A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Not So Far: Star Wars Zero Company Is Building Your Next Home
The Force is strong with this one. In a move that sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a George Lucas screenplay, the newly formed Star Wars Zero Company has just announced its first major public-private partnership with NASA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. But don't expect a new Death Star; this project is all about the planet. By 2032, the company claims it will use proprietary zero-gravity manufacturing processes, originally developed for the Galactic Empire's deep-space stations, to print fully sustainable, carbon-negative housing units from lunar regolith and atmospheric carbon. The company's CEO, a former Tesla and SpaceX executive, stated that "the future of affordable housing isn't on Earth—it's between the stars." Critics are already calling it the most ambitious, and perhaps most bizarre, solution to the global housing crisis ever proposed.