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Tag Archives: star wars
The Odds of Successfully Mining Asteroids
The Hoth asteroid field, which Han Solo improbably and awesomely navigates, is chock full of asteroids that contain valuable minerals and materials, including platinum. While I doubt there are any exogorths (space slugs) or mynocks (the winged parasites that live … Continue reading
Posted in Could this Happen?, space, technology
Tagged armageddon, asteroid mining, asteroids, deep impact, ESA, JAXA, leviathan wakes, NASA, planetary resources, platinum, resources, star wars, the expanse, water
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Off to the Drone Races
One of the most iconic scenes from Return of the Jedi is the Endor speeder bike chase. Who could forget Luke and Leia whizzing through the forest, bumping into storm troopers and send them crashing into trees in a shower … Continue reading
Posted in Could this Happen?, drones, technology
Tagged drone racing, drones, endor, fat shark, FPV, phantom menace, return of the jedi, speeder bikes, star wars
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Microsoft’s Holographic System Will Project More Than Princess Leia
When I first watched R2D2 beam a hologram of a distraught Princess Leia onto a tabletop, I was more interested in how I could get my hands on that technology than I was about her problem (don’t judge—I was little … Continue reading
Posted in Could this Happen?, technology, virtual reality
Tagged holodeck, holograms, hololens, microsoft, star trek, star wars, virtual reality
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Here to Serve
The Star Wars cantina scene demonstrates how awesome it would be to sidle up to a bar (preferably on some kind of bounty hunting mission) and order a drink from aliens. Attack of the Clones features a robot waitress, which … Continue reading
Posted in Could this Happen?
Tagged ai, attack of the clones, china, conveyor belt, dalek, Dalu, ipad, itray, Japan, order, replacement, robo-waiters, robot restaurant, south korea, star wars, thailand, tips, waiters, Yo Sushi
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The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out
The recent discovery of a habitable, earth-like planet has renewed buzz and speculation not only about the possibility of humans living on other worlds, but also about whom or what else is living out there. Are there Vorlons out there … Continue reading
Posted in Could this Happen?
Tagged agar, discovery, elegans, gravity, interface, kepler, liquid, planets, radiation, reproduction, royal society, science, sesame street, soil, space, space colonization, space travel, star wars, stephen hawking, szewczyk, weightlessness, worms
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Uncle Sam Wants…Who?
Imagine meeting the Terminator on the battlefield. You might try and run–that is, if it didn’t kill you while you were pissing yourself. What about an army of Terminators? A common image in science fiction: massive armies of identical robots … Continue reading
Posted in Could this Happen?
Tagged alphadog, armed robotic vehicles, army, ARV, boston dynamics, clone, clone wars, cylon, DARPA, drone, iran, Iraq war, kurzweil, MIDARS, MULE, P.W. Singer, robot, santa, sentience, soldiers, star wars, stealth, TED, terminator, UAV, UGV
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Make Your Next Car a Beamer
Ever taken a much-needed break and found yourself thinking that a beer would be the perfect thing–if only you didn’t have to get up and get it? There might be a solution…in space. We may not be ready to beam … Continue reading
Posted in Could this Happen?
Tagged beam, Bessel beam, electric, electromagnets, IAC, lasers, magnetic field, me up, millennium falcon, NASA, optical tweezers, optical vortex, particles, rings of light, solenoid beams, space, spacecraft, star trek, star wars, tractor beam, vacuum
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Doing the Time Warp
Have you ever noticed that humans seem to be waiting for aliens to visit us, rather than the other way around? The reason for this is the commute. At its closest, Jupiter is roughly 390 million miles away. Alpha Centauri, … Continue reading
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Tagged b5, Babylon 5, battlestar galactica, BSG, dimension, drive, faster than light, FTL, hawking, hyper drive, hyperspace, interstellar, jump, millennium falcon, space, space travel, star trek, star wars, time travel, travel, warp, wormhole
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