Comments on: Gauss Pistol Redeux

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:28:27 +0000

Daniel V Klein – You pointed out he mis-pelt “mid-evil”, but your correction “mediaeval” is just as incorrect :-).

It’s “medieval”.

Although technically the archiac spelling once used was “mediæval”

By: Vasili Sviridov

Vasili Sviridov — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:54:04 +0000

Check out this web-site
http://www.coilgun.ru

By: TarGit

TarGit — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:15:35 +0000

I prefer mine :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzIni0klNzY

By: PocketBrain

PocketBrain — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:03:19 +0000

ten thousand times cooler than airsoft. It kinda reminds me of the security sidearm in Babylon 5. You could even hear them “wind up” as they charged the capacitors.

By: Josh McCormick

Josh McCormick — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:00:01 +0000

#12 — Perhaps he meant “media eval”? Like peasants who evaluate media? ;)

By: PKM

PKM — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 22:33:45 +0000

Very cool :) I wonder how it scales? The space constraints in the handgun form mean there can’t be that many capacitors, but with a rifle-sized enclosure and a small NiMH or lead-acid (maybe a motorbike battery) you could probably store 10x the energy.. but does that translate to 10x the projectile energy? Now we just need handgun-sized IR lasers…

Ditto daniel’s post, it’s mediaeval (or medieval, depending on whose dictionary you read)

By: Daniel V Klein

Daniel V Klein — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:58:49 +0000

Unless you really _meant_ it to say “mid-evil”, it’s spelled “mediaeval”. One of those hard-to-spellcheck words, because it it doesn’t look like it sounds…

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:30:46 +0000

It’s not on the site yet, but the price of the entire kit will be almost $400 bucks.

A little pricy for most, but hell–people are still buying the Optimus-103…

By: aoeu

aoeu — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:28:52 +0000

here's a mirror

http://muhserva.dyndns.org/gausspistol/

By: ironlizard

ironlizard — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:45:20 +0000

Now all we need is a room temperature superconductor.

By: wolf

wolf — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:12:37 +0000

even with the size and power disadvantages inherant to magnetic propulsion, I’m sure there are applications for a perfectly silent weapon

By: Josh McCormick

Josh McCormick — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:16:12 +0000

Mid-evil or medieval?

By: WarriorRocker

WarriorRocker — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:57:16 +0000

Oh noes, yahoo strikes again and makes the page go away. Any mirror?

By: Pierce

Pierce — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:21:42 +0000

I can’t view anything on the page. Whats wrong?

By: Arochone

Arochone — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:55:04 +0000

My first thought when I read this title was ‘screw up a monitor from a distance?’ (thinking gauss being the opposite of degauss…)