Am making a repeating gauss pistol (coil gun) at the moment and

>>33433600
You can, it'll just be less effective.

Why would that happen? Surely more solenoid would equal more velocity?

>>33433665
You would need disproportionately more power due to the resistance posed by more wire. It requires less power to put multiple coils and IR sensors in series.

>>33433600
You don't know how a gauss gun works. At all.

Each solenoid attracts the projectile, they don't repel. One large solenoid would just pull and hold the projectile centered.

A gauss gun only works because each solenoid is switched off before it is slowing down the projectile pulling it back, and switching on the next one to continue pulling it along.

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>>33433600
>/k/ of the future will argue about the merits of the latest gauss weapons

>>33435066
The only real way that it would work the way he is proposing is if you did it the way Cody's Lab did. He affixed "brushes" to the projectile and they completed the circuit and produced the magnetic field. It was probably the most energy inefficient method you could ask for.

>>33438220
Sounds more like a railgun if your conducting through the projectile.

>>33438266
Oyster kind of a mix of both. The way it was made was pretty weird. I suggest you watch it. He explains the science pretty well. The coils produced the field, but the were pieces of copper that connected to the wire along the barell, if my memory doesn't fail me.

I fucked that up. Apparently my phone thinks "it's" means "oyster"

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>>33438316

Nice try faggot you just tipped your hand and broke mollosc opsec.


How far along is our sonic weapon technology? Or are we going to have to use harpoons and torpedos against the
aquatoid molluscs (molluscoids?)

>Captcha is CRAB CASA

They're already in my house, someone dub saweel a sawarim to my post I need to blow myself up.

>>33438353
>>33433600
>>>33438316
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>Nice try faggot you just tipped your hand and broke mollosc opsec.
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>How far along is our sonic weapon technology? Or are we going to have to use harpoons and torpedos against the
>aquatoid molluscs (molluscoids?)
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>>Captcha is CRAB CASA
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>They're already in my house, someone dub saweel a sawarim to my post I need to blow myself up.


My sides

>>33438353
>not going for the obvious portmanteau of mollopsec

>>33438353
>oysters are in the same family as cephalopods and octopuses

Blows my fucking kind how a rock with goo in it can evolve into a 8 testicled critter with a brain bigger than a chimp.