect them and you put them above human life, because you keep elevating their practice.

Originally posted by Oneness

Its firing mechanism is similar to the vac-tubes for the 2,000 mile per hour transcontinental subterranean vac-trains they built in secret.

If you somehow know about it, then it obviously isn't a secret.

Did we kill link yet with this mechanical monstrosity?

No, none of you follow orders very well.

Originally posted by Bardock42
No, none of you follow orders very well.

Quiet you, your demise is imminent. 😈

Looking at another article, apparently there are a lot of limitations for the railgun. For one thing the barrels wear out rather quickly, and for another thing only a few Navy ships can generate the power required to operate them.

They better develop superior energy generation devices in the next 20ish years then.

These are the ships that can use them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer