we’ve invented a Star Trek-style sonic tractor beam
When you thought that film tricks was just child play... You know that scene in an alien movie were all of a sudden an unseen elevator is carrying the humans up into the spaceship, well scientist have done the imaginable they have created a version of that technology. When I think of a tractor beam - a stream of energy that can move objects - I imagine a ray emerging from a spaceship gripping an object outside and pulling it in. In my mind this spaceship is the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, but the idea has been used in countless science fiction plots. But in
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