https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
On Mon, Dec 6, 2021, 8:30 PM professor rat <[email protected]> wrote: > Reminds me greatly of Gerald Bull's cannon launching system. > He was a renowned expert in military cannons. He did serious experimental > work on launching satellites this way from a location in Canada. He sought > funding to take his ideas to the next stage but was apparently blocked by > U.S. interests. To survive he took a contract from Saddam's Iraq. The > Israeli Mossad did not like it and told him if he continued he would be > killed, which they did a few months later >
