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Found this pic at the CIA site. Is this a weapon or a new rocket propulsion system? 
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That machine is farting luminous eggs in series... | |
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looks like one those collider things physicists use to study the components of the atom. | 
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https://www.cia.gov/library/center-f...-barriers.html
Specifically the section less than halfway down the page that says: "The Engines". For your pic it says: The J58 jet engine during a static test. A modified version of an engine designed for another program four years earlier, the jet generated as much power as the turbines of the ocean liner the Queen Mary.
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Originally Posted by danarhea  Is this a weapon or a new rocket propulsion system?
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I immediately thought Ghostbusters when I saw the picture.
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Originally Posted by danarhea | I've seen these (not exactly this one lol) up close. It is indeed a jet engine mounted on a test platform. | |
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A jet engine for what exactly? It looks like some of the pod racers from Episode I 
This one isn't a real pod racer but I thought it looked like that pic 
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