Nasa funds research into ‘tractor beams’
Science • November 2011 • Views: 706
Tractor beams! Say it out loud:
“Remote deploy the tractor beam to attract the ground samples, please.”
“Though a mainstay in science fiction, and Star Trek in particular, laser-based trapping isn’t fanciful or beyond current technological know-how,” Dr Stysley said.
The truly magnificent thing about science is that it happens whether or not you deny it.