The Conceptual Failure of Orbital Lasers (Patreon)

The Conceptual Failure of Orbital Lasers

God, from the machine. | Watch this video’s exclusive companion and get a year of Nebula + CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/jacobgeller Watch “The Failed Space Weapons of the US Military” on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-failed-space-weapons-of-the-us-military Watch THIS video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-the-conceptual-failure-of-orbital-lasers Support me: https://www.patreon.com/JacobGeller Follow me at: https://twitter.com/yacobg42 Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller Sources: Way Out There in the Blue (Frances Fitzgerald, 2000) The Faulty and Dangerous Logic of Missile Defense (Laura Grego, 2018) Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Command & Conquer Renegade X Ion Cannon: https://youtu.be/YOFKyqLdEmY Yakuza: Like a Dragon Orbital Laser: https://youtu.be/Y2Qx-b1VZr4 Additional Editing by Isaac Holland Additional Research by Phosphene Additional Production by Icarus Media Used: AKIRA, Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Andor, Rogue One, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Command & Conquer Renegade X, GoldenEye, Diamonds are Forever, Die Another Day, Redline, Tekken 7, Vanquish, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Gears of War, Gears of War 4, Gears 5, Gears: Tactics, Arrested Development, Bedtime for Bonzo, A Wing and a Prayer, God of War 3, Katamari Damacy, Halo Wars 2 Music Used (Chronologically): Swan Lake Act 1 (Tchaikovsky), Mos Eisley Cantina (Leg Star Wars 2 DS), Main Menu (007: Agent Under Fire), N.M.H (No More Heroes), Alien Manifestation (Nier Automata), Der Monde (Wolfenstein: The New Order), Invention No. 4 in D Minor (Bach, BWV 775), Frustration in Disguise (Taylor Crane), Dies Irae (Giuseppe Verdi), Mad World- Dom’s Version (Gears of War 3), Outpost (Gears of War), Kait’s Theme (Gears 5), Panama (Max Payne 3), Pleasure of Tension (Snatcher), Memory (RUINER), Paradise for One (Mike Franklyn), Clair de Lune (The Evil Within)