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The U.S. Military is Looking for a Few Good X-Men

The U.S. military is famous for getting inspiration from science fiction — witness the not-very-aptly-named Star Wars defense system — and now they're turning to comic books too. Unfortunately, they're learning from the bad guys. DARPA has just announced a new project called the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM), named after Magneto, one of the supreme bad guys from X-Men. And it's exactly the sort of weapon the magnetic-fields-manipulating Magneto would use: a jet of molten metal propelled by magnetic fields into its target. Could it really work? More »

4:04 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,131 views, 27 comments

Latest by RAHfanboy: @braak: "Yeah, all it required instead was turning the US from the world's largest creditor to its largest debtor." You blame more »