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more Star Trek related Science - Tractor beams!

#1



Matt²

FOXNews.com - Scientists Invent a Tractor Beam


#2



Disconnected

pssh people have been telling me for years I have my own orbit.

interesting progress in this field though I must say.


#3

Hylian

Hylian

Yet more proof that the science fiction of our child hoods shapes the technology of the future


#4

Jay

Jay

:sowsuser:

Wow, that's awesome.


#5

Frank

Frankie Williamson

Star Trek is pretty much responsible for like 90% of technological advances I am convinced.


#6



Matt²

Tinwhistler said:
Not exactly like a tractor beam, though...based on the description and the photo in the artcile, you need optics on both sides of the object to reflect beams and give you control over how the object moves. We're still working on a repellent force principle here, rather than a true tractor beam, which works on some kind of attractive force principle.
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ssssshhh!! Don't ruin our nerd glee!


#7

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

Heh... Whenever I read that word, I think of a beam that turns things into tractors.

What? I'm from the countryside.


#8



Matt²

Tinwhistler;435867][QUOTE=North_Ranger said:
Heh... Whenever I read that word, I think of a beam that turns things into tractors.

What? I'm from the countryside.
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LOL! .. I was imagining something more akin of the tractor plowing the field with a tractor beam.


#9



Matt²

Tinwhistler said:
best I could do with MS Paint :)

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ROFL.. I was thinking BEHIND the tractor, as usual (for farming).. now that I think of it, TNG era ships tow/repel from in front when they're trying to keep something away or from escaping... but when they're actually TOWING, then they do actually lug it behind them. ;)


#10

fade

fade

I'm more fascinated by the channel that carries Glen Beck reporting science.


#11

tegid

tegid

We already got optical tweezers!


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