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star trek and hamster genes... post #1  quote:



what more could you ask for.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1310771.stm


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A "tractor beam" that can reach out, trap and move objects has been developed by British scientists.

But while fictional tractor beams of the kind depicted in Star Trek can ensnare a giant spaceship, this real version works only at the microscopic level.



bring in the logic probe!

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They also used the beam to rotate a hamster chromosome to demonstrate its potential for studying structures inside the cell.





That's tractor beam stuff fer sure,


but it's also the first step to transportor technology.

(a laser will move your atoms, bust em up into energy, then transmit it, then convert them back to matter and move them into place)
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"I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget."


lots of classic audio here:

http://www.wavsource.com/tv/star_trek1.htm

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bring in the logic probe!

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I can't think of a way that transporters wouldn't be completely agonizing, but I'm no rocket scientist.


"Logic dictates, but nobody's listening..."
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You had to somehow bring in hamsters, didn't you Larke? Perv.

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Sierradaddy said this in post #4 :
I can't think of a way that transporters wouldn't be completely agonizing, but I'm no rocket scientist.



It would have to happen so fast, there is no way your brain could process it.


You would be broken down and zapped back together before you could feel the AGONY.
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HHSHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!
that's funny
*beeeam*
(10 seconds later)
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
THE AGONY!!!!!!!!!!
Byt it had to be hampsters didnt it?


I find subliminal messages creepy

Children are always the first to suffer..
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Oh great. I used to think everything I saw on Star Trek was just a joke. In the last 3 years I've seen enough inventions to believe by THAT time, Star Trek will look like a joke for a completely different reason.


Please pardon my pseudo-intellectuaphilisophicalismysiticality.
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