Space Guns Don t Work (But We Built One Anyway)

Before we had rockets like the Falcon 9, we had other ideas of how we might shoot for the moon: space guns! Hosted by: Reid Reimers For special, curated artifacts of this universe, check out https://scishowfinds.com/ ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.pbs.org/how-we-got-to-now/blogs/howwegottonext/space-guns/ https://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Smartlet.htm http://www.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/td/td2003/gilreath.pdf http://thescipub.com/abstract/10.3844/jastsp.2017.249.257 http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/645284.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=mr1GDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA218&lpg=PA218&dq=martlet+2&source=bl&ots=uLxhpTvoW5&sig=qv9RCQhJo2Rlgz2fMqRUE19fx3Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5gu_yhLbZAhVk2oMKHfiqAxEQ6AEIgwEwDg#v=onepage&q=martlet%202&f=false Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1889_Verne_poster.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amazing_Stories_July_1926.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_voyage_dans_la_lune,_by_Georges_M%C3%A9li%C3%A8s.ogv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trebuchet2.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Harp.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abandoned-HARP-Gun.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Light-gas_gun.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AEDC_Range-G_Launcher_facility.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Launch_of_Falcon_9_carrying_ABS-EUTELSAT_(16510241270).jpg