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    7 months ago

    You can’t shoot things into orbit with a battleship cannon, the acceleration is just too great for a rocket to survive. You can shoot them very high, but not into orbit.

    Space guns have to be very, very big to shoot a rocket at a survivable speed.

    Iraq had a space gun project, but Israel assassinated it’s chief engineer.