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Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 16 km In China
Laxori666 writes "Scientists in China have succeeded in teleporting information between photons farther than ever before. They transported quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km (10 miles), much farther than the few hundred meters previously achieved, which brings us closer to transmitting information over long distances without the need for a traditional signal."
Happens all the time. Mainland Chinese have a huge thing about "face" and prestige, but evidently, it doesn't extend to not lying and stealing compuslively to make yourself look better. Their little brains don't understand that you lose a LOT of face when everyone sees you as a liar and thief.
I'm a geek. xkcd is shit.
If you think it's funny it's because you enjoy it as a watered down accessible nerd-cred outlet, a teat at which you can suck along with all the other nerds who identify with its i'm so lonely wont somebody please kiss me megan look at how much i do science message. Then you can post smug comments on slashdot suggesting that you have to be intelligent to like xkcd, and someone else can reply to you in a similar fashion (like the astonishingly obnoxious +2 funny post beneath you), and other people can mod you up to +5 insightful, and it's a nice little substitute for real group inclusion and real social interaction.
To be delicate.