While being slightly "off topic", Fend Jiawei, a Chinese guy, recently patented a seemingly unengineerable crazy-looking "unmanned space fighter", as exemplified by CN102826227 patent, filed last august 22 2012. At first sight, this chinese patent could be tagged "fanciful", and this is not the key point. What is interesting, is how "space fighter" ideas / concepts pervade through popular culture at a point when some people feel comfortable with the idea of applying for these patent "concepts".
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