Abandoned Space Guns

So it seems there have been a couple attempts to use giant guns to launch objects into space.

The image above is of project HARP, a project that was started by the American and Canadian defence departments and abandoned in 1967. The guns are now just sitting around in the Barbados jungle. These seem to be the most IDM examples of space guns. More info here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/07/03/project_harp_a_giant_space_gun_in_barbados_is_now_abandoned.html

The guy who built these also tried building some for Saddam Hussein, in a project called Project Babylon. He was assissinated before finishing the project. It seems that what was built is now sitting around in war museums in the states. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon

The general wikipedia page for space guns is pretty fascinating too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun

Had to.

Look at the poor abandoned thing

  On 9/2/2013 at 6:59 AM, yshf said:

Had to.

lol. Ages 3 and up??

One could make a track using samples the Space Gun makes when the trigger is held. Also, he's right about its resemblance to the gun Deckard (Harrison Ford) uses in Blade Runner

Oh, were we talking about abandoned howitzers from the 1960s designed to shoot things into orbit?

I'm not sure which kind of space gun is more idm.

EDIT: Space doo doo pistols, etc.

  On 9/2/2013 at 8:11 AM, Root5 said:

I'm not sure which kind of space gun is more idm.

 

EDIT: Space doo doo pistols, etc.

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...amarite?

But using ballistics to launch objects into space is still pretty awesome. And that the technology for this is rusting away in a jungle is IDM as fuck.

(Jungle space gun) - (gun) + (too much acid acid) =

so sad

Most IDM 2014 contender!

From the beginning of the wikipedia article:

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Not to be confused with Raygun, a type of gun common in science fiction. For other uses, see Space gun (disambiguation).