{"id":319,"date":"2004-07-02T06:33:28","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T12:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=319"},"modified":"2004-07-02T06:33:28","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T12:33:28","slug":"rail-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/07\/02\/rail-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this may not seem like &#8220;fun&#8221; to everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, <a target=\"_blank\" href\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/06\/22\/1839207&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=103&#038;tid=126&#038;tid=99\">this article on Slashdot about rail guns<\/a> got me.  Apparently, the US Navy plans to have rail guns installed by 2011.  That&#8217;s not all that far away.<br \/>\nFor those of you not familiar, rail guns are basically high-speed catapults driven by very, very powerful electromagnets.  Very science-fiction stuff.  And, the Navy plans on having <i>working<\/i> rail guns on actual ships by 2011.  <\/p>\n<p>Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this may not seem like &#8220;fun&#8221; to everyone&#8230; But, this article on Slashdot about rail guns got me. Apparently, the US Navy plans to have rail guns installed by 2011. That&#8217;s not all that far away. For those of you not familiar, rail guns are basically high-speed catapults driven by very, very powerful electromagnets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,28,30],"tags":[463,464],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-navy","tag-united-states-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}