how do lasers move things without burning them?

Subject: how do lasers move things without burning them?

Date: Tue Jul 27 11:00:34 2004
Posted by david
Grade level: nonaligned School: n/a
City: pensacola State/Province: fl Country: No country entered.
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1090944034.Ph

Message:


i have seen on a program about the future of air transportation, and one of the 
methods they used to get something off of the ground was a pulsed laser.  also, 
i have heard of a laser being used to align satellites, and other long 
distance "move without damage" instances.  how does light move things, and how 
does the energy contained within the light not damage the object?

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