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It Takes an Hour to Load This Dart-Blasting Minigun but 9 Seconds to Empty It
Hasbro tends to design its dart-firing Nerf blasters to look like toys, or classic sci-fi props, with performance geared towards keeping kids safe. Grown up dart blaster enthusiasts, by comparison, strive to create absolutely terrifying, over-powered, foam-flinging weapons. The latter approach, thanks to YouTuber GatlingTommy, has now yielded a fully functional replica of the military’s…
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NASA’s DART Asteroid-Smashing Mission Changed the Course of Planetary Defence
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid and altering its orbit, in a pioneering test of planetary defence.
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NASA’s DART Spacecraft Successfully Moved an Asteroid
For the first time ever, humanity has changed the trajectory of a planetary object, reducing the asteroid Dimorphos’s orbital period.
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Why DART Is the Most Important Mission Ever Launched to Space
Later today, NASA’s DART spacecraft will attempt to smash into a non-threatening asteroid. It’s one of the most important things we’ve done in space — if not the most important thing — as this experiment to deflect a non-threatening asteroid could eventually result in a robust and effective planetary defence strategy for protecting life on…