Tractor Beams - coming soon! Maybe.

Erik Tracy
Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
edited January 2013 in The Clubhouse
"Fascinating" :cheesygrin:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/27/scientists-build-a-working-tractor-beam/

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,013
    edited January 2013
    That's some pretty wicked cool stuff, Erik. Technology can be amazing sometimes.

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  • Anthony Hinton
    Anthony Hinton Posts: 107
    edited January 2013
    It always fascinates me when sci-fi tech starts to become reality.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,277
    edited January 2013
    Awesome! Pretty soon we won't have to get up to grab the remote.
    No excuses!
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2013
    Very interesting, but I wonder how much more R&D and, especially, MONEY will be needed to realize a full scale sci-fi tractor beam. I would assume that the costs, at this point, would be, as USUAL, prohibitive, so that I and a few others might not see such a thing in "our" lifetimes. Budgeting for such things is a XXXXX!

    Remember those "flying" cars we were all supposed to have by now? That's what I'm talking about. Projecting these things into the future is tricky from an economic point of view!

    And we should have had a man on Mars a number of years ago? But, instead, we're still "talking" about it.

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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited January 2013
    Well, we do have flying cars, cost kinda keep them out of the main stream along with needing a pilots license and an airport everytime you need to take off and land. Personally, I'd like to see the old jet-pak be reborn. Nuthin' like a personal flying getup to start the morning off right. Wonder if they'd come with cup holders, gotta have my morning joe.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited January 2013
    Hey, I've been paying attention to the flying car thing.:smile:

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