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> it'll change society quickly

True.

> and permanently for the better.

You can't know that.



Are you saying superconducting railguns could possibly cause problems?!?


They could only cause problems solvable by more superconducting railguns, so they're a net zero at worst.


> could only cause problems solvable by more superconducting railguns

If the projectile is ferromagnetic, or potentially even just diamagnetic, a defense system involving shaped ultra-high intensity magnetic fields becomes conceivable.


When you activate the city shield, all your buildings become projectiles.



I believe ultrafast capacitors for high-energy lasers would be possible. Most likely some type of laser gatling gun configuration.


Hopefully they don't cause solar system wide loss of consciousness events.




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