Tractor Beams Come To Life 127
Jamie is helping bring our childhood fantasies/nightmares to life with a link that says "Andrei Rhode, a researcher involved with the project, said that existing optical tweezers are able to move particles the size of a bacterium a few millimeters in a liquid. Their
new technique can move objects one hundred times that size over a distance of a meter or more."
Strangely drawn to this story... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but... (Score:3, Funny)
the tractor beam wont be installed until Tuesday.
Hope you can wait (Score:5, Funny)
Physicists have been able to manipulate tiny particles over miniscule distances by using lasers for years.
I hope the new tractor beams don't take as long to operate. I don't have that kind of time.
Re:Just what this country needs... (Score:0, Funny)
As if our country isn't obese enough already. Now we'll eventually have people getting beer and Doritos without even getting their fat asses off the couch.
Who needs a tractor beam when you have a wife to do this?
Just reverse it (Score:3, Funny)
Just reverse it -- use dark instead of light -- and it will pull.
Re:Aren't tractor beams all about pulling? (Score:3, Funny)
I made one once that would pull things. Everyone just said it sucked. Then that guy made a Dyson Vacuum Sphere and things got strange.
Re:Agriculture (Score:4, Funny)
Sure it does. A maid with a vacuum cleaner large enough to destroy a planet would also have a tweezer beam large enough for one little ship.
Re:Strangely drawn to this story... (Score:3, Funny)
I did not realize that every aspect of my life needs to be devoted toward helping some other person out.
Wow! /. posts help no one.
This means a major change for me!
The toilet paper I choose seems to help nothing.
93.7% of my
I watched the news last night. No one helped there.
I failed to watch some lecture. No helping there.
This post.
You are so right. Have no more time for anything now that I have seen the light.
Oh wait.
I meant to say.
Fuck off.