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Railgun is a catchall term for a device that uses magnetic fields to accelerate a piece of matter to very high speeds.
While railgun technology, if developed could have innumerable civilian and scientific uses, the thing that people are really interested in is whether you could make one small enough to use as an actual gun, but still powerful enough to level small cities.
If you get it going fast enough, a tiny piece of metal can do some enormous damage.
The Particle accelerators of the recently activated Large HADRON Collider form the largest railgun in the world, at this time.
I want one, but I haven't got the GNP of France just lying around, or a plot of land the size of western Europe, so I'll have to wait for the technology to get smaller and cheaper.
Any railgun appearing in this comic is going to contain awesomeness. I wonder if it'll be a giant, orbital doomsday weapon, or the less realistic, but even cooler man portable variety...
