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Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

How close are we to an actual forcefield? Is it even on the agenda or anything? Or is it just sci fi and thats it?

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How close are we to an actual forcefield? Is it even on the agenda or anything? Or is it just sci fi and thats it?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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    Closest I can think to one is a plasma window. They can apparently separate atmospheric pressure from a vacuum with just plasma, but are restricted to being quite small with current technology.

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      8kW/cm is quite the power draw…

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      I wonder what other things it can hold at bay other than gases.

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        Hold my beer.

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