NASA | Making Tractor Beams a Reality (Eventually)
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Uploaded by NASAexplorer on Nov 3, 2011
Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light -- are the stuff of science fiction, but a team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept for remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles and delivering them to a robotic rover or orbiting spacecraft for analysis. This animation shows how a hypothetical future mission might eventually employ tractor beam technology.
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I have no literally idea of the physics involved in this video.
Does anyone?
Or is this just some "oh wouldn't it be cool if magic existed" bullshit.
I mean a laser beam attracting particles towards it? oh sure we learned all about that in school.
WHAT
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@nte604 so go to space
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Looks more like the excursion funnel from Portal 2. Also, I guess I was watching too many sci-fi movies, I was expecting it to pull the comet off course or something.
3 months ago 2
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It would be nice to get this on my Iphone so I don't have to move to get the paper. Then I can kill the dog.
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In space, no one can hear you scream.
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@Jango370 It wasn't hazy like a dream, everything was as clear as it is right now, as I'm commenting on this page
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@MoreYummy that's why there's a description
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No music? oh its space!
sushanalone 3 months ago 42
@sushanalone In the future there will be robots... and sound in space.
delerium2k 3 months ago 10