absolutely nothing to do with file sharing...

**gorphon** · August 31st, 2002, 03:30 PM

but its a tractor beam for godsakes...
star trek is becoming reality
and I have absorbed too many psychotropics... but I bet Im not the only one who can imagine warehouse size beams evolving out of this equipment... Itd be one hell of a way to move equipment, maybe even almost negate those pollution crazy, diesel dinosaur semitrucks used all over the world. Thatd be kinda neat.

**Ken17625** · August 31st, 2002, 04:06 PM

huh? where did that come from?

**gorphon** · August 31st, 2002, 05:03 PM

if they're manipulating hundreds of microscopic objects individually and simultaneously then it isnt that big a jump to doingit on a large scale, say shipping a shipment of produce across the country in place of trucking it. In theory, if it works in the microscopic world it should work in the larger as well, its just a matter of proper application.

20 years ago, there were still 'experts' who said that there was no need for your average consumer to own a personal computer. And now most consumers, at lesat in industrialized society, wouldnt know what to do without one. The technology is already there, its just a matter of time.

**Ken17625** · August 31st, 2002, 06:01 PM

I guess............

**DiddlySquat** · September 30th, 2002, 01:35 PM

well, it sounds cool. but you know they are gonna screw it up royally when it comes to the human's turn. Someone's gonna end up in Afganistan with an ass for a foot by accident.....or maybe the Fly will become a reality...imagine the possibilities :P:black