Five Science Fiction Technologies That Actually Exist (Draft)

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Five Science Fiction Technologies That Actually Exist

 

High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS)

This isn’t your color laser from Star Wars, or the beam from Star Trek. HELLADS is actually a highly focused microwave beam that when applied to a single point on a target. This gives it the ability to melt metal, destroy electrics, and detonate warheads safety in air. Currently being developed by DARPA (Department Advanced Research Projects Agency) it has been successfully used to destroy mortars, missiles and small drones. The only practical problem with this technology is the size needed to power the defensive system. Requiring massive power the platform is rather large system.

 

Human Cybernetics

The human brain is the most complicated part of the human body. It gives you the ability to speak, hear, and do numerous muscle control movements per second through a complicated network of nerves and muscles. But what happens when you lose the ability to do something through damage of your nerves or lose of a limb. Human cybernetics is the research and development of cybernetic components to replace damaged ones. Some examples are cochlear hearing implants, visual implants, and limb replacement. While we are far from an actual cyborg, the step being taken to give the disabled the ability to use what they lost is a truly inspiring science.

 

Magnetic Propulsion Cannon (Railgun)

We have all played with a magnet at some point in our life. Metal stuff sticks to it, if you put one next to another they flip and stick to each other, and you should never stick one next a TV. If you have not done that last one, do NOT ever do it. But now science has developed the ability to fire rounds with magnets. A railgun works simply enough. Two rails are electrically charged and then using opposite charges back and forth it accelerates a projectile at extremely high speeds away from the rails. The main advantage to railguns verses the guns we use now is that while a gun today uses gunpowder and mechanical parts to fire, a railgun has no moving parts and in the smaller version is naturally quiet.

 

Flexible Circuits

While not entirely impressive by itself, the implications of this developement are amazing. Throughout the history of circuits there has been one common problem. They are rigid and will not bend. This limits our ability to make adaptive technology. But as time continues to push technology forward we continue to develop. Innovations now give circuits the ability to be entirely flexible. From the boards themselves down the resistors and transistors that make up each component. With this ability our technology will continue to become more durable, light weight, and easier for us to use.

 

Nuclear Space Propulsion

 

Space, the final frontier. To boldly go, where no man has gone before… No matter how long humanity exist for we will never see all of space. It is for lack of a better term endless. But before we can go gallivanting across the stars we need to be able to go faster than ever before. Rockets have a limited fuel source, and in a vacuum have a surprisingly limited trust. To truly have an efficient means of propulsion in space scientist have developed an Ion propulsion engine. Powered by a small nuclear reactor Mars would be a much closer feat.

  

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This isn’t your color laser from Star Wars, or the beam from Star Trek. HELLADS is actually a highly focused microwave beam that, when applied to a single point on a target., This gives it the ability to melt metal, destroy electrics, and detonate warheads safety safely in the air. Currently being developed by DARPA (Department Advanced Research Projects Agency) it has been successfully used to destroy mortars, missiles and small drones. The only practical problem with this technology is the size needed to power the defensive system. Requiring massive power, the platform is a rather large system.

 

The human brain is the most complicated part of the human body. It gives you the ability to speak, hear, and do numerous muscle control movements per second through a complicated network of nerves and muscles. But what happens when you lose the ability to do something through damage of your nerves or lose loss of a limb. Human cybernetics is the research and development of cybernetic components to replace damaged ones. Some examples are cochlear [cochlear?] hearing implants, visual implants, and limb replacement. While we are far from an actual cyborg, the steps being taken to give the disabled the ability to use what they lost is a truly inspiring science.

 

We have all played with a magnet at some point in our life. Metal stuff sticks to it, if you put one next to another they flip and stick to each other, and you should never stick one next a TV. If you have not done that last one, do NOT ever do it. But now science has developed the ability to fire rounds with magnets. A railgun works simply enough. Two rails are electrically charged and then using opposite charges back and forth it accelerates a projectile at extremely high speeds away from the rails. The main advantage to railguns verses the guns we use now is that while a gun today uses gunpowder and mechanical parts to fire, a railgun has no moving parts and in the smaller version is naturally quiet.

 

While not entirely impressive by itself, the implications of this developement development are amazing. Throughout the history of circuits there has been one common problem. They are rigid and will not bend. This limits our ability to make adaptive technology. But as time continues to push technology forward we continue to develop. Innovations now give circuits the ability to be entirely flexible. From the boards themselves down the resistors and transistors that make up each component. With this ability our technology will continue to become more durable, light weight, and easier for us to use.

 

Space, the final frontier. To boldly go, where no man has gone before… No matter how long humanity exists for, we will never see all of space. It is, for lack of a better term, endless. But before we can go gallivanting across the stars we need to be able to go faster than ever before. Rockets have a limited fuel source, and in a vacuum have a surprisingly limited thrust. To truly have an efficient means of propulsion in space, scientists have developed an Ion propulsion engine. Powered by a small nuclear reactor, Mars would be a much closer feat.

 

 

 

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