DBWI: Urban Projects That Never Should've Been Built

The serria rail gun.


I know that's going to be incredibly contraversal for any space enthusiasts and I get and understand why building it was important.

A conventional space launch costs 20 million dollars, to send 2,000 tons into the air, the serra rail gun can send a ton into space for the cost of about 200,000 dollars per launch and this includes the price of labor, the reusable capsiles, and maintaining the nuclear plant and the three rail guns that are used. Thing is I live in that area and I have to listen to it being used.

Imagine a sonic boom going off once an hour every hour, and it does not stop. Sure its great for nasa, its great for space tourists, and for any one in the industry but for the people who live around the mountain they used to make the thing? It sucks hardcore.
 
Have you ever tried flying out of Maplin Sands Airport, east of London? It’s a nightmare - you’ve got to battle round the London Ringways to get there and then you have to crawl up a too-small Bridge onto a complete eye-sore of a man made island.
 
The Chicago World Trade Center...for God's sake this is literally a glass pillar that's 2,300 feet tall, and it's an eyesore to anyone visiting Chicago. How can anyone deal with this?
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