10 Crazy Space Ideas Which Almost Came True

This ugly rusty pipe could have solved the trouble with space deliveries in a fairly ecological way.

No, that’s not a mythical weapon for time-control over Obama’s presidential time, but something entirely real. It’s the work of a Canadian fellow named Gerard Bull and it may have been inspired by From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. HARP was supposed to be a huge weapon, capable of firing satellites directly into space (as long as they have no tech by Apple, because it would probably not stand the stress).

The shocking bit is that the US denied the opportunity of having a colossal gun, so Bull saw himself pushing his services to Saddam Hussein. The dictator liked the idea, financed smaller prototypes and was ready to build The Big Babylon – a gun more than 150 meters in length and 1 meter wide. Prior to that, though, he attacked Kuwait, which provoked Israel to send their special ops against the Iraqi weapon delivery people. That’s how Bull ended up with 5 bullets in the head and for understandable reasons – the project fell through.

10 Crazy Space Ideas Which Almost Came True

Project HARP