And then there's the latest update to Taylor Varga:
Quote:They both looked at the workbench she was indicating. On it was a nine-foot-long piece of machinery, with an opening about four inches in diameter showing at one end. Danny bent down and peered into the thing, then straightened up again and inspected the exposed and complex workings, which included several pieces made of the superconductor.
“What is it?” he asked.
“It’s a rail gun,” she smiled.
He stared at her, then the machine. “A rail gun?” he echoed, a little weakly. “You mean, something to fire hypersonic projectiles? That sort of rail gun?”
“Well...” Linda also looked at it. “If you turn the power up, it’ll sure make the thing you put in one end come out the other really fucking fast. But that might be dangerous. It’s meant fire metal pins into the ground to hold down railway track. Like a really big nail gun, only electromagnetic.”
“A… rail gun,” Lisa said slowly, then started giggling. “Oh, for gods sake.”