Okay, so apart from all the downsides of building electromagnets this massive anywhere near a population centre:
Would a rail gun train like this actually remotely work or is it going to turn the train and everything inside into plasma due to air resistance before you think about how you slow it down again
Provided they can produce enough additional velocity to put the train on a ballistic arc through the next ring, it wouldn’t need to go that fast. I imagine it would bounce slowly as it passed through each ring.
That is until there’s a stiff crosswind and you’re fired at hundreds of miles an hour into an powerfully electrified ring of solid steel. But that won’t be a problem for you for long.
It’s probably going to kill anyone with a pacemaker or other sensitive medical technology near by, not to mention wreck phones and other electronic equipment.
Okay, so apart from all the downsides of building electromagnets this massive anywhere near a population centre:
Would a rail gun train like this actually remotely work or is it going to turn the train and everything inside into plasma due to air resistance before you think about how you slow it down again
Provided they can produce enough additional velocity to put the train on a ballistic arc through the next ring, it wouldn’t need to go that fast. I imagine it would bounce slowly as it passed through each ring.
That is until there’s a stiff crosswind and you’re fired at hundreds of miles an hour into an powerfully electrified ring of solid steel. But that won’t be a problem for you for long.
It’s probably going to kill anyone with a pacemaker or other sensitive medical technology near by, not to mention wreck phones and other electronic equipment.