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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Comments (Page 3)

Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

Groan all ya like - I'm on the outer rim eating well cooked burgers

lovesblessing

on Jun 17, 2004

Well what else do you think cows are good for, huh?

They can be sneaky rascals sometimes....

lovesblessing

on Jun 17, 2004

Ah, well, ya see my cows are Heavenly......not to mention corn-fed, very cool.....I mean how do explain a cow wearing a white gem-studded jumpsuit....or one in blue gingham dress with sparkling ruby red slippers....all too, too....Holy Cow!

lovesblessing apologizes to The Journeyman for "hidejacking" the thread....ya should have posted a sign "No Mooooooing Allowed!"

lovesblessing will now gather her "herd" and head for the hills.........! (right after she learns how to type!

!)
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_footsie_

on Jun 17, 2004

I have no idea whatsoever any of you are talking about but if I come across a cow on the way to town I will be sure to administer the proper request for blessings and offer respect....unless of course it refuses to stop chewing to accept...in which case I will quietly shine my little flashlight in the other direction as to not disturb its deep and obviously superior awareness of the texture and piquant flavor of the grass while concentrating on its second stomach with the mental tenacity only gifted to the most holy of cows.

IPlural

on Jun 17, 2004

WAIT ! Just a gal darned miunte...

How is the Cow going to continue at the established rate of velocity with a Parasol Dragchute?

Have to make sure to wrap it with a velcro strap

Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

See #26 for possible parasol becomes heatshield explanation

And to bring this thread back on track Texan scientists have managed to dissassemble a cow and then transport it across town successfully.
It had nothing to do with photons or atoms - they were just feeling a bit snackish

Now enough with the cows already

IPlural

on Jun 17, 2004

ok.

mmmm

how about Cats?

IPlural

on Jun 17, 2004

teddybearcholla

on Jun 17, 2004

Seeing as how cows are now banned from this thread, and the jist of it had to do with teleporting, I have a question in need of an answer. If a tooth crowned with gold from about 30 years ago, had to be teleported out of ones mouth, is that gold crown worth "teleporting " home with me?

I.R. Brainiac

on Jun 17, 2004

DHMO...I must be slowing down,took me 2 pages to get that one

on Jun 17, 2004

If it works out, we will have a instant commucation device. Nifty huh? If that's still limited by lightspeed, still jam-proof I guess.

on Jun 17, 2004

Ohh yeah it could also replace those "low tech" radar based cellphones or pagers!

joetheblow

on Jun 17, 2004

#11 by Citizen The Journeyman - 6/16/2004 11:12:48 PM I must have gained a little of the ESP that goes around here cos yesterday the technology moved on again and properties from one atom were moved into another without any physical link. Link(yes, I know thats a physical link )"The breakthrough may not yet make it possible for people to disappear and reappear somewhere else, like actors in a science fiction television show. But it could help lead to "quantum computing" technology that would make superfast computers".Quantum states include physical properties such as energy, motion and magnetic field."We've done it for the first time with massive particles, with atoms," Rainer Blatt, of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Reuters in a telephone interview.The Journeyman provides additional material just cos its polite to do so:-"With 7,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 atoms in the typical human body, it would take ten billion years to teleport them all, says Professor Sam Braunstein, of the University of Wales, Bangor"

WOOOOOOOOW!!!

That is cool! I love stuf like this.

Alternate Setting

on Jun 17, 2004

DHMO...I must be slowing down,took me 2 pages to get that one

Ya gotta work on that cynicism IR - take it out now and then and exercise it

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.

Cos one minute your innocently swallowing stuff like this and the next your overcome with the desire to pass a motion

That is cool! I love stuf like this

I think those same words were spoken as passengers boarded a liner in Southampton on 10th April 1912. Oddly enough only four days later the two sciences, that of making solid objects disappear and that of the effects of reducing DHMO to below freezing point, combined rather spectacularly.

Footnote: Its amazing how once the cows have gone the amount of room that becomes available for the bull to spread itself.

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IPlural

on Jun 17, 2004

hehehe

FTLTransmission thorugh Rrepeaters is coming, and has been in teasting for a while now

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