Luke's Moisture Vaporators Are Real (And Scientists Accidentally Built Them)
I remember watching A New Hope as a kid and thinking those towering moisture vaporators on the Lars farm looked pretty cool, but also wondering how they actually worked. Pulling water straight out of desert air seemed like pure science fiction—the kind of tech that belonged in a galaxy far, far away, not here on boring old Earth. Well, it turns out I was wrong about the “boring old Earth” part. ...