• Jayjader@jlai.lu
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    16 hours ago

    To be fair, writing at that scale (couple of atoms’ height if I remember correctly) would probably not stand up to the simple friction or wear & tear of the physical loading and firing mechanisms. Meaning if you engraved the complete works of Shakespeare on a casing, no-one could probably tell once you fired the shot.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Large bore naval rifles are not generally cased. Iowas for instance do not use cases, you write stuff directly on the shell like a bomb. They just use a shell and bags of powder.