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Re:NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites i... by __init on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:41PM (#31032999)
They made _vacuum tubes_ survive 20,000g during WWII [1]. Modern military applications have guidance computers packed into individual bullets [2]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze#Improvement_in_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_bullet

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