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Popular Science
The Real Iron Man

Edição: Maio 2008
Tamanho: 24 Mb
Formato: PDF
Páginas: 120

Sumário:
HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE

44 MAN OF STEEL
Iron Man’s fi ctional tech may soon become real. Inside a mountain lab, researchers have already built motorized suits that give ordinary people a superhero’s strength.

56 POPSCI’S GUIDE TO SUMMER
SCI-TECH MOVIES
From the gadgets in Get Smart to the gamma rays in The Hulk, we rate the scientifi c jargon
quotient of new fi lms.

58 HOW TO MAKE A DIGITAL WORLD
We break down Speed Racer to show you how fi lmmakers put together a racing movie without a single real car.

60 WING MEN
Think radio-controlled planes are toys? Not the ones that cost $12,000, fl y 200 miles an hour, and replicate Navy fi ghters nearly bolt for bolt. Inside the high-stakes hobby of R/C jets.

72 THE TABLETOP UNIVERSE
To study mysteries like the big bang, scientists re-create the universe in a lab jar. Their experiments rely on one of the biggest mysteries of all: quantumphysics.

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