{"id":34208,"date":"2017-02-05T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T23:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/could-we-bring-the-technology-in-mass-effect-to-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:44:40","slug":"could-we-bring-the-technology-in-mass-effect-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/could-we-bring-the-technology-in-mass-effect-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Could We Bring The Technology in Mass Effect to Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AQQgrumo760?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The game designers for Mass Effect have gone all out for scientifically accurate weapons.<\/li>\n<li>From rail guns to \u201celement 0,\u201d this science fiction game mirrors reality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the astoundingly stiff weaponry of 1995\u2019s GoldenEye to the alien arsenal of the Halo franchise, video games haven\u2019t always had the most realistic arms. But, in Bioware\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masseffect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mass Effect<\/a> franchise, the game designers opted for scientifically accurate weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Hill, of Nerdist\u2019s\u2019 series <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/nerdist.com\/videos\/because-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Because<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/nerdist.com\/videos\/because-science\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Science<\/a>, explores the scientific plausibility of the weapons in the Mass Effect franchise.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/mass_effect_weapons\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/mass_effect_weapons\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief The game designers for Mass Effect have gone all out for scientifically accurate weapons. From rail guns to \u201celement 0,\u201d this science fiction game mirrors reality. From the astoundingly stiff weaponry of 1995\u2019s GoldenEye to the alien arsenal of the Halo franchise, video games haven\u2019t always had the most realistic arms. But, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34208","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58850,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34208\/revisions\/58850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}