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- aprocter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1However, Davis expressed great enthusiasm for research allegedly conducted by Chinese scientists who, he says, have conducted "psychic" experiments in which humans used mental powers to teleport matter through solid walls. He claims their research shows "gifted children were able to cause the apparent teleportation of small objects (radio micro-transmitters, photosensitive paper, mechanical watches, horseflies, other insects, etc.)."
oh my god. thats *****. - angrydroid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1okay, fine... but you go first, ok?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Those asgard are a lot of help!
- Mexrocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising," hahaha
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But...they already have this technology on the Prometheus and Daedalus.
- Al3xander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0now this is digg.com material,
dugg... - drummerjed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dam, someone beat me to the Stargate Reference.
- fugitivALiEN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like Michio Kaku's quote: "the only way to use (teleportation) as a secret weapon is to allow our enemies to bankrupt themselves thinking they can produce a teleportation machine." We need leaps in technology before this can be attempted...
- Lostcosmos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Saw the Asgard comments coming from a mile away.
"in Norse mythology entrance to Asgard could be gained only by crossing the rainbow bridge Bifrost, which was guarded by Heimdall, the watchman of the gods." (From The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition).
Rainbow bridge is obviously Asgard beaming technology. - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh yeah, like they're _really_ going to use this to get Bin Laden.
Again, "terrorism" and "Bin Laden" seem to be the reason for everything, just like "The evils of Communism" during the Cold War. - motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Beam me up Scotty."
"Very funny, now beam up my pants." - kingtubby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It´s funny, the way that the "journalist" tells us about how the americans are being crazy, wasting money on teleportation trough computing/science and then goes straight over to telling us about the chinese scientists that "have conducted ´psychic´ experiments in which humans used mental powers to teleport matter through solid walls" like there´s nothing strange about that, whatsoever... :)
- Flod_of_SYNs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Waits with cat in arm to see exactly why Barney Calhoun was afraid of what happened to the cat in HL2.
- HiddenForce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The article mentions that a teleporter "would encounter all kinds of physics headaches generated by the principles of quantum physics" but doesn't go into details. One such problem is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which states, "the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known." Knowing both of these would be needed for a teleporter. Star Trek transporters "overcame" this with a "Heisenberg Compensator." When asked how it works, Mike Okuda answered, "Very well, thank you."
A lot of the technical physics aspects behind some of the ideas in Star Trek (transporters, warp drive, phasers, etc.) are discussed in not-overly-technical terms in "The Physics of Star Trek" by Lawrence M. Krauss. A very interesting read for techno-geek Star Trek fans.
(Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060977108/qid=1125357246/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0889026-3684602?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 ) - CrackHappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love this quote from "Chaos" in the article (note, the author clearly just mis-typed Chao - but I found it hilarious)
"The devil's bargain that you're going to take if you're going to exist in that cutting-edge (scientific) world and use taxpayer dollars is that you're going to be investigating some pretty goofy things," Chaos said. - SatNav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible"
"Chinese scientists who, he says, have conducted "psychic" experiments in which humans used mental powers to teleport matter through solid walls."
"Last year, the Air Force spent $25,000 on a report, titled "Teleportation Physics Study," to examine possible ways to teleport humans and objects through space."
- Looks like the Chinese are winning that game then :D - KidVicious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"it would be ideal if the United States could teleport U.S. soldiers into "a cave, tap bin Laden on the shoulder, and say: 'Hey, let's go,'"
To teleport next to him, wouldn't you need to know where he is first? - koloblican11763, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah the artical was long but was very interesting. I'd like to see the real chines kids doing the teleportation thing face to face. It sounds interesting but I hope they can reserch it on there own salaries (which I know wont happen but its good to dream.)
- outerspaceapple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0reasearch is good... especially when China goes bankrupt doing it ;-)
- 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cosmo asked: "why would anyone discourage research"
Because we have so many problems here on Earth and until all of us are at peace with one and other we shouldn't waste money on blah blah blah.
I agree, cosmo. Why do people work so hard to come up with reasons that we shouldn't learn. - cosmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why would anyone discourage research
- alberto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Here is another link to similar story done by boing boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/29/us_air_forces_telepo.html
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