The Real Star Wars

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACEUploaded 19-07-17Anti-Satellite weaponry, giant X-ray lasers and kinetic impact missiles nicknamed the “Rods from God.” Find out about the history of the real star wars that have been waged over the past 50 years. Get a one month trial of The Great Courses Plus at http://ow.ly/e5be30beNu3You can further support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetimeGet your own Space Time t­shirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBiTweet at us! @pbsspacetimeFacebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetimeEmail us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] comComment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetimeHelp translate our videos! https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?tab=2&c=UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7gPrevious Episode:Solving the Impossible in Quantum Field Theoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8YThe decades directly following World War II were a time of optimism in many ways. Industrialization was finally improving quality of life for a lot of us, science was making incredible bounds, and our sights were set on the stars. It seemed to many that we were on a trajectory to a space-faring technological utopia. The United Federation of Planets was just around the corner. But the possibility of a much darker space age also loomed: one in which the space around the Earth became highly militarized, and in fact massively weaponized.Written and Hosted by Matt O’Dowd Produced by Rusty WardGraphics by Kurt RossAssistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike PetrowMade by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)Comments answer by Matt:RosieisaBosshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y&lc=z12wdnazlyb0dtblw22fhbgb4lmrvfrleNicholas Aiellohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y&lc=z13rcftxeprthjkmc22cstaploneybp2sZach Crawfordhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y&lc=z13kd3wg4v3tx1xvo23jwrwzrorah5jfaNuclearCraft Modhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y&lc=z13xurhbopmywd4ue22lvzujjnm4cpifjLophathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y&lc=z12bhbf4irfzfxqw204chxarfyncfdqgbng0kOnlyNameLeftHerehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ1WZ-eJW8Y&lc=z130j5qprnr2up0tj23us1qrqxyeyhr3zSpecial thanks to our Patreon Big Bang, Quasar and Hypernova Supporters: Big BangCoolAsCatsShane RobinsonDavid NicklasEugene LawsonJoshua DavisQuasarTambe BarsbayMax LevineMayank M. MehrotaMars YenturJoshMark RosenthalDean FuquaHypernovaChuck ZegarJordan YoungRatfeastJohn HofmannJoseph Salomone Martha HuntCraig PetersonScience Via MarketsBarry HatfieldThanks to our Patreon Gamma Ray Burst Supporters: Peter DurocherMichael KersChris HicksMark VasilePatrick MurrayJustin LloydSultan AlkhulaifiAlex SetoConor DillonJared MooreMichal-Peanut KarmiBernardo HigueraErik SteinDaniel LyonsKevin WarneJJ BagnellJ RejcAmy JieAvi GoldfingerJohn PettitShannan CatalanoFlorian StinglmayrYubo DuBenoit Pagé-GuitardNathan LenizJessica FraleyLoro LukicBrandon LabonteDavid CraneGreg WeissThe Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally.