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Beam me up Scottie coming true!
The Star Trek tractor beam has often been sought after by sci-fi and technology fanatics alike, but scientists have recently designed a real life tractor beam of sorts, using sound waves to actually move things around at will. While it may be small scale in its early stages, this revolutionary discovery could have big consequences for the human race in the not-so-distant future. Web Pro News shares this Saturday, May 31, the details surrounding this modern tractor beam and the science behind it.
How convenient and desirable would a Star Trek tractor beam be in today’s day and age? From grabbing that smartphone from across the room without having to get up to never really having to use the stairs again (you might miss out on the exercise), a tractor beam would be undoubtedly incredible, not to mention useful. Fortunately for those fellow dreamers of transportation at the click of a button out there, a reality in this advanced realm has actually been made this week.
Using sound waves to “transport” objects from one place to another has finally been devised by a team of researchers and scientists located at Dundee University. The expert group that worked diligently to design this tractor beam — which seems to come straight out of a sci-fi story or Star Trek episode — was able to successfully move a triangular item a single centimeter forward. While only 1 centimeter may not seem like much distance (and it isn’t), it’s certainly a step in the right direction for the new technology.
According to Nature World News in an updated report, a scientist working for the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (commonly abbreviated as IMSAT), noted in a recent statement to the media:
“We were able to show that you could exert sufficient force on an object around 1cm (about 0.4in) in size to hold or move it, by directing twin beams of energy from the ultrasound array towards the back of the object.”
It seems that the unique device in question was an ultrasound contraption, which serves as the basis for this “tractor beam.” The experts claim that their tractor beam is the strongest one in existence at the moment (though many have tried to build such a complex machine before), and that they intend to keep on working with it to make it even stronger in the future. Added the doctor in her comment,
“The concept has been there for a long time … It took a couple of years to find the right pieces and get them together, with lots of other research going on … Our previous work on the sonic screwdriver led to this …We can do other shapes and sizes, but it was the best shape to demonstrate what was happening.”
If you had a tractor beam at your disposal, what might you do with the amazing invention?
So it looks like moving something as big as even a TV remote controller, for example, a significant distance is still a very long way off for us average humans, but here’s to science, here's to sci-fi and Star Trek, and here’s to hoping that may eventually come to be.
My body has been controlled by sound waves for years.
That job interview was going so well until I realized I was fukked up on acid in the middle of a cornfield naked and talking to a scarecrow.
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Yeh i suppose,but i was talking about the force.
That job interview was going so well until I realized I was fukked up on acid in the middle of a cornfield naked and talking to a scarecrow.
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My understanding is you always have it and it just turns up here and there when your run down like Ross river virus and other mosquito born viral diseases No, you're wrong  ... come to think about it, you may be thinking of herpes
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He isnt wrong. Once a person contracts malaria, there is no real cure. You simply manage the symptoms and they go away but can return at any time.
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Anyway, there are rumours coming out of Portugal and Serbia that Liverpool have been in talks with the agent of Benfica's Serbian star Lazar Markovic. A fee of 25 mil pounds is being mentioned. The kid is young and fast and is a talent, however i personally do not think he is first team LFC material just yet, perhaps in 2 years, and 25 mil is an awful lot to spend on a kid. He is highly sought after though with Chelsea and Arsenal also apparently interested.
I would like him to join LFC but not at that fee...
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How are you going to take it if you're included in the Moreno deal, Suso?
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Beam me up Scottie coming true!
The Star Trek tractor beam has often been sought after by sci-fi and technology fanatics alike, but scientists have recently designed a real life tractor beam of sorts, using sound waves to actually move things around at will. While it may be small scale in its early stages, this revolutionary discovery could have big consequences for the human race in the not-so-distant future. Web Pro News shares this Saturday, May 31, the details surrounding this modern tractor beam and the science behind it.
How convenient and desirable would a Star Trek tractor beam be in today’s day and age? From grabbing that smartphone from across the room without having to get up to never really having to use the stairs again (you might miss out on the exercise), a tractor beam would be undoubtedly incredible, not to mention useful. Fortunately for those fellow dreamers of transportation at the click of a button out there, a reality in this advanced realm has actually been made this week.
Using sound waves to “transport” objects from one place to another has finally been devised by a team of researchers and scientists located at Dundee University. The expert group that worked diligently to design this tractor beam — which seems to come straight out of a sci-fi story or Star Trek episode — was able to successfully move a triangular item a single centimeter forward. While only 1 centimeter may not seem like much distance (and it isn’t), it’s certainly a step in the right direction for the new technology.
According to Nature World News in an updated report, a scientist working for the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (commonly abbreviated as IMSAT), noted in a recent statement to the media:
“We were able to show that you could exert sufficient force on an object around 1cm (about 0.4in) in size to hold or move it, by directing twin beams of energy from the ultrasound array towards the back of the object.”
It seems that the unique device in question was an ultrasound contraption, which serves as the basis for this “tractor beam.” The experts claim that their tractor beam is the strongest one in existence at the moment (though many have tried to build such a complex machine before), and that they intend to keep on working with it to make it even stronger in the future. Added the doctor in her comment,
“The concept has been there for a long time … It took a couple of years to find the right pieces and get them together, with lots of other research going on … Our previous work on the sonic screwdriver led to this …We can do other shapes and sizes, but it was the best shape to demonstrate what was happening.”
If you had a tractor beam at your disposal, what might you do with the amazing invention?
So it looks like moving something as big as even a TV remote controller, for example, a significant distance is still a very long way off for us average humans, but here’s to science, here's to sci-fi and Star Trek, and here’s to hoping that may eventually come to be.
Should be great news for Andy Carroll. The only way he might be able to drive a ball into the net is without him having to touch it.
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£14m spent so far
Improvement?
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definite improvement in the squad overall and more options.
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definite improvement in the squad overall and more options.
I HAVE TO SAY AM getting worried about suarez leaving
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