Now that teleporting is a reality - what price the firewall or lots of threads brought together

Published on June 16, 2004 By Alternate Setting In WinCustomize Talk

Two years ago in Australia scientists reported the first successful teleporting of a laser beam encoded with data from one location to another. There is a small downside, it basically involves making a copy which is then transported at the cost of 'losing' the original.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/australia_teleport_020618.html

It occurs to me that if we should ever get to the unlikely stage of transporting atoms and then people it is not entirely a thing to be welcomed and that some method would be necessary to prevent unwanted intrusions. Long (and purposefully) lost relatives dropping in at awkward moments, spelling obsessives suddenly appearing over your shoulder and refusing to leave until you'd edited and re-posted your thread.

A wave of unexplained disappearances of confectionary and only the faintest hint of Catsan in the air to give a clue as to who may have took it. Dedicated thread followers will know that the cow with the parasol is far too busy trying to find new batteries for its flashlight at the outer ring of the Galaxy to appear in this post.

So given this glimpse into tomorrow's world now that teleporting is a reality - what price a firewall ?

Oh yeh nearly forgot about Old Crab (sorry) for OC it wouldn't be an issue - he'd use a scuttlecraft

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Jafo

on Jun 17, 2004

Help....I'm being abused.....can't you see the violence inherent in the system?

Ok...so it 'should' be 'repressed' but that wouldn't make sense....

Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

IPlural

on Jun 17, 2004

http://www.dhmo.org/

this cracked me up... I was just logged into Scientifc America and there was a short write up on this site....

read the site, if you know what it is, don't say anything for a bit

Jafo

on Jun 17, 2004

Yes...I saw that not too long ago...always worth a giggle...

IPlural

on Jun 17, 2004

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Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

Its amazing the impact it had - the following is a true event based on this:-

The city councillors of Aliso Viejo in Orange County, California, are well-meaning, socially responsible people. And when they came across the huge threat posed to their constituents by dihydrogen monoxide they did what any elected official should do: they took steps to protect their community. A motion due to go before the city legislature proposed banning the potentially deadly substance from within the city boundaries.

Tho what this has to do with my Star Trek technology thread I have no idea - and even more important I would think my Old Crab would never beam anywhere but instead use a 'scuttlecraft' joke should merit at least one groan from someone.

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teddybearcholla

on Jun 17, 2004

"groan, groan", there, now if you'll excuse me, I am in the process of ordering multi-colored parasols from the Chinese

IPlural

on Jun 17, 2004

Hey... it could happen

I was prompted to look into something, I am still checking two other sites for an old story about this.

The gist of it is, they split a photon and put one have in a trapped state at one end of a large room with the other half at the other end. Moved one half up, the oppsite moved up to match it, moved it down and it did thesame. Even with the distence it was true to the magnetic laws which bind waves or which a photon ispart of.

It got me to thinking about FTL or Faster Than Light Communications. you split a photon and decide upon an off and on state. This was done at USC around the same time as the Aussie team transported light.

anyway....

Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

Thank you teddybearcholla for the 'groan', much appreciated - although a question has arisen - if a cow is travelling at or near light speed with a flashlight in one forehoof and holding spare batteries in the other, then where exactly is the optimum place to stick the parasol ?

IPlural - leave my photons in the 'on' state if you don't mind, they've proven to be a natural block to the harmful effects of dihydrogen monoxide

teddybearcholla

on Jun 17, 2004

The tail, TJ, the tail!!

Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

I did consider that, I really did (the depths of this tragic waste of bandwith and mental energy just continues to astound me

) But wouldn't that both create drag and fail to protect her from the light and heat. Unless of course the cow is travelling backwards and using the flashlight to see where she's been.

In any event, regardless of E=mc2, I now have an image of a cow accelerating towards light speed at the outer rim of the galaxy pointing a fading flashlight at a multi-coloured parasol that's branded with the traditional Chinese symbol for KMart and asking anyone who'll listen "does my bum look big in this ?"

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teddybearcholla

on Jun 17, 2004

Sounds like a movie in the making, or at least a wallpaper

(the depths of this tragic waste of bandwith }, apparently you did not receive your new bandwidth usage bill

I did, and I think I'll have it teleported to, umm, Jafo

Aleatoric

on Jun 17, 2004

I now have an image of a cow accelerating towards light speed at the outer rim of the galaxy pointing a fading flashlight at a multi-coloured parasol that's branded with the traditional Chinese symbol for KMart and asking anyone who'll listen "does my bum look big in this ?"

You should know that the answer to that question is always 'No'

You also forgot to mention that the cow is drinking DHMO during this excursion

lovesblessing

on Jun 17, 2004

Holy Cow!!!!! "Thank you, thank you very much!" "Oh, there's no place like home....click, click...there's no place like home.....click, click....there's no place like home...."

lovesblessing has checked with part of her herd of cows and they seem to feel singularly honored that there is a whole thread for them....hmmm, must have something to do with being contented!

Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

Hold on, sod developing my social skills, I demand a recap

As far as I remember I specifically stated at the beginning that the cows were far too busy in another thread to appear here - all this of course just so I can type the following:-

Alternate Setting wishes it to be known his thread has been 'hidejacked'

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