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

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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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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yea - someone gets me - and this time not with a butterfly net .
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
/me teleports in from another thread, doesn't see any chocolate, and teleports back out
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There was chocolate - hey is that Catsan I smell again ?
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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The operative word is *was*. I guess I was too late for the chocolate, must have been Fuzzy again

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've always been under the impression that Fuzzy was an innocent pawn, a catspaw if you will - if only we could find the cunning mind behind this innocent and well respected moderator
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That sounds dangerously close to calling one of the mods his 'pimp' Wonder which mod has a pimpmobile?
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmm, wonder what this red button does...
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
gratz, logic. you just killed bush's approval ratings!
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hold on, Bush is approving the ratings - what user level is he ?
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-16-atomic-teleport_x.htm

(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.


/me 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"




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Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The longest journey starts with but one step...
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A particularly appropriate quote (source Lao-Tse) philosophy of the Tao or way. Also I note that Jafo isn't above ripping from the Chinese.

/me looks down to check thickness of ice.

Unsure - runs for the hills
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ah.....but hence there is no ©Jafo appendant....
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just for using the word 'hence' :-

©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo ©Jafo

I've abused your copyright

/me double checks for cracks in Ice and still unsure returns to hills.


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Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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....

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes...I saw that not too long ago...always worth a giggle...
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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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Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"groan, groan", there, now if you'll excuse me, I am in the process of ordering multi-colored parasols from the Chinese
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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....

Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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