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Old June 21st, 2003, 06:04 PM
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Default Re: Tractor Beams: can they pull you in, then slingshot you out the other way?

No, it can't. The whole idea of tractor/repuser beams is beyond our understanding of gravity/inertia, so any rational thought based on Newton' law is comletely irrelevant to SEIV (or almost any other Sci-Fi) universe.
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