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P.S, Jules Verne published a work in 1865 on a large Coumbiad cannon that shot a projectile with 3 men in it to the moon.
I'm thinking not. I'm not sure of the pressure of the air trapped in the bore hole but I know it would have provided some insulating qualities from the shockwave behind it.
Well, it was a nighttime test. 10:35pm so that could very well be true. It shouldn't be too difficult to figure out the direction it left in and the distance it should have traveled since then. It works out roughly to .00014 light years. At that rate it will reach the closest star to Earth Proxima Centauri in roughly 32,000 years. Assuming it was aimed in that direction. Which proved my point to my son. If the fastest we can get would take 32,000 years to get to the next star. This isn't an 18 month round trip to Mars with a stay on the surface in days. This is, you leave your own planet with everything you need so that in 160,000 generations your offspring could arrive on a world that could very well no longer be there.
You know, unless one of you guys has a flux capacitor sitting in your scrap pile.
The diameter of the tube was 4 ft and the thickness of the slug was 4".Seems like if it was travelling much faster than a free-fall object then it would vaporize fairly quick, especially since the atmosphere is the most dense closest to the surface of the earth...
On the other hand, at that velocity perhaps it passed thru the atmosphere so fast it didn't have time to vaporize? Hmmm
-Mark
PS I'm wondering what the diameter of the plate was?