How the US Navy Is Turning Sci-Fi Warfare into Reality
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | January 8, 2018 03:51pm ET
In the past 100 years, humanity went from fantasizing about ray guns to actually seeing some go "pew pew" for real.
Lasers are just one of several technologies that the Office of Naval Research (ONR) highlighted for Science Fiction Day, which took place last Tuesday (Jan. 2). Here are four real-life technologies that were once only dreamed about in fiction.
Lasers: These have been a common trope of science-fiction books and comics since the 1930s, although modern audiences will remember them best from franchises such as "Star Wars" and "Star Trek." In real life, the ONR began sponsoring research in the 1950s that helped develop the first lasers. (The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.") [7 Technologies That Transformed Warfare]
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