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12/17/2015 / By Greg White

Defense giant Raytheon wants to resurrect Star Wars anti-missile technology from the void

Raytheon is one of America’s top defense giants, which specializes in air and missile defense, sea-based radars, sonars, torpedoes and more. In the 1980s, the space-based research company developed an anti-missile defense dubbed Star Wars. In light of the recently released Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie, Raytheon has proposed new ways to better it’s anti-missile […]

12/16/2015 / By Chris Draper

How to build a Jedi lightsaber in the 21st century

The lightsaber is described as an elegant weapon of a more civilized age. Ever since it made its first appearance on the big screen in 1977, society has been itching to get its hands on a lightsaber. In the latest attempt to build a lightsaber, physicists have suggested harnessing plasma, rather than light, to make […]

12/08/2015 / By Greg White

Would it be economically feasible for the United States to build a Death Star?

In 2013, the White House responded to a quasi-serious petition to build a Death Star – a mobile mega-structure and galactic super weapon used to decimate planets in the Star Wars trilogy. The Obama administration lightheartedly denied the request, because it “does not support blowing up planets.” Humor aside, is it possible to build a […]

11/11/2015 / By Chris Draper

YouTuber fires homemade “Star Wars weapon” from the back of his car

The U.S. Navy is currently in the process of developing an electromagnetic railgun that can fire projectiles at a staggering 4,500 miles per hour. An American YouTuber, however, has beaten the Navy to it by creating his own homemade railgun, which resembles a weapon straight out of a Star Wars movie. The Youtuber, who goes by the username […]

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