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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 Read More


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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 Read More