{"id":158032,"date":"2023-02-14T22:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/could-we-build-orbital-defense-platforms-today"},"modified":"2023-02-14T22:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:23:32","slug":"could-we-build-orbital-defense-platforms-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/could-we-build-orbital-defense-platforms-today","title":{"rendered":"Could We BUILD Orbital Defense Platforms TODAY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Could We BUILD Orbital Defense Platforms TODAY?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYn04L5E3Q0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Railguns, Coilguns, Gauss Cannons, MAC Guns, what does it all mean? This week we\u2019re exploring the topic of Electromagnetic weapons. From Halo to just Science Fiction in general, they\u2019re a staple due to their cool designs but also because of how close we are to building them today. We\u2019ll look at a few of the weapons we see in Halo as well as some real world experiments and designs showing just how close we are to having MAC Guns in space ourselves!<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or comments, leave them in the comments section below. I\u2019d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter!: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBigCabezon\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBigCabezon<\/a>.<br \/> Join the Discord!: <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/nKDWRtBtYg\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/nKDWRtBtYg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Halo \u00a9 Microsoft Corporation.<br \/> Halo Infinite OST \u00a9 Gareth Coker, Joel Corelitz, and Curtis Schweitzer.<\/p>\n<p>The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railguns, Coilguns, Gauss Cannons, MAC Guns, what does it all mean? This week we\u2019re exploring the topic of Electromagnetic weapons. From Halo to just Science Fiction in general, they\u2019re a staple due to their cool designs but also because of how close we are to building them today. We\u2019ll look at a few of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}