I find this invention will solve our problems. Just point at China, fire the gun, and all problems solved.
Just kidding, seriously what do we point it at? And what problem will it solve after it's been fired?
Also why are we not competing on high speed rail technology? Why do we always have to beat a country with military technology given how completely useless most of it is.
> Also why are we not competing on high speed rail technology?
The US competes at the top in dozens of other categories, from aerospace to biotech to software to agriculture to semiconductors to spacetech to medtech. Why should we need to compete in high-speed rail technology?
It's the last problem the US has. There's no need to dominate everything - as no nation practically can anyway - just buy Japan's excellent high-speed rail tech. If the US were going to build a national high-speed rail network, it would be best served to buy that tech elsewhere rather than reinventing the wheel, so as to save money and time. The high-speed rail that gets built in Texas for example should probably use Japanese tech:
June 2019: "Japan's 'supreme' bullet train aims to impress Texas with speed"
"The real audience for the demonstration, however, was the stakeholders of a privately constructed high-speed rail line in the U.S. state of Texas connecting the cities of Dallas and Houston."
1. I'm talking about public government projects like the space race or international highway system. Not commercial business sectors like biotech, software or agriculture. Typically governments do projects for the good of society or to compete for prestige (which offers no tangible utility) with another country. I'm thinking kill two birds and instead of building a gun they will likely never fire, build a huge public bullet train system that actually benefites society and makes America not look like a giant car mono culture.
2. My mistake, I meant the rail network infrastructure itself not the technology.
3. Not only is there no need for the US to dominate every industry. There is no need for the US to dominate at all for the industry I'm talking about and that is government projects. The rail gun serves a single purpose. Prestige, that's it. With globalization taking over the world today, firing that rail gun at any country is just bad news for everybody and unlikely to happen at all so why build it at all.
Governments should serve utilitarian needs of the people. Governments should not build projects just to one up another country. Seriously who cares if China's GDP surpasses the US... It doesn't matter in the end.
Just kidding, seriously what do we point it at? And what problem will it solve after it's been fired?
Also why are we not competing on high speed rail technology? Why do we always have to beat a country with military technology given how completely useless most of it is.