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05
Jun

Man Plans Launching himself 20 Miles into the Air using Rail Gun


Stretch a carbon-fiber bowstring 24 feet along a rail, fire up a jet turbine with 1,350 pounds of thrust, hit a trigger, and pull 10 gs as his craft, modeled on spaceships from Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, shoots to the stratosphere. He’ll plummet back to Earth using hydrogen peroxide rockets

This really just seems like a guy trying to get a jump on this years Darwin Award by nominating himself before the act…I do enjoy how he mentions that this might be a way to launch sky-divers into the air…making the airplane and fule it consumes useless…but alas we get to the point about modeling his ship from Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica…end of the day, a CrzyMan…Welcome to CrzyLand

-Nic

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