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