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- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+69The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor ("he") personally experienced a full-body teleportation while walking to the bus stop
WTF! - snowbooch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+59this guy needs to teleport himself to a psychiatrist
- SPNKrPunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37I didn't know you could patent Acid trips.
- SaintDogbert, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40Seems like a perfectly cromulent patent to me.
- Bogtha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30John St Clair has applied for quite a few patents:
http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200604284330.st_clair_hyperinventor
* Electric Dipole Moment Propulsion System
* Electric Dipole Spacecraft
* Cavitating Oil Hyperspace Energy Generator
* Hyperspace Energy Generator
* Hyperspace Torque Generator
* Rotor Inductance Propulsion System
* Rotating Electrostatic Propulsion System
* Bobbin Electromagnetic Field Propulsion Vehicle
* Electric Dipole Moment Propulsion System
* Magnetic Vortex Wormhole Generator - briansalo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29That and the country of New Zealand up for auction on eBay this morning.
I ♥ the internet. - CaptainEO, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28From the article: "It was this experiment that resulted in making first contact with the androids of the Grey aliens who told me, in a remote viewing session, that "We saw you blowing smoke into hyperspace." " Wow. Just.... wow. Adjectives fail me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30Maybe he's a Scientologist... L. Ron use to teleport all over the place.
/sarcasm - seanmc303, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25This is nothing. I have been able to do both teleportation and time travel at the same time. This usually happens when I have a little to drink, but the results are consistent. The only bug I am working out right now is, without fail, my pants do not seem to be able to make the time/space traveling. For some reason I loose them each time. Perhaps spandex pants will be able to withstand the rigors of time/space travel.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23You can't prove it doesn't exist. Either way, that guy must have been hiiiiigh.
JOHN ST. CLAIR;4A
52 KINGS COURT
SAN JUAN, PR
John, expect a couple hundred tourists coming your way. - centinall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23WOW, JUST WOW is right. This is terrible. There is something completely wrong with the USPTO. My uncle and his neighbour were working on this exact thing in their garden shed around 1991. And this patent was filed in 2004? Haven't they heard of prior art. Ridiculous!!!
- imrambi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19You sure you didn't come up with the flux capacitor then?
- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY TOOK THIS GUY SERIOUS!!!!
That's got to be the most asinine thing I've seen or heard today. - TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19This is what happens when you drop a small baby on its head and then it grows up to be a adult.
- paladin217, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17This is why patent applications should NOT be viewable by the public. People don't know what they are looking at.
This thing is not an issued patent. It is a Pre-Grant Publication. It has not been reviewed by a patent examiner. It is simply an application that has been submitted and made public after being filed 18 months ago.
For an application such as this, the examiner that does get it can ask for a demo of this invention. If the inventor cannot reproduce it, it would be rejected. - stacky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14the patent is for "full-body teleportation" right? Now i must run to get a patent for "half-body teleportation"
- zubi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I totally believe in this patent.
Once while I was hanging a picture over my toilet, I slipped and hit my head.. When I regained conscienceness, I experienced the same thing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Wow... it's possible to FLY to the moon?
- dchaosdx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11i agree... based on the fact that in 2 whole minutes of searching random terms, i found over 1000 patents regarding things the body naturally produces, such as nucleic acids, amino acids, proteins, etc, etc. i'd like to patent urine, and see how far that gets me. i could be like the RIAA of pee.
- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Someone listens to too much Coast to Coast AM.
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Eh, not sure they took him seriously. But he seriously filed for it last month.
At this rate it will take four years for them to issue him a patent. By then there will be a dozen companies making teleportation obelisks, and he'll declare himself a proponent of open source and sue Microsoft for their version while turning a blind eye to OperaPort.
For those who need it: ;-) - mdreid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This is a patent *application*, not a granted patent. Big difference.
The USPTO has not granted this patent yet and they probably will not because it does not disclose the invention in a way that will allow others to build it. This is a key requirement of a patent. The USPTO (used to) get tons of patent *applications* for perpetual motion machines. They never granted any because the descriptions provided in the patent required the laws of thermodynamics to be broken in order to build the invention.
All this patent application means is that someone has more dollars than sense and has flushed several thousand dollars down the toilet for an application that will not get granted. - Mabu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I hate to break it to you dude, but patents don't last 100 years. They expire.
- glitchbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8OOPS I think I just signed johnny up for a life time supply of junk mail
- iSrael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'll visit him and if I get back in one second, it works.
Really, I live in Puerto Rico and I shall visit this dude!
I'll see if I can post an interview in YouTube.
[:o) - slappe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is my favorite quote from the patent...
"The answer comes from experiments done using the ancient Chinese form of breathing known as Chi Kung. Using this breathing technique, we have been able to levitate the human body over six feet in the air. The internal temperature of the stomach is around 200 degrees Fahrenheit. By simultaneously squeezing the diaphragm to bring hot air up through the lungs, and breathing through the nose to bring cold air down, rotating vortices are generated in the lung passages when these two air masses meet and twist around each other as depicted in the famous Yin-Yang diagram. Because the lung has variable diameter passages from the large diameter at the throat to the final small air sacs, there is a spectrum of rotating frequencies. "
200 degree stomach??? Haha. Who thinks up this stuff?
It's an atrocity on the world when creative minds go to waste. - dtay2827, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'm pretty sure that this is only an application i doubt it will be approved. Also did anyone notice that he is from Puerto Rico. I don't think they get coast to coast AM there.
- renwoshin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yea it's only an application. every patent filed gets published in 18 months if you want it to, whether it's accepted in the end or not.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -4/+10What if one of those "12 Monkeys" moments when someone making sensationalist claims who is seemingly insane is actually telling the truth and he was teleported.
Or, he was really fkn wasted! - geminem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7the patent-filer was smoking something all right. =)
- p9s50W5k4GUD2c6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The NSA owns the patent.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Haven't any of you played Half Life? This is so obviously real!
- chaosmachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7yes, this is only an application for a patent, it has yet to actually be granted.
- dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9"Cromulent" is perfect.
/kudos SaintDogbert - CJHtxGeek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9This guy is a genius, not in quantum physics but in society terms, as long as his decendents keep up with the patent payments, in a few hundred years when we have teleportation he can sue there asses in traditional American style... (yes, I'm american aswell, walmart wants to patent the smiley face... period)
- wordsnatcher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I say, good! Teleportation is the LAST thing we need. You think obesity is rampant now - wait until we don't have to walk at all, and can just beam our lardy asses between the fridge, couch and auto-colostomy machine.
Besides, teleportation can't happen until we increase our conveyor-belt-sidewalk saturation level. You can't just skip that step. - DragonAura, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7There is no single word in any language to describe this.
- zubi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5it looked like a glowing Y
I dont know what it was called
;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@mohanned: "What if one of those "12 Monkeys" moments when someone making sensationalist claims who is seemingly insane is actually telling the truth and he was teleported."
You mean the Casandra Complex?
Kind of like if WMDs are REALLY found in Iraq? - nbx909, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8okay i demand that they ask for a deminstration
- aliengoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This is a patent APPLICATION. I can apply for a patent on a method of picking my nose, but it may not get approved.
Notice I say may. - CarlosReyes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Nope, no Coast to Coast. Pretty women, yes, but no coast to coast.
- xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So long as the "inventor" gets teleported into a brick wall I see no harm.
- exipolar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have a coworker who listens to that show like it was the testament itself. He was so crushed when he realized that Zeta Riticula was the planent from the movie Alien, and not the place the ET's took this supposed retired general to.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's a patent /application/, one of which is so outlandish to probably get thrown out. Hopefully.
Anyone can apply for any patent they want, nobody's guarenteed to get it, however. - nexus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I patented the idea for a US based patent office before the USA govt. set up one. I am then going to sue the govt on the basis that they did not pay me royalties for the office.
- porksoda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This noble patent embiggens us all.
- Mabu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"This is what happens when you drop a small baby on its head and then it grows up to be a adult."
And then gets a job at the USPTO. - Rand76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I guess it was just a matter of time before someone got a patent for a STARGATE! lol
- Kourgin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dude please yes, that would rock.
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