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Peter Diamandis on the Future of the X Prize Cup

By Seth Fletcher Posted 10.29.2007 at 12:31 pm 1 Comment

On day two of the 2007 X Prize Cup, between dealing with Armadillo Aerospaces faltering attempts to win the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge and serving as master of ceremonies for the days events, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis took a few minutes to talk to PopSci about the future of his organizations marquee event. Read the interview after the jump.—Seth Fletcher

Image Courtesy Zero-Gravity Corp

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Attack at the Speed of Light

After decades of expensive, well-publicized failures, laser weapons may finally be on the horizon. Can scientists end the era of bombs and bullets?

By Noah Shachtman Posted 05.01.2006 at 2:00 am 0 Comments

For a video of the laser in action, jump to the third page of the article.

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