VA Tech professor touts radical new advance in weapons technology

St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 3 October, 2012 | Kurt Hofmann

[Secret Agent Man]

they are both the man. two lesbians imitating two old men. well you can’t get any yummier than that. /s

[buffaloguy]

One of the questions on the certification test for chemistry teachers is to balance a chemical equation that starts out:

Kno3....

I cracked up when I saw it as I was drilling my wife for the test. It is the equation for the firing of black powder. Texas is a whole different country.

[marktwain]

A man-portable power source capable of generating the energies needed to make something equal to even the common rifle isn't even on the technological radar screen.

I am not so certain. Electrical propulsion is potentially so much more efficient that an electrical equivalent of a 9mm sub-machine gun might be able to run off of lithium ion batteries. Not that there are significant advantages that I can see. I ran the energy numbers once, and if you can convert the electricity to velocity at 80 percent efficiency, you got quite a few shots out of ordinary batteries. It is the conversion process that is difficult, but I can envision a sort of rail gun using electromagnetic shuttles that offset each other.. Guns are a very inefficient heat engine.

[Mad Dawg]

Only a Ph.D.could be so stupid.

[SIDENET]

OH LAWD!