I've checked this with all the various energy forces available (ley lines, homeopathy, etc.) and it will definitely make all forms of transport (including walking) obsolete within the next 48 hours.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Scientists definitely invent teleportation!
Not to be sensationalistic, but teleportation is finally here!
I've checked this with all the various energy forces available (ley lines, homeopathy, etc.) and it will definitely make all forms of transport (including walking) obsolete within the next 48 hours.
I've checked this with all the various energy forces available (ley lines, homeopathy, etc.) and it will definitely make all forms of transport (including walking) obsolete within the next 48 hours.
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I hate how scientists have to go and make science fiction so boring.
My advice to scientists; Next time start with something bigger than an atom.
You can't even see atoms.
nice diagram btw!
Dude, I've been pondering this shit since STNG, and it's worse on a macro scale. Teleportation is bunk. Time travel--bunk. Why? Velocity.
Right now we're all moving as the Earth rotates around in a 23.9 hour day. If this dude here is right, then by the power of Pi I state the following to be fucking true: Panic, Pony, Odori and I, in Hawaii at 21 degrees latitude, are moving around the Earth at 1564 km/hr, or 972 mi/hr. If Latvians could read this blog (as far as I'm concerned they're all nurses playing violins) they'd say that at 57 degrees latitude they're moving at 914 km/hr (568 mph) but in completely the opposite direction since they're on the other side of this planet. If Panic were to suddenly appear in say, Riga, the sum of the velocities means he would crash into the side of the receiving chamber at 2478 km/hr, or 1,540 mph. You'd be an angry stain, dude.
This might be okay at small distances. Mathefuckingmatics shows that at Hawaii's latitude we could teleport 26 miles East or West and hit the wall of the teleportation machine at 4 mph... if RT puts in some nice padding that's totally doable. And you could go a lot farther the further away you are from the equator. You could also just teleport along longitudinal lines like from Hawaii to Alaska or something, then you'd think all this wouldn't matter. But that's ignoring a whole lot of other variables that also applies to why time travel is totally useless:
Don't forget to calculate the velocities of the Earth and the Moon orbiting each other, or the Earth going around the Sun, or the solar system going around the center of the galaxy, or the acceleration of our galaxy to our local galactic cluster, or the acceleration of everything to who knows where. If you travel back in time even one hour you're popping up in a vacuum because we've travelled zillionz of miles away from there since then. Unless you can teleport at the same time, but then, see above.
The only way it could all work? At the atomic scale that Panic is crying about like a little baby. If we're just manipulating atoms that are already at the destination instead of actually moving anything over, velocity doesn't matter anymore. Score for science, dude. Of course, then you'd have to ask about what would happen to your soul, which is probably something a babyman like you would worry about.
"Every time someone says the word "science" Fugu thinks someone is attacking science. And he rushes to its defense! Isn't science able to handle itself, Fuge? or do you need to protect your precious little science lest it be squashed by things like the big bad media, or perhaps, the intelligent design people?"
Fugu,
It's so beautiful how you prove my point over and over again.
Fugu, maybe the receiving teleportation tank could have squishy walls and/or be mobile and zipping along to allow for the speed differential. You could figure it out using computers (though you could still go with your hand-written calculations instead if you're a really really fast writer).
anyone else ever heard of the element ytterbium before reading the article slashdot references? i would have thought that by now every element would at least sound familiar to me.
"I hate how scientists have to go and make science fiction so boring."
It's ridiculous comments like these that I'm happy to oblige with, Mr. Instigator Man. And you say it like it's a bad thing... I am more than happy to prove your point time and time again as long as you continue to blatantly ask me to! ^_^
P.S.-Stop knocking on my door in your underwear and running away. Weirdo.
You can mine ytterbium from rare mineral veins in the Storm Peaks and the Borean Tundra, about 5 levels after deuterium, saronite, and khorium. Ytterbium swords are almost unstoppable, but they take -10 from your intellect and leach 5 mana every 5 seconds, making them pretty useless to cloth wearers.
Dude....wasn't me.
Ytterbium, totally made for DKs IMO...DK=OP lulz
DUDE. DKs now open to all realms.
Well...That's just. I mean...
Fuuuuuuuuhk.
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