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Five Guns for Wars of the Future, Not One a Death Ray
At some point in humanity's future, our military forces are going to have to fight alien invaders, angry robots or hordes of zombies. Ultimately, a bunch of infantry grunts are going to have to hold the line against the onslaught. And they're going to need guns. Awesome guns. What have the arms merchants of the world been cooking up? Here are the five guns Popular Mechanics thinks are the most promising. More »
Starship Troopers 3 Marauder
New Ways To Kill Bugs In Starship Troopers: Marauder
The new direct-to-DVD movie Starship Troopers: Marauder has promised us suicidal bugs, scorpion bugs and even new kinds of smart bugs but now we get our first look at the human bug-fighters' new toys. Check out the bulky death robot still from the DVD movie. You can just glimpse this big new fancy bug-killing machine, and its new toys, in the last ST3M trailer. Looks like there's room for one handsome devil Johnny Rico inside. Click through for a closer look at ST3M's guns and robots. More »
mad chemistry
Green Explosives Save the World Through Sustainable Warfare
If you're worried about the environment but still need to blow people up, a new class of nitrogen-based bomb materials is for you. Popular explosives like TNT and HMX react to form nitrogen oxides when detonated, the major culprits behind smog and acid rain. This is a big no-no if you're the type of warmonger who drives a hybrid tank, obviously, so weapons experts at the University of Munich devised an alternatives that are cleaner, more stable, and even more powerful than those other explosives. More »
mega crotches
Crotch weapons are the stuff of life in science fiction: You simply can't have a great fight without snapping a giant gun between your legs once in a while, or using your crotch as a finishing weapon in a ninja battle. The question is, which crotch weapon is the best? Which fires the most flaming jizz, and which can crush the most heads? Also, which crotch weapon has the element of surprise? And, for you trivia buffs, whose crotch weapon actually resides in the ass area rather than the frontal zones? Read on for the eight best crotch weapons in science fiction, and (of course) to find out which one wins the crotch weapon measuring contest.
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Whose Crotch Weapon is the Biggest, Hardest, and Strongest?
Crotch weapons are the stuff of life in science fiction: You simply can't have a great fight without snapping a giant gun between your legs once in a while, or using your crotch as a finishing weapon in a ninja battle. The question is, which crotch weapon is the best? Which fires the most flaming jizz, and which can crush the most heads? Also, which crotch weapon has the element of surprise? And, for you trivia buffs, whose crotch weapon actually resides in the ass area rather than the frontal zones? Read on for the eight best crotch weapons in science fiction, and (of course) to find out which one wins the crotch weapon measuring contest.
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weaponized orgasms
Tremble and Cry Out -- These Orgasm Weapons Are Unstoppable
What is the most devious and unstoppable weapon throughout space and time? No, it's not the Doomsday Device or Death Star — it's a weapon that delivers orgasms. Whether they mind-control you with lust or cripple you with knee-buckling climaxes, the orgasm-inducing weapon of the future will be powerful indeed. We've already told you about scifi aphrodisiacs that come from rays and parasites, and now it's time to count the ways you can weaponize aphrodisiacs and begin the orgasm onslaught. More »
Which Science Fiction Weapons Should Be Proactively Banned?
They're arguing about this over at Wired's Danger Room blog. Personally, I voted for Skynet, and for teleportation devices that fail to screen for insect matter. Weigh in on this crucial debate. [Danger Room]
They're arguing about this over at Wired's Danger Room blog. Personally, I voted for Skynet, and for teleportation devices that fail to screen for insect matter. Weigh in on this crucial debate. [Danger Room]
lasers
Navy Initiates a Five-Year Plan to Build Laser Blasters
Long range laser weapons that do more than make little red dots show up on distant objects have long been a dream of science fiction creators and the military alike. Now it looks like a true, long-range laser blasting weapon may be ready for action within the next five years. The Navy is ponying up cash for three defense contracts to build out a laser developed a few years ago at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The laser, called a FEL (for "free electron laser"), can generate 10,000 watts of power, all across the visible spectrum. That means it could theoretically be optimized to shoot through fog or cloud. The Navy wants its current contractors to develop a prototype 100 kilowatt FEL, and then later one on the megawatt level. Noah Shachtman has all the details over at his Wired blog Danger Room. [Danger Room]
iain m. banks
Welcome to the Culture, the Galactic Civilization That Iain M. Banks Built
To celebrate the release of Iain M. Banks' novel Matter, we've put together this handy primer for you on the Culture, the pan-galactic civilization whose members and ex-members are the subjects of so many Banks novels, including Matter. Not only do we have a rundown of every single Culture novel, but we've also got some important excerpts from an obscure essay Banks wrote in 1994 about the ideas behind the Culture universe. Get ready to enter a world where ships are sentient, humans live for half a millennium, and living on a planet is probably the most backward thing you can do. More »
Bhutto Shot with Laser Weapon
Talk about futuristic assassinations. A Pakistan newspaper reports that based on X-ray analysis, the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto was the result of a high-tech laser rifle. [Danger Room]
Talk about futuristic assassinations. A Pakistan newspaper reports that based on X-ray analysis, the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto was the result of a high-tech laser rifle. [Danger Room]
science art
This creepy guy is made out of decommissioned nuclear weapons parts. Artist Tony Price (1937-2000) discovered the Zia Salvage Yard at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory and used the debris in his art. The one above is my favorite, and not just because it's called "First Mutant Man Born Without An Asshole." More of Price's nuke sculptures after the jump.
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First Mutant Man Born Without An Asshole
This creepy guy is made out of decommissioned nuclear weapons parts. Artist Tony Price (1937-2000) discovered the Zia Salvage Yard at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory and used the debris in his art. The one above is my favorite, and not just because it's called "First Mutant Man Born Without An Asshole." More of Price's nuke sculptures after the jump.
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space weapons
Giant rockets fought in space yesterday when the Japanese military shot down a mid-range ballistic missile using this Standard Missile 3 (SM-3). The ballistic missile was zooming along 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Japan is the first US ally to attempt these kinds of space war moves, and they did it from a US Navy missile range off the coast of Kauai. Check out more fire and a Japanese military boat in photos after the jump.
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Japan Shoots Down Space Missile
Giant rockets fought in space yesterday when the Japanese military shot down a mid-range ballistic missile using this Standard Missile 3 (SM-3). The ballistic missile was zooming along 100 miles above the Pacific Ocean. Japan is the first US ally to attempt these kinds of space war moves, and they did it from a US Navy missile range off the coast of Kauai. Check out more fire and a Japanese military boat in photos after the jump.
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social control
A Weapon That Makes You Hear Voices in Your Head
Apparently troops in Iraq have invented an off-label use for sonic pain guns that can project a focused beam of sound at someone's head. Because the Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), pictured here, can deliver any sound at a distance, soldiers are using it to beam words directly into the ears of enemies. The idea is to make scared soldiers believe they are hearing the voice of a god — or that they're just going crazy. More about how to use this spooky-ass weapon after the jump. More »
ultimate weapons
It's been said that a real hero only needs courage and bare hands to do the job, but thankfully Wizard Magazine knows better. They've chosen the 50 greatest fictional weapons of fantasy and science fiction, and ranked them in order of just how awesome they are.
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Rock, Paper, Hitler's Handgun
It's been said that a real hero only needs courage and bare hands to do the job, but thankfully Wizard Magazine knows better. They've chosen the 50 greatest fictional weapons of fantasy and science fiction, and ranked them in order of just how awesome they are.
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