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Could you shoot something into space with a big gun? Probably not. But could an intelligent person do it? Prepare yourself for the unforeseen consequence's of Gerald Bull's dream.
"The "Supergun" affair was a 1990 political scandal in the United Kingdom that involved two businesses, Sheffield Forgemasters and Walter Somers, Dr. Gerald Bull, (then) members of parliament Hal Miller and Nicholas Ridley, the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service, a failed prosecution, and components of a "supergun" (as newspaper headlines had it) that the businesses were alleged to have been exporting to Iraq that they and others had contacted the government about in 1988.
The collapse of the court case preceded the Arms-to-Iraq case, that involved a different company Matrix Churchill, by four months.
Canadian engineer Gerald Bull became interested in the possibility of using 'superguns' in place of rockets to insert payloads into orbit. He lobbied for the start of Project HARP to investigate this concept in the 1960s, using paired ex-US Navy 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun barrels welded end-to-end. Three of these 16"/100 (406 mm) guns were emplaced, one in Quebec, Canada, another in Barbados, and the third near Yuma, Arizona. HARP was later cancelled, and Bull turned to military designs, eventually developing the GC-45 howitzer. Some years later, Bull interested Saddam Hussein in funding Project Babylon. The objective of this project is not certain, but one possibility is that it was intended to develop a gun capable of firing an object into orbit, from whence it could then drop onto any place on the Earth.[citation needed] Gerald Bull was assassinated in March 1990, terminating development, and the parts were confiscated by British customs after the Gulf War."
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Pog

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No.

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[@RSLpunk]

It’s about time someone shot space...sitting up there acting like it’s so vast and deep

[@robbieperry136]

@@Comical1984 he's saying we shot space. because SPACE was acting all vast and deep

[@darksu6947]

Holy poop that was funny!

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DårK Šøûł holy poop indeed

[@darksu6947]

This is a very deep comment thread

[@RSLpunk]

DårK Šøûł I believe u mean it’s a vast and deep comment thread 🤣🤣

[@bplup6419]

Couldn't have been the CIA. He actually died.

[@olliegoria]

Dad’s old name for them in the Army was “Clowns in Action”

[@based_prophet]

Fact jfk

[@based_prophet]

@@olliegoria god army what was his iq 46

[@based_prophet]

@@olliegoria only rejects join the army

[@olliegoria]

pistol breath PSSE-B. He was working in the Eastern Bloc while the CIA trafficked coke into their own country and dealt arms to Iran. Thank you for the respect, asshole.

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

Seeing this video while unlisted makes me feel special, despite what my parents tell me.

[@jonathansanchez319]

I’d hope not I was almost there myself

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

@Mycel What? No! They named me Superfilgis Asspickings!

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

@Mycel Yes, they did, but back when it was a special name. I'm the reincarnation of the European who helped found Jamestown and married Pocahontas. I can understand your confusion, though.

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

@Mycel Nah, I helped cause it. It was during and before the colonozation of America. Besides, when you think of John Smith, you think of that person who killed Native Americans and was forced into marrying a Native American so it looked like we didn't hate Native Americans (aka me).

[@audo6848]

I think they'd agree that you're special

[@unknownuser3926]

Man, crazy how he managed to shoot himself three times and the back and twice in the head. Must have been a tough guy.

[@yes-gs2rd]

they never said it was suicide ?

[@davidleitch2298]

He ran backwards into 5 stationary bullets

[@Morbpious]

@@yes-gs2rd asassinations are commonly passed off as suicide

[@5446isnotmynumber]

@@Morbpious What is assassination ive never heard such thing

[@Jame5man]

Textbook suicide

[@e.a.forrest1968]

"I suppose it depends on how cool you think space guns are versus how much you dislike Saddam Hussein" - Previously unsaid sentences in human history

[@theshit2070]

99th like, bummed i wasn't the 100th.😂

[@CinemaDemocratica]

"And if you're still depressed, you can cheer yourself by thinking of the time that a Japanese porn star flew a kamikaze mission into the home of a Yakuza don because a defense-aerospace firm was trying to bribe the Prime Minister -- and also follow me on Twitter."

[@concept5631]

​@@CinemaDemocratica I'm assuming thats from his Yakuza video.

[@Zodroo_Tint]

People like to forget Saddam was a US ally before the gulf war. His only sin was he wasn't able to win against Iran. At least in the eyes of the USA.

[@junkiejackflash]

Fun fact: Sadam Hussein once donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a church in Detroit, and was then awarded a key to the city because of it. As of the 2000s, the church's minister said Saddam was a very kind person, but maybe that "money and power changed him as a person."

[@Ebani]

Seems like that was the case, even his mechanic says he preferred how things were back when Sadam was the ruler. All of it being US propaganda to get Iraq's oil while destabilizing the region, fuck those guys.

[@cortex8239]

@@Ebani britush

[@junichiroyamashita]

Well,having to live with his son Uday rampaging through the street was more than enough.

[@eamonia]

...and of course it was Kwame Kilpatrick who gave it to him. I remember back when he was mayor. Fun times...

[@bsadewitz]

Wow, I recall when that happened, I think. It made national news.

[@chriswouse7713]

There’s a section of this gun at Duxford air museum. Made by Forgemasters in Sheffield. Was shipped as “drainage parts” Yeh rifled drainage: give those turd some spin!

[@alexanderheard3157]

Theres another bit in Fort Nelson in Portsmouth.

[@eamesaerospace2805]

We rifle our waste to make it move faster!

[@sexyxenomorph]

The section the Duxford is smooth bored though. Perhaps it was going to be rifled but it wasn't and isn't.

[@kokofan50]

Space guns aren’t rifled. That spin would be a giant problem.

[@whatitis5646]

kokofan50 what do you mean? I want to spin my bullets to the point the gun becomes a fragmentation device.

[@DapperBadger]

Here while the video is technically unlisted. Feels like forbidden knowledge....

[@markstevenson432]

Me too. It’s great! I feel like a Spy....that or someone who’s got absolutely nothing better to do but stalk Qixr’s channel! 👍

[@grifm.5224]

@@markstevenson432 :(

[@dylanmullback851]

What does unlisted mean

[@Kctian]

@@dylanmullback851 doesn't show up in searches or recommendations.

[@Naderium]

Why is this comment from 3 years ago?

[@NICK....]

NASA: We've spent millions of dollars and 6 decades of research and testing to perfect rocket powered space flight This madlad: Haha big gun go *_BOOM_*

[@loodytheleprican3079]

I read the book In crazy russian hackers voice😂

[@hideousruin]

Might have been a bit more engineering to it than that.

[@_Curanes_Rex]

So, you're suspecting NASA to have killed him? Just for vengeance?

[@NapNapLeGrand]

This was a great video, Moreover I think we should destroy Carthage.

[@strangent404a7]

I too have the overwhelming and anomalous urge to destroy Carthage

[@nottelling8129]

Get away from SCP-2513

[@matthewzakrzewski1797]

CARTHAGO DELENDA EST

[@FloatingOer]

I am of the opinion that the CCP should be destroyed.

[@TyrinsClips]

Yes. Good video indeed. Moreover, I am of the opinion that Carthage should be destroyed.

[@purplehaze2358]

I feel like an obsession with shooting things into space with a big gun is one of the more unusual lifelong passions you can develop, and I respect that madlad all the more for it.

[@ShihammeDarc]

Your name makes this comment funny

[@TomKappeln]

I worked on the Supergun that was planed to deliver to Sadam in 1990, not knowing i did. The barrel was declared as pipeline parts .... When i started questions for what in hell a "pipeline" had to be this high grade steel (i made the spectroscopy) i earned problems .... It was a company in Hessen/Germany

[@minorcomet282]

And then everyone clapped.

[@TOBAPNW_]

@@minorcomet282 this isn't exactly dubious. Even if they were making this up; to what benefit? They didn't stop or attempt to stop its construction or shipment, they just (purportedly) raised their eyebrow.

[@fibber2991]

​@@minorcomet282 your mom's cheeks

[@akronred648]

My father(an aerospace engineer) loves telling this story. One thing about Project HARP: it was so powerful it caused minor earthquakes throughout the surrounding area, causing no end of grief to the local populace.

[@bsc4344]

some sort of test firing, dunno if it was with this gun or diff project of his, launched from in Que . to test range in vermont or something, wasn’t it? Cross border and the like, didn’t know if to believe or not.

[@SakaraCoyfox]

I just have a funny mental image of 5 different assassins from different countries all shooting the guy at the same time, just staring at eachother, nodding slowly and walking away

[@jonas1015119]

Two years ago I was researching for a uni presentation on the WW1 Paris gun, on which Bull had quite literally written the book. I stumbled across his biography and almost made half of my presentation about him because the story is so insane. Finally someone is making a video about it.

[@OrinEldridge-l4u]

Average Paris gun enjoyer.

[@JeremyKShort]

Gerald Bull and Werner Von Braun: They just want to send stuff to space but keep having to make weapons.

[@kid4375]

I feel like a broke coke head receiving 200$ when I get that “tales from the bottle” notification

[@davidsargeant3705]

The first gun that was built in 1961 was located in Barbados .when they fired it off it shook the foundations and cracked the wall's of buildings within a two mile radios of it's location. There are still remonence of the old gun that still remain in place to this day.

[@franciosdeaeruiu7555]

>mossad, MI6, or the CIA So basically Mossad

[@FiryaFYI]

XD makes sense

[@andrewescocia2707]

I feel like mossad the cia or mi6 would have been able to buy him back, had to be iran or possibly iraq.

[@BadgerScrub]

@xX_EpicProGamerVsSociety_Xx It's almost as if it happened again, to another scientist, by Mossad a few days ago... I swear, the only thing Israel exports are assassinations.

[@aleksc4376]

Definitely Mossad

[@komrade223]

Bull's developments to conventional artillery should not be understated. He was getting crazy accuracy and range out of existing platforms with some modifications. He was able to compete with big, multinational, arms companies because of the upgrades he was offering to existing systems.

[@kaissner289]

I love the take of the game SOMA on the supergun technology, specifically in SOMA there's an underwater research station where they build and design satellites and do overall research to anything marine related since they are in the bottom of the sea, there they have a gigant "space gun" its cannon goes from the bottom of a marine trench up to the surface and the payload is launched using magnets every X amount of meters, increasing it speed exponentially, and realistically it would be possible to do

[@smokeshowwalrus3478]

Kaissner that is actually how railguns work however I see no reason a railgun can’t be a supergun

[@biackshibe]

a railgun, and an ending worth crying over.

[@kaissner289]

@@smokeshowwalrus3478 yeah! It technically would count as one since you will be shooting something to orbit

[@gabbyn978]

You forgot some physical issues, like the enourmous pressure the water exerts in a trench. That gun would be squished like a piece of straw.

[@happydemon3038]

@@gabbyn978 But adding weight to the bottom of the structure than the top is much less of an issue. They could just beef up the walls on the bottom of the barrel. And considering it's a static structure, there's no need to make it maneuverable, so they can make it as bulky as they want.

[@drackestalentorgen166]

I "love" how assassinations happen, wars happen with paper-thin motivations or none at all, etc and etc...all this thing...(no im not defending anyone) how the powerful can kill anyone anywhere before and during war and there is never consequences, especially if they are "the good guys".... so much fucking murder going around...

[@LTPottenger]

The system is set up for criminals to corrupt it from the start, the whole thing was a scam.

[@Cyberwool]

The unlisted tag makes me feel like Eve enjoying the forbidden fruit

[@Arionid]

the forbidden tangerine

[@sci_pain3409]

the disallowed pear

[@CitizenSnips69]

The cursed coconut 👻☠️👺

[@alonelyperson6031]

The unholy banana

[@Stephnist]

The H.A.R.P. gun in Barbados sits on the Barbados Defense Force base next to the Grantley Adams International Airport. Which is why you see a plane in the photo with the gun. It apparently broke windows, since its a smalll island with residential housing along the airport roads which lead towards the gun but that is anecdotal. The gun currently sits retired and rusty on a paintball arena within the Barbados Defense Force grounds. If they are firing guns down range the paintball arena is closed and they have a spare arena that overlooks the range shooting perpendicular to them, but looking directly towards albeit far from the arena that is normally used.

[@markstevenson432]

Hey Qxir, why is this video on the Tales From the Bottle playlist, but it isn’t listed on your channel videos? A trick? A Qix-Trick? Hmm 🤔

[@rodrikforrester6989]

it was unlisted for a bit

[@alpha_ks8366]

Why is this comment posted 3 days ago when the video was just posted 9 hours ago

[@mcvoid7052]

@@alpha_ks8366 Unlisted videos tend to do that. Essentially, you cant get the video unless it was given to you via a link.

[@alpha_ks8366]

@@mcvoid7052 so thats why

[@jjcoola998]

@@mcvoid7052 oh like with patreon early releases and such?

[@46Bax]

I usually don't comment but right now I am in a very difficult place and your videos are one of the few who lift me up. I love your comment and your brutal honesty, ex when you said 'I would use the metric system but most of my followers are American.. So yeah. As long as you keep uploading, I will keep watching. I don't wanna say I hope you upload more videos soon cause I don't want you to go down the rabbit hole of uploading daily (bad, quality) videos, but whenever I see your videos. Fuck this never mind this post is getting too long - anyways keep up the fun

[@justtime6736]

The metric system is for idiots that can't do math.

[@theshit2070]

@@justtime6736 Wholeheartedly agree, keep using it for bullets 😂😂

[@penguin-IDK]

i agree i love these videos!

[@davidfrank1344]

Was working at Forgemasters when this pipe order using high grade steel came in - we on the shop floor thought the order was ovewr spec'd. Then the shit all kicked off, miss the beer allowance.

[@isseihyoudou6733]

My aunts father actually worked at one of the companies hired to manufacture the barrels for the babylon! Its his favourite story to tell, really cool to see this video!

[@nickwolfe483]

Ah yes, the balance of life, our love for space guns vs. our hatred for Suddam Hussein.

[@olliegoria]

Many wars have been fought over this

[@mohamedelhaddade6371]

Saddam Hussein was not that bad

[@olliegoria]

@@mohamedelhaddade6371 like to hear you say that to the kurds

[@mohamedelhaddade6371]

@@olliegoria they are a problem long before Saddam existed...Saddam did too little in term of them in my opinion

[@olliegoria]

Mohamed Elhaddade you are fucking sick.

[@Mobscene_CDN]

Isn't it impossible to attain orbit with an object launched from a gun on the surface? It would have to have some sort of propulsion(like a smaller rocket like you mentioned) for once it's out of the atmosphere. I could be wrong of course, but unless the object can attain escape velocity right away, it would eventually just come back down without some assistance once in space.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Look up on the dude and his works...

[@isaacwright407]

The US built a space gun on accident once during nuclear bomb testing, so it's definitely possible. Dropped a bomb in a hole half filled with water, the explosion and steam launched the steel lid into space with so much speed that it was only captured in one frame of a video camera as the lid warped before disappearing. Excluding the particle accelerator it still holds the record for fastest man made object in existence. Edit: my memory wasn't totally accurate, but here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/hITIfWiZa5qpY8k

[@Bruh-zx2mc]

You're correct. An impulse maneuver doesn't change the part of the orbit that the maneuver happens on - that part of the orbit is anchored. If that part of the orbit happens to be in the atmosphere or on the surface as with a cannon, it won't achieve orbit. It'll either come back down, or if fast enough, never return. Having a second stage was always necessary for orbital payloads and not just an optional thing as it's framed in the video.

[@sovietspuds6480]

I have been watching your videos for a while I really like how you portray these story's, so keep up the good work.

[@bsc4344]

I had biked most of the way to the other side of my continent when I met this guy Mr Catchpaw. Told me about this guy Bull he had worked for/with. How Bull had a hand in making a revolutionary high speed wind tunnel, sat defeating IR camo paint the yanks liked, how they planned to launch sats . into space by big cannon. Found out later how he made howitzers wildly more efficient for little more coin and a kit upgrade approach (Israel benefited for their defensive war apparently), and how he was brilliant artillery designer who used the vacuum of a shell in flight somehow to make it go farther and truer somehow. Being naive and clueless, I thought he was a nutter and was polite with the man. I couldn’t fathom the internals of a sat. not SQUASHING FLAT from force of canon launch, so figured he made stuff up. Few months after I was back home and finished the pedalling, front page news that Bull was assassinated in France... was dumbfounded, he was a real guy and Catchpaw had told the truth. I met the most interesting ppl and learned the most interesting things on the trip, not just the mysterious Mr C and Mr B. What an eye opener after the fact however, unmatched to this day. In my little hole of the world, the country ppl consider “insignificant “ all the time, there’s this one guy with massive achievements... sure made me think.

[@BrassSpyglass]

I'm surprised you didn't include the tidbit where the HARP gun was just two battleship guns welded end-to-end.

[@richardorsulich4698]

The fantastic G5 and G6 used by the SADF were Bulls designs

[@benjamincornier4268]

My guy got a sponsorship, this makes me happy.

[@huggleskuishy]

“Big box of puppies to Iraq” Lmfao

[@ryderbond7966]

I don’t think I click faster on any other KZbinr’s videos

[@hateexmachina]

HBO made a TV movie based on this back in the 90's, 'The Doomsday Gun". It's quite good if i recall correctly.

[@1bulak]

i honestly think the idea is worth revisiting with recent tech, considering rail guns are a thing now

[@onebillionhp8287]

Poor Gerald, while he was thinking about the cost/kg for launching, the agent was thinking about 124 grains x5

[@SenileOtaku]

My first summer job was at Space Research (mainly doing maintenance and other jobs around the complex). Down the hall from my dad's office in the Engineering Building was one of the prototype satellite projectiles, in a display case.

[@rangerjones5531]

I'm from Texas, so I absolutely love the idea of big guns. Someone needs to start this back up, so many fun possibilities. Makes my pumpkin gun seem lame...

[@friedrichderhohevonweedman6093]

Really sad that we'll most likely never see an space gun. Since playing Soma I would love to see something like the OMEGA Space Gun.

[@packerman1203]

There’s a spacegun in the underwater horror game SOMA, using it is one of the main objectives of the game I guess, loved that game

[@bakarana455]

I like how he used the british imperial jack on 5:01 lol

[@commander31able60]

one of Gerald Bull's guns is a plot device in the Frederick Forsyth novel _The Fist of God_ .

[@mikelefate1621]

Glad to see you getting more subs man, you deserve it! Next stop, one million

[@mastergx1]

Me (while pouting, shouting in a childs voice and thumping my fists down) "I want a space gun"!

[@Selmarya]

2:55 lmao Dude be commiting war crimes like its 1999

[@johntaylor-lo8qx]

I've never heard this story!!! I watch a ton of doc's so bravo. Thank you, please keep these coming. Absolutely must watch !!!

[@johnladuke6475]

Okay, I'll stick around for the ad because of that segue. A man who assumes that I will be assassinated but also refuses to ask why is a man I like.

[@lavo-ld4wm]

Thank you for the video! I remember seeing this film "Doomsday Gun", with Frank Langella as Dr. Gerald Bull

[@DavidJCobb]

1:18 funnily enough, the first-ever sci-fi film, the French "A Trip to the Moon," had the astronauts launch themselves to the moon this way

[@PicnicAtTheTesco]

My dad almost foiled the plot. He was a sales manager at Corus steel and took the order for the steel used in the barrel, but noticed the grade was far higher grade than what is needed for an “oil pipeline” which was the request. His manager told him to get on with his job and the rest is history.

[@newpy2247]

I tell you no lie... I'm on a Quxir binge this is my 20th video in a row

[@johnj8639]

I can’t imagine any satellite would survive the acceleration or initial explosion from firing, and Max-Q would happen likely at a low altitude, so not only does it need to survive the pressure but it also needs to not melt, even if he could solve all these problems I can’t see it costing much less than an actual rocket considering all the exotic materials that would need to be made for the payload to survive.

[@nejsonsvejson9861]

You're just not open minded enough.

[@stephenwalters4798]

I had a length phone conversation with Gerald Bull once. He was telling me about his book "The Paris Gun". I think he was going to send me a copy.... The Bull design was for a gun with multiple chambers, detonated as the shell went past, in an attempt to make the shell hypersonic. This is pretty well what the Germans did with the V3 in World War Two. Superguns are impractical weapons as they are not mobile, not target agile and VERY vulnerable to air attack and sabotage. Very large cannons, which would be capable of being elevated and trained, were also planned. The first was to have a bore of 350 mm (13.8 inches) and a barrel length of about 30 metres (100 feet), and it was expected to have a range of up to 1000 kilometers (about 625 miles),[2] making Israel and central Iran well within reach of Iraqi artillery fire. fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/other/supergun.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon www.bbc.com/future/article/20160317-the-man-who-tried-to-make-a-supergun-for-saddam-hussein

[@andrewmorris483]

I was always under the assumption that he got killed by Mossad. I don't know why, it just seemed like it was.

[@gusblessen5915]

I'm here to confirm the rumors are true, I have been romantically involved with a supergun while married.

[@Forestdude9000]

The most tragic thing is they couldn't distinguish a space program from artillery.

[@davis4555]

Your drawn videos are the best! Love your style.

[@rocketman48]

I enjoy your videos,im biased and Irish but to talk about this Supergun I saw parts of it on the quay in Portsmouth.I was as interest in this as I was in Victory.Great story with a bad ending.Keep it goin.

[@Rida_K]

Saw one of the big Babylon barrels myself, reckon it'd be a cool waterslide.

[@GhostBear3067]

In the original Voyage to the Moon Jules Verne wrote that the capsule was launched at the moon out of a cannon built by gun makers bitching about needing a way to make money since there was too much peace at the time.

[@drewrappo]

Dude you're one of my favorite content creators. Your content and videos are always quality and interesting. keep it homie love your shit.

[@FelixBrehh]

Hearing you pronounce HARP convinced me to subscribe, thanks for these incredibly unique and entertaining videos!

[@RussellRadio]

Your video made me realize how much I want a supergun in my back yard. Imagine the size of the potatoes I could chuck.

[@zendikarisparkmage2938]

This was a wild story! Thanks for sharing!

[@A-Forty3707]

Jerald: makes a company named "Space Research Corporation" Also jerald: makes guns for nation

[@jondoh2226]

If that many badass, unhinged agencies could potentially want you dead, then you probably shouldn't be living in a normal apartment.

[@fmesser100]

I had an opportunity to work for Bull. He developed a extended range 155 mm artillery round. Space Research was located on the Vermont/Quebec border.

[@a0zhar]

Cap

[@tcuz486]

Love your videos man. Have a great day.

[@pizzaishear7873]

Agreed

[@KowboyUSA]

My supergun is secured in my trousers. Bada-bing-bada-boom!

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

1:35 those white things are detaching from the rocket are called solid rocket boosters they are reusable. And a orange tank in the middle gets destroyed by the atmosphere when it re-enters.

[@Captain_Yorkie1]

Big Gun = long range Bigger Gun = longer range Super Big Gun = Super long range that goes to Space. This Canadian Madlad is a GENIUS!

[@cerebralm]

Don't lose hope, if we manage to make a permanent moon base it will probably have a spacegun! Or even a "space train", a maglev launch rail as long as you like. These ideas make a lot more sense on worlds with no atmosphere.

[@WhaleManMan]

When the US hears that there's oil in space.

[@hatiskalli1954]

as a german i am impressed and ashamed that we didn't have the supergun idea first. i mean we are the guys with dem phat railway guns.

[@user-mf4gr8vz9f]

😧

[@dlfhtr-o8x]

There is an 800mm german railway gun missing from history. Bet thats where it went.

[@c-dubb3505]

Dude, ur absolutely hilarious!!!! I Love ur content and ur artwork!!!! Keep it up Lad!!!!

[@swettyspaghtti]

Keep that content coming ! Fav channel for sure.

[@flapjackfae]

This is how Jules Verne got his rocket to the Moon. Why am I just learning about this video today?!

[@creativeengineer8365]

The poor man just wanted to shoot a satellite into space

[@marcusaetius9309]

The general consensus is that Mossad assassinated Bull. The Canadian government responded to the assassination of one of it’s citizens with; “ ummm errrr…maybe he just tripped and fell on those bullets…”

[@TheLurker1647]

It’s an absolute shame what happened to him. I remember watching a documentary on him on Canadian television back in the 90s.

[@pyrix]

Woo, a new Qxir video to watch~

[@Sasucake]

Spin launch (Pvt space company in US) has modified the idea and created a propelled launcher that spins around to build up kinetic energy to fire payload into space

[@AaronShadowMoses]

Even though I've binge watched every video, I always come back to listen so I can sleep.

[@jamesmason8052]

The thing about space is that it contradicts the 2nd law thermodynamics. You can’t have gas pressure without a container, the gas would fill the space

[@rautamiekka]

Long story short: *the concept is physically impossible.* Longer: You can't put enough power into the launch even with additional rockets, 1 massive problem being there's no way to protect the launchable object to sufficiently withstand the acceleration forces.

[@maximthemagnificent]

In the early 2000s, I visited the remains of Bull's Vermont research facility in the small ski town of Jay on "Space Research Road". Was nothing but a couple burned out cinderblock buildings. Disappointing.

[@luv2luv720]

What a cute box of puppies!! I love your drawings lol

[@manjsher3094]

The great Mr Bull. Canada's greatest hero.

[@AudieHolland]

Wait, his company would send stuff into orbit for a mere $1700 per kilogram? Can't let that happen...

[@Driver-qt9jh]

You should do the Hillsborough disaster, on of the few mass incidents from overcrowding

[@aeureus]

Hey, I'm a complex person, but when I see Qxir upload, I click. No questions asked.

[@bobthompson4319]

Launching it in the gun with a rocket is called a rocket assisted projectile. And zumwalt class ships where supposed to have them for their guns but they found out that a projectile was more expensive than a missile capable of the same thing.

[@xiro6]

fun fact,the projectiles from the Paris Gun were the first man made object to reach space(more than 100km altitude)

[@coolkidsklibgaminggang_8275]

First time a crazy ass story like this starts with a Canadian

[@aaronpatten7310]

Space gun + space X re-entry systems= awesomesauce