Skywalker Ranch Can Finally Have Vaporators!

The more dedicated Star Wars fans among us (i.e. virtually every poster to Mod-blog) may recall that Luke Skywalker's Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru were "moisture farmers" on Tattoine. All those big machines in the background of the farm scenes were "vaporators" which gleaned moisture from the arid desert air of Tatooine. Ah, the amazing things imaginable in science fiction, eh?

Well, now it appears George Lucas could install them onto Skywalker Ranch! Wired is reporting on a company called Aqua Sciences which has a device which can pull water even from the driest Iraqi areas, to supply our Marines. If this technology is as good as the CEO says it is, then it is only a matter of time before it is deployed in many arid areas.

Of course, many environmentalists will then decry the loss of important ecological "drylands", second only to "wetlands" in their plans for preservation.