{"id":179064,"date":"2023-12-25T02:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-uncover-the-secret-to-building-star-wars-style-laser-weapons-but-dont-worry-we-wont-have-a-death-star-anytime-soon"},"modified":"2023-12-25T02:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T08:22:22","slug":"scientists-uncover-the-secret-to-building-star-wars-style-laser-weapons-but-dont-worry-we-wont-have-a-death-star-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-uncover-the-secret-to-building-star-wars-style-laser-weapons-but-dont-worry-we-wont-have-a-death-star-anytime-soon","title":{"rendered":"Scientists uncover the secret to building Star Wars-style laser weapons \u2014 but don\u2019t worry, we won\u2019t have a Death Star anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-uncover-the-secret-to-building-star-wars-style-laser-weapons-but-dont-worry-we-wont-have-a-death-star-anytime-soon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s infrared lasers are only powerful enough to disable aerial targets, but scientists now have the keys to building high-powered laser weaponry that can \u2018melt\u2019 distant targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s infrared lasers are only powerful enough to disable aerial targets, but scientists now have the keys to building high-powered laser weaponry that can \u2018melt\u2019 distant targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179064","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}