{"id":20134,"date":"2015-12-20T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/star-wars-tech-8-sci-fi-inventions-and-their-real-life-counterparts"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:23","slug":"star-wars-tech-8-sci-fi-inventions-and-their-real-life-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/star-wars-tech-8-sci-fi-inventions-and-their-real-life-counterparts","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Star Wars\u2019 Tech: 8 Sci-Fi Inventions and Their Real-Life Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/star-wars-tech-8-sci-fi-inventions-and-their-real-life-counterparts.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the science and technologies behind the franchise are firmly rooted in fantasy, their enduring appeal has served as inspiration for many real-life scientists and engineers. Here are some of the most notable attempts to turn \u201cStar Wars\u2019\u201d science fiction into science fact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exoplanets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a style='cursor:pointer;' rel='#custom22060' class='make_big'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.livescience.com\/images\/i\/000\/022\/060\/i01\/tatooine-planet.jpg?1321894350\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/53114-real-life-star-wars-technology.html?cmpid=514631_20151220_56511696&adbid=10153754737319144&adbpl=fb&adbpr=297408889143\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the science and technologies behind the franchise are firmly rooted in fantasy, their enduring appeal has served as inspiration for many real-life scientists and engineers. Here are some of the most notable attempts to turn \u201cStar Wars\u2019\u201d science fiction into science fact. Exoplanets Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20134","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=20134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68983,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20134\/revisions\/68983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}