Two reporters visit an Oakland shipping container housing a legal "space gun" made of plastic tubing that fires metal projectiles at four times the speed of sound. Surrounded by a Chuck E. Cheese, homeless encampment, and water treatment plant, the device aims to launch payloads into space, raising questions about oversight and whether it will actually work.
It's apparently entirely legal to build a giant gun in the middle of a city. Because here we are in Oakland, California, inside of a shipping container. And here is some plastic tubing that can fire off metal projectiles at more than 4 times the speed of sound.
I tell people there's a Chuck E. Cheese's, a homeless encampment, a water treatment facility, AAA, and a space gun.
That's the cluster we're in. Why would anyone need such a big gun? And why would anyone let this guy be in charge of it? Well, this is about sending stuff to space and betting on— wait for it— a long shot.
