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				At <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BURNING MAN" title="Click here to read more posts tagged BURNING MAN" href="http://io9.com/tag/burning-man/">Burning Man</a>, the annual arts festival, mutant vehicles plod across Nevada's Black Rock Desert. And this year's art cars include a fully-functional spider walker, a remote-controlled trilobite, and a mobile mammoth skeleton.				<a href="http://io9.com/5356886/burning-mans-evolutionary-mutant-vehicles/gallery/" title="Click here to read more about Burning Man's Evolutionary Mutant Vehicles">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:38:55 PDT]]></pubDate>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Davis]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Secret Origin of the Ray Gun in Science Fiction]]></title>
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				 We've told you all about our favorite rayguns, blasters, flechette pistols, and laser guns <a href="http://io9.com/347844/all-the-best-futuristic-guns-for-your-holster">before</a>, but where did they all come from? Laser pistols are as identifiable with science fiction as rocketships, aliens, and robots, even though the first laser wasn't invented until 1960. So what spurred science fiction writers to start arming their characters with atomic blasters and disintegrator rays?				<a href="http://io9.com/371411/the-secret-origin-of-the-ray-gun-in-science-fiction" title="Click here to read more about The Secret Origin of the Ray Gun in Science Fiction">More&nbsp;&raquo;</a>
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			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:00:28 PDT]]></pubDate>
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