This is why longer barreled rifles typically have a much greater range than short barreled handguns using the exact same cartridge. The longer the accelerating force can be applied to a projectile, the higher the muzzle velocity will be when it exits the launcher. (Laser weapon technology still has limitations, but that’s a whole different discussion.) The nice thing is that it doesn’t use chemical explosives to accelerate a kinetic projectile to very respectable velocities. Except that bit of electrical discharge passes through a conductor which moves and can be used to fling a projectile. It’s somewhat related to the Jacob’s Ladders that are sometimes seen in old movies featuring a mad scientist of some flavor. However, nothing came of it and we moved on to other things, but the idea had stuck in my writer’s brain.Ī real railgun, as you can read about on Wikipedia or see in numerous Youtube videos, uses electromagnetic forces (Lorenz Force to be precise) to accelerate a projectile. We thought we had a research proposal in the making.
This would require putting it on an airplane. (Not because it was useful, but because it would be fun to have a one-shot millimeter-sized launcher that would require an ultrafast laser to trigger.) Then we talked about putting a railgun as a micro-satellite launch system. I thought they were cool and admitted to wanting to build a miniature-scale railgun using semiconductor industry techniques in grad school. Because that’s what you do at parties.Ī few months previously, I had gone in to talk with my old postdoc mentor and he asked me what I thought about railguns. Specifically ship-to-ship combat and I shared an idea that I had been playing with. So I was at a party with Ty Franck and talking about science fiction. But we finally have permission, so here it is!
He talked through this with me years ago, long before we were producing the show, but it’s taken this long to get his guest post written and up because he’s an actual scientist who works on government projects and we had to be sure he wasn’t violating any non-disclosure kind of stuff. Reiten about the technology behind the railguns in The Expanse universe. Hey all, we have a guest post from writer and scientist M.T. We are only halfway through the season and In the meantime, keep watching and (hopefully) raving - and making noise.
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Talented cast and crew who put their hearts and souls into every episode.Īlcon TV Studios is doing everything they can to find continued life for the series. The passion of our fans has been matched only by the passion of the incredibly I'm still trying to put my head around it. Story, the characters, the look, the sound, the audience engagement, the reviews,Įverything were clicking like The Expanse. But I have never been on a show where the So when the end came it was okay because we’d said what we wanted to say and I've been on shows that had good, long runs, I've been on shows that were so awful and so awful to work on, that I would pray forĬancellation (mercifully granted). And if they ever do continue it and the mystery resolves in a good way, I'd probably class this as one of my top TV shows of all time.I guess now we really all are Belters. If I'd known from the start that the intergalactic mystery would end up sidelined and unresolved, I'd have really enjoyed the show for what it was and not felt disappointed at the end. Yet despite that, I still think it's absolutely worth watching, because it is a great show for the interesting characters and political intrigue (like GoT in space, except nowhere near as brutal) - just make sure you know that's what your getting. I felt disappointment akin to watching a six-season detective drama where they never reveal who did the murder, why they did it, or how they did it. Up to the end of season 6, the show fulfils the promise of the political drama, but not the promise of the intergalactic mystery. I was gripped by this show primarily for the fascinating intergalactic mystery, but then was also gripped by the intense, well-scripted political drama. I recommend watching this but with a HUGE caveat - the caveat being you have to be happy with the idea that a major (arguably THE major) plot-line never gets resolved (as of the end of season 6, anyway, with is supposedly the last season).
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