{"id":3500,"date":"2022-04-06T17:10:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:10:11","slug":"repulsor-lift-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/repulsor-lift-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Repulsor Lift Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My favorite part about science fiction is the futuristic technology within the stories and the implications it could have today. A piece of technology I\u2019m most fascinated by is the Repulsor Lift, a machine in the Star Wars universe that can be installed on objects, vehicles, spaceships, or even cities to allow them to defy a planet\u2019s gravity and levitate by pushing against a planet\u2019s gravitational force. If this technology existed today, it would vastly change our lives. Commercial travel would be revolutionized by levitating cars and trains, planes wouldn\u2019t rely on the force of lift, space exploration would become exponentially cheaper and easier, floating cities and space elevators could be developed in addition to toys like the hoverboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3502\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/95113DC3-F72D-46E0-8B99-0D851C0A8712-300x128.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/95113DC3-F72D-46E0-8B99-0D851C0A8712-300x128.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/95113DC3-F72D-46E0-8B99-0D851C0A8712-1024x435.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/95113DC3-F72D-46E0-8B99-0D851C0A8712-768x326.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/95113DC3-F72D-46E0-8B99-0D851C0A8712-624x265.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/95113DC3-F72D-46E0-8B99-0D851C0A8712.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite part about science fiction is the futuristic technology within the stories and the implications it could have today. A piece of technology I\u2019m most fascinated by is the Repulsor Lift, a machine in the Star Wars universe that can be installed on objects, vehicles, spaceships, or even cities to allow them to defy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}