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[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="t0ny"]A few years ago I was following along on an amateur rail gun project by some college student, but kind of lost interest. I had intended to build one myself, but 1. it wouldnt fulfill my fantasies of shooting a penny thru a wall, and 2. the rail gun in quake 3 was both more accessible and less work.[/quote] Slashdot has done a couple of a links to various university student projects who actually completed their railguns - the primary problem I read about is that there is a very powerful force (not sure if it's equal to the force imparted on the projectile) pushing the rails of the railgun outward while the projectile is driven forward. If you could come up with a way to circumvent this structural limitation - one of those projects wasn't far off at all through the 'driving pennies through walls' stage. --SB[/quote]