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Laser Beam Teleported
Michael Wardle writes "ABC Australia reports that a team of scientists from the Australian National University have successfully teleported a laser beam. It seems that teleportation of solid bodies is still a way off, but at least we're a little closer to Slashdot's favorite super power." Another Australian newspaper has a more detailed story.
Well.... Normally I'd agree with you. Things are what you perceive them to be. However, when people think of teleportation, they inevitably start thinking about "Beam Me Up Scotty" type stuff. Would I be willing to drink a beer that was teleported to me? Hell yeah. Would I be willing to teleport myself to that beer and drink it there? Hell no. Would you?
Team leader Dr Ping Koy Lam says it involved creating a laser beam, its disembodiment and the recreation of the original beam in a different location
The team was understood to be using a device known to insiders as a "video camera", although how it functions exactly was not disclosed during their press release
What if they could scan the original you, make sure they have two or three backups first, and confirm several long checksums of the backups versus the copied you, before they killed the original you? Would it be acceptable then?
Can anyone give a layman's explanation of how the information is getting passed from point a to point b?
Magic.
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As any teleportation device could clearly be used to replicate 'N Sync CDs, its use will be obviously be prohibited by the DMCA.
ok then your [sic] infringing on my copyright! Could you as [sic] me next time before STEALING my comments for your own?
And on the other end they would reconstruct your matter based on that data. But what if recreating one of you, they would recreate two of you.... But my self-preservation instinct doesn't like that idea, and I bet neither does yours.
:)
What could possibly be more self-preserving than being able to keep backups?
deus does not exist but if he does
While the rest of the world has been sleeping we have been busily developing teleportation.
Australia's Teleportation project:
All we needed was Superconductor and Future Tech. In another 2 turns we will also have Genetic Engineering and the SETI Program!
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It's bad enough people are sharing music and movies over the net, the last thing we need is people to start sharing themselves online!
oh, wait...
FreeBSD for the impatient.
**Enterprize is caught in a long range tractor beam
***HACK HACK HACK CHOKE!
Kirk: Rauh! Rauh!
May be we'll create long range tractor beams from the teleporting laser beams?
I have a great idea for a device which will employ this new technology...
How about a device that will teleport the laser back into the eye of the dumbass teenager shooting his laser pointer on the movie theater screen?
-- We live in a world where lemonade is artificial and soap has real lemon.
What if they could scan the original you, make sure they have two or three backups first, and confirm several long checksums of the backups versus the copied you, before they killed the original you? Would it be acceptable then?
Um. If I way up after someone makes a copy of me elsewhere, that's proof enough that that person is not me.
"We're not killing you, just turning off your body here; you're really now in Paris. Trust me. Be still!"
Get off my launchpad!
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Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
They must still be building it up painstakingly from bits they teleported from somewhere else :-)
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I teleported home one night,
With Ron and Sid and Meg.
Ron stole Meggie's heart away,
And I got Sidney's leg.
"Information wants to be paid"