https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42676079/scientists-build-working-tractor-beam/
I mean... It's a start.
I mean... It's a start.
Scientists Invent an Actual Tractor Beam... Kinda
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This doesn't so much pull as it allows whatever it hits to be a glow thruster more than anything else.
On a similar note
https://www.universetoday.com/15972...tate-vehicles-in-the-earths-upper-atmosphere/
I have often wondered about what I might call a sky cursor---maybe have two or more beams intersecting an aerogel retroreflector and having it pantograph over, across--and down...the power beams replacing the physical struts of this:
https://www.brachiograph.art/how-to/pantograph.html
Useful in rarified atmosphere of Mars or high up above. This might resemble a UFO but would have no heavy load-out---maybe a camera at best.
A lightweight engineless drone.
It would be a good way for a civilization look look more advanced than it is.
Sleeper colony ships use the slow boat approach---build beamers in asteroids---hidden bases---and a cursorcraft can seem to zip about as if breaking the laws of physics---though it is of no real substance. That's what you make contact with.
Let an heavyweight Nuclear Orion pulse-ship show up at their beamers---and they've had it. There is your Footfall 2.
As for Terminator 2
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-person-shaped-robot-liquify-power-magnets.html
On a similar note
https://www.universetoday.com/15972...tate-vehicles-in-the-earths-upper-atmosphere/
I have often wondered about what I might call a sky cursor---maybe have two or more beams intersecting an aerogel retroreflector and having it pantograph over, across--and down...the power beams replacing the physical struts of this:
https://www.brachiograph.art/how-to/pantograph.html
Useful in rarified atmosphere of Mars or high up above. This might resemble a UFO but would have no heavy load-out---maybe a camera at best.
A lightweight engineless drone.
It would be a good way for a civilization look look more advanced than it is.
Sleeper colony ships use the slow boat approach---build beamers in asteroids---hidden bases---and a cursorcraft can seem to zip about as if breaking the laws of physics---though it is of no real substance. That's what you make contact with.
Let an heavyweight Nuclear Orion pulse-ship show up at their beamers---and they've had it. There is your Footfall 2.
As for Terminator 2
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-person-shaped-robot-liquify-power-magnets.html
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Well, it's a "something." 
