The Christian Science Monitor offered a link to”the Worst Space Weapons Concepts Ever.”
The link connets to Space.com’s “Top Ten” pages, which has the “Top Ten Space Weapons.”
Sounds liek a bit of false advertising on CSM’s part, but the Space.com writer’s do try to titillate:
Weapons in space may seem like science fiction, but they’ve been creeping [...]
Having been accused of being a nanobrain myself, I initially took offense… Seriously, this article suggests some very interesting developments—one could use this concept to control a MEMS device that could interact with molecules chemically, but could be controlled both in terms of movement and chemical interactivity, sort of like Fantastic Voyage without Raquel Welch… [...]
Here’s an emerging sci-fi technology that’s beginning to shed some of its giggle factor — enough so that a year ago last fall, Arthur C. Clarke felt comfortable saying the following in a London Times column:
The space elevator was the central theme in my 1978 science-fiction novel The Fountains of Paradise (soon to be a Hollywood [...]