The first teleport step taken At LAST
okay, only a photon but - the first manned flight was not particularly impressive. It would have been impossible to guess, watching the Wright brothers fly 120 feet in their first attempt in 1903, that Lindbergh would, in 1927, fly the Atlantic. Completely impossible to guess that Lindbergh would be a guest of honour watching Apollo 11 head to the moon in 1969.So a photon this week could be a mammal in - how long?
I want to know when I can teleport from London to Edinburgh - an hour and a half, flying time, usually. Because yesterday I got to Stansted at 6 pm and I got to Edinburgh at 11 pm and I'm a bit bored with the conventional ways of getting from A to B.
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My auto fill thingy just won't let me write b i f f...anything BUT b i f f...but not b i f f.
Go figure
So instead of fighting the blasted thing, I just go with what it fills in.
And...it always changes.
Actually, barf ain't all that bad. Really.
I knew a guy we always called Barf. Short for his last name...Barfield.
Haven't checked the exact number, but pretty sure it's under 50
Gotta go.
Must get my feather duster & clean cobwebs from my inbox.
Ms Baby, I see your James or Seamus or whatever he wants to call himself, and raise you TWO Nobel prize winners - Nadine Gordimer and some guy called Coetzee. Or Coetzer.
Once we're talking prizewinners rather than genre, you understand.
Still. I'll happily settle just for it reaching the point where I can travel.
You know what, it's such a good cause, I'd volunteer to be a guinea pig. By then I'll be so decrepit at least I stand a chance of being remembered.
Picture it - Laika the first dog in space,
Biff, the first octogenarian single to be vaporized rushing hopefully off to meet some dodgy fella on the other side of the planet.
Fame.
It is soooo humid here tonight, it's not funny. There's rain due tomorrow and it's thundery feeling. Phew.
Did you miss the part about Chuck being better at EVERYthing than EVERYone? Combined?
Chuck's tears cure cancer. So he WILL receive a Nobel Prize.
If he ever cries.
I know Seamus is an Irish name. It's just that it's a funny Irish name.
Like Ambrose is a funny Murkun name (though not as funny as Shame Us).
BTW - Ambrose Gwinnett (also a funny name) Bierce wrote The Devil's Dictionary. It's a highly sarcastic book ranked as 'One Of The 100 Greatest Masterpieces Of Murkun Literature'.
Granted. 'One Of The 100 Greatest Masterpieces Of Murkun Literature' is like saying 'One Of The 100 Best English Wines', but still...
So there.
My guy has a prize (for sarcasm, mind you) and TWO funny names.
So I still win.
Even without Chuck Norris.
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Maybe, just maybe, it isn't that much of a disaster if I won't be able to teleport in my lifetime. I don't really want to go to Guantanamo Bay, it doesn't sound a whole lot of fun. Poor reviews.
This blog of yours has already amassed 269,000 comments and 625,000 views. Cool!
I wrote a story, a long chaptered story about Teleporting people and things in the future, and the things that can go wrong with it, but mostly how enemies or bad people can get hold of the technology, twist it and turn into chaos and destruction.
My story is titled, "A Perfect Interference." I was going to post it on CS blogs a year or so ago, but it is just much too long.. too many chapters. It does deal with Quantum physics and the good that it can do for the people of the world, but also the terrible ending to most of mankind, should it fall into the wrong hands.
In August 2008, physicist Michio Kaku predicted in Discovery Channel Magazine that a teleportation device similar to those in Star Trek would be invented within 100 years.
-source: Wikipedia, Transporter (Star Trek)
Now, there are Scientists who believe it will happen sooner. I think it will happen sooner.
Just thought I'd tell you about my story. I just may find a way to post a really short version of it, over a few chapters, here on the blogs sometime soon.
When Teleporting becomes possible, all us bloggers will be visiting each other in person.
Mind you, they could think exactly the same about me.
Very impressive indeed!
BUT what have ya got in the line of sarcasm? Hmmmm?
Then again, the OP was about teleportation so I guess SF fits that.
And it's your blog. So I guess you can do whatever you want with it.
30...ish.
It's not all about teleporting, though. You know CS. Blogs go a wee bit off piste sometimes ...
You and Zman are obviously on the same page regarding the dangers
I'm a member in a couple SF writer groups, are you on Goodreads? One of the groups runs a micro story competition every month (winner of the last posts the topic for the next) and it's a terrific way to focus writing skills and bounce opinions off each other - let me know if you want the link / proposal for membership? You'd fit in instantly, most of the writers are US based, a few Europe types and from down under. Good fun.
The mind does boggle a bit at bloggers all getting together and arguing happily in person
Muc, your spellcheck is in the final stages
Sarcasm - Your Ambrose guy is pretty much credited as being up there at the top. Goes back to Roman times, though, some in the top 10 date right back to then. And I do think when it comes to one-liners, our very own Winston Churchill represents us nobly. (I was only first generation Saffer, Brit in all but place of birth, which is handy for this argument)
I'm not really smart enough to understand sarcasm. So often I'd rather take it at face value
And Churchill was one of the best
Lots of fun, though