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Re: Out of left field comment
Posted By: Quirel	Date: 5/9/12 2:34 a.m.
In Response To: Out of left field comment (padraig08) : I don't know much about architecture, but I always enjoy a building or : structure that seems kind of like a puzzle. That building for example (and : another I always used to stare at ) I always imagined them serving some : greater purpose, like artillery guns or a death star laser. Suck it moon, : welcome to Earf! You guessed right the first time. In the early 20s, a far-right faction in the British government met with heads of industry, particularly arms dealers, and decided that Something Must Be Done about the Bolsheviks before they spilled out of the borders of Russia and incited a rebellion in the homeland. The solution was to secretly construct a 180 cm artillery cannon that could place 25-ton shells in low orbit. Their muzzle velocity could be tuned to the Earth's rotation and atmospheric parameters, allowing them to strike anywhere within the Northern Hemisphere. With a CEP of two miles, it was thought that four shells fired simultaneously had a strong chance of destroying the Kremlin in the first volley, and the Soviet Union would be left leaderless. While construction began at Battersea, Hitler rose to power, and the designers began wondering if Berlin could be targeted. Unfortunately, while half the station (And two of the cannons) were completed before the war broke out, doubts were raised as to whether the cannons would survive firing intact. As London was already strewn with rubble from the Blitz, and later from the V-weapons, it just wouldn't do to recklessly risk adding more. The war ended, the guns remained unfired, and Ian Hogg was dispatched to Germany to report on Nazi advances in artillery technology, a trip whose results were nothing short of enlightening. While the designers mulled over base-bleed technology and rocket-assisted projectiles (No, really!) construction of the latter half of the artillery system commenced, and a coal gasification unit (More German technology) was installed to generate propellant. For a short time in the early 1960s, Gerard Bull was brought onboard to assess the feasibility of the project. What contributions he made are unknown, but it certainly influenced his later work, namely Project HARP. This actually proved to be the undoing of the Battersea "Power Station", as the Soviets took notice of the American project and traced the technology back to the British. The Station was decommissioned in accordance with secret provisions of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in the early 1970s.

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What does Halo have to do w/ 1950s Universities?	Beckx	5/8/12 12:41 p.m.
doesnt seem misplaced to me	nillapuddin	5/8/12 1:02 p.m.
Re: doesnt seem misplaced to me	OldNick	5/8/12 2:54 p.m.
Brutualism	Miguel Chavez	5/8/12 2:07 p.m.
quick follow up	Miguel Chavez	5/8/12 2:10 p.m.
Re: Brutualism	Beckx	5/8/12 2:37 p.m.
Ehh...	Nikko B201	5/8/12 2:53 p.m.
Re: Ehh...	Beckx	5/8/12 2:56 p.m.
Futurism	Hawaiian Pig	5/8/12 6:08 p.m.
Re: Futurism	Hawaiian Pig	5/8/12 6:18 p.m.
Re: Futurism	DrDoctor	5/8/12 6:57 p.m.
Re: Futurism	Quirel	5/8/12 10:14 p.m.
+1	ZackDark	5/8/12 10:18 p.m.
Re: +1	Hawaiian Pig	5/9/12 12:31 a.m.
Out of left field comment	padraig08	5/9/12 12:51 a.m.
Re: Out of left field comment	Hawaiian Pig	5/9/12 12:58 a.m.
Re: Out of left field comment	Quirel	5/9/12 2:11 a.m.
Re: Out of left field comment	Quirel	5/9/12 2:34 a.m.
Re: Futurism	Beckx	5/9/12 3:21 p.m.