r/BeAmazed • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Nov 15 '25

Technology Hypersonic railgun round goes through metal plates like they are made of paper.

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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu Nov 15 '25

Sorry your..job… is to play with railguns?? And shoot stuff all day?? Fml

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u/bit_pusher Nov 15 '25

Not my job anymore, but it was an internship with a research institution while I was at university. Now i'm in the video game industry... or whatever is left of it after the past few months ("this is fine, everything is fine")

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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu Nov 15 '25

So you went from you shooting-rail-guns job to a video games job? 

flips table

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u/zechickenwing Nov 15 '25

Heard he's been floating his resumé to the female body inspector field and the gym class parachute testing sector as well.

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u/Eycetea Nov 15 '25

Are you sure it wasn't the college girls trampoline bouncing team coach?

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u/Tiny-Illustrator777 Nov 15 '25

Yall sum weirdos lmao

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u/Eycetea Nov 15 '25

Yeah... its true lol.

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u/bit_pusher Nov 15 '25

Can confirm

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u/theinterestof Nov 16 '25

creepy as hell

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u/Fluffy-Trouble5955 Nov 15 '25

Head Sunscreen Tech for the Swedish Bikini Team

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u/GrnMtnTrees Nov 15 '25

Anyone else immediately think of The Man Show with the girls on trampoline segment?

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u/MeggaLonyx Nov 15 '25

Perhaps he should apply at the NHTF, the Nation Hammock Testing Facility

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u/ParisGreenGretsch Nov 16 '25

He moonlights as a massage critic for the New York Times.

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u/spambearpig Nov 16 '25

He volunteers at the Institute for beer testing at the weekend.