10 Most Awesome Ultimate Weapons

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Charlie Jane Anders 3/08/11 10:00am 3/08/11 10:00am g 300,734 L 272

War is hell. But an ultimate weapon is hella cool.

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Futurism

Annalee Newitz 2/04/11 10:30am 2/04/11 10:30am g 9,901 L 34

The coming space war between the U.S. and China

Futurism

Annalee Newitz 2/04/11 10:30am 2/04/11 10:30am g 9,901 L 34

The latest revelation from the treasure trove of diplomatic cables being scrubbed and released by Wikileaks involves the mounting tensions between the U.S. and China over space. Cables reveal that the Chinese demonstrations of space weaponry - shooting down a satellite, for instance - were efforts to showcase the…

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Webcomics

Lauren Davis 1/29/11 10:30am 1/29/11 10:30am g 12,623 L 41

The Egyptian pulp adventures of "Cleopatra in Space"

Webcomics

Lauren Davis 1/29/11 10:30am 1/29/11 10:30am g 12,623 L 41

The title says it all. A teenaged Cleopatra VII has been zapped to a distant future, one filled with professorial talking cats and Sphinx-shaped space bikes. She's caught in an intergalactic war — when she's not stuck in detention.

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Military Tech

Ed Grabianowski 7/31/08 8:00am 7/31/08 8:00am g 6,867 L 47

Blackswift Will Be the First War Machine In Space

Military Tech

Ed Grabianowski 7/31/08 8:00am 7/31/08 8:00am g 6,867 L 47

Development of the U.S.'s first hypersonic military space plane, the HTV-3X Blackswift, is zooming forward, with plans for Boeing and Lockheed to work together on the project. When it's ready to fly (possibly as soon as 2010), the Blackswift will give the U.S. the ability to send a missile to any spot on Earth within…

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space war

charliejane 11/15/07 11:00am 11/15/07 11:00am g 265 L 0

Super Lasers Of The Cold War

space war

charliejane 11/15/07 11:00am 11/15/07 11:00am g 265 L 0

By the early 1980s, the Soviet Union will have a fleet of space shuttles far superior to our own, plus a network of space stations and a second fleet of orbital vehicles to service them. Oh, and mega laser weapons. That was the prediction in a 1974 book Soviet Conquest From Space. How did Peter James get it so wrong?