The first teleport step taken At LAST

teleportation would be wonderful, especially during family gatherings.

Wouldn't it just? Although being able to pick up my handbag and go straight from my own doorstep is unlikely to be in my lifetime

we should try out all of the modes of transportation and write about our experiences! in the future, people won't have a clue.

Johnny, time travel is my absolute favourite dream. However was it Einstein who said it is possible to know where we are in space, or where we are in time, but not both?

Don't quote me, I'm probably wrong on either the quote or the quoter but for time travel to be possible, all times would have to be live and active all the time and happening simultaneously and I don't think that's possible

I do think it's possible teleporting is slightly further advanced, and more experiments have happened, than we are told but that may be wishful thinking on my part!

Free, funny you should say that, I am mid-whinge right now

Yes we should. Travel stories could be as unimaginable, in 50 years time, as teleportation is to us now.

it sounds like a nightclub.

Well, I´m done with catching planes after my last nightmare going to Stansted visiting my son 3 years ago. (Ryanair flight!).

Beam me up Scotty!

Back to travel whinge. Grab a coffee.

That reminds me, I need milk. Mine's gone off.

Anyway, so we are sitting on the plane, no ventilation of course on the tarmac, oddly empty plane, an empty seat in nearly every row. No-one else is boarding and the crew can be seen whispering. Finally our captain speaks.

Seems about 3 minutes after we lot got clear of the terminal, a fire alarm went off. Our fellow passengers have been evacuated along with everyone else in that bit. We will have to be patient.

I asked a passing crew member to please at least put the ventilation on and they do, phew.

We wait.

Turns out our missing passengers are now in a giant throng of passengers for every possible destination and they will all have to go through security checks to be fed back to their original boarding gates. This could take a while.

We wait. Those of us with food eat. Those of us with smarties switch them back on and start bothering our friends.

Our captain says the airline is now deciding whether it is quicker to empty the hold of baggage, identify what belongs to the missing (who could after all have deliberately set off the fire alarm) and repack the rest, or to wait for the security checks. He will let us know what they decide.

We wait.

Finally he says as most of the passengers have now been identified anyway, we might as well wait for them anyway.

We wait.

Passengers start to arrive, filled with exciting stories, and those passengers who moved to empty seats are firmly moved back. We taxi out along with every other plane held up by the debacle, and wait for takeoff.

Our pilot took us to Edinburgh so fast the plane was shaking - 40 minutes to do a flight that normally takes an hour and a half. He might as well not have bothered - the ground crew weren't ready for us.

We wait.

I'm only grateful that Scotland and England are currently still part of the same country and we didn't have to go through passport control when we arrived.















I want to be a photon.

I'll let them know, Ooby.

Daniela, whoa, uncanny. Stansted, check. Ryanair, check.

Johnny, never knew you were a fellow SF nut!!

Z, it is a horrible airport. Horrible horrible horrible. I think it is either the first time I went or I managed to block out any previous ones.

I'm good at blocking. Today someone told me I was pretty. Actually I think they said I was pretty annoying, but I have learned to block negatives.

Man I've been waiting for this for soooo long.. and the first thing I'm gonna say is "beam me up.. Molly"...

Red, Daniela's your girl on astral travelling. I've never really got into that whole thing, but turn me into a stream of atoms flowing through the universe and reassembling on the other end and I'm in.

Douglas Adams wrote a poem about it, when it goes wrong, though.

I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.

Non, I think politicians should definitely be the first guinea pigs

Z, if we can't trust a photon what, really, can we trust?

Mic, good call!

These little Freudian slips can get us into so much trouble

Yes normally they do.. but my innocent smile always helps me get away with it without fail..

Ah, you know what, you could yet talk Molly round, you do have the Irish gift of the gab

Lou.. the only thing that frightens me about teleporting is what would happen if we get a power cut right in the middle of the process??

I know we have backup generators and all.. but still.. there could be a complete blackout..

Lou, my perfect world, I would check my reflection, pick up my bag, and between one step and the next, be where I want to be without any fuss. City to city, country to country.

Let me get my hands on the controls, though, and yes I can think of more than one politician - AND their manky supporters - it would be fun to send to a different solar system

Elegs... I'll take that as a compliment..

Baig - any Irishman with the true full-blown gift of the gab could quite simply rule the world, he's just too busy with women to get round to it.

I think in their stride they are quite possibly the most charming men on this planet but you don't get to see them much - their women lure them into fortresses, slam the doors, and they are never seen again

Lou.. I know right? Scary stuff.. yet intriguing as well...

Elegs.. I'm afraid you might be thinking too highly of me.. I'm a simple man.. just like to speak my mind..

Lou.. wow.. it's got an 8.8 rating on imdb.. don't know how I missed this one.. will definitely check it out.. cheers!

Speaking of funny.. have you seen the time travel episode from Black Adder? It was a classic.. Must watch! Lol