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2018-01-24 Science & Technology

Tractor beam breakthrough could one day levitate humans - study

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Posted by Fred 2018-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 "Now we just need to overcome the 'all test subjects go deaf' problem."

Posted by PBMcL 2018-01-24 00:37|| 2018-01-24 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 When pigs fly......

Posted by Tiny Sputer8745 2018-01-24 07:41|| 2018-01-24 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Will it work in space? You know for towing disabled space vehicles and meteorites and stuff like that.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2018-01-24 09:07|| 2018-01-24 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Somewhere, Doc Smith is having a quiet chuckle.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-01-24 11:41|| 2018-01-24 11:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Not much of a discovery for anyone having watched sunlit dust motes in front of a speaker.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-24 12:14|| 2018-01-24 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Let me know when they develop photon torpedos.

Posted by Raj 2018-01-24 14:28|| 2018-01-24 14:28|| Front Page Top

#7 I will require dual beams and a parachute.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-24 14:52|| 2018-01-24 14:52|| Front Page Top

#8 All this talk about tractors reminded me of the old joke; goes like this:

The tractor salesman broke up with his girlfriend; sent her a John Deere letter.

You can thank me later.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-01-24 14:54|| 2018-01-24 14:54|| Front Page Top

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