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Air Force report calls for $7.5M to study psychic teleportation
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But scientists aren't so thrilled.
The Air Force Research Lab's August "Teleportation Physics Report," posted earlier this week on the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Web site, struck a raw nerve with physicists and critics of wasteful military spending.
In the report, author Eric Davis says psychic teleportation, moving yourself from location to location through mind powers, is "quite real and can be controlled." The 88-page report also reviews a range of teleportation concepts and experiments:
Quantum teleportation, a technique demonstrated in the last decade that shifts the characteristics, but not the location, of sub-atomic particles at great distances.
Wormholes, a highly theoretical possibility whereby the intense gravitational field near black holes could rip open entrances to distant locales.
Psychokinesis, or psychic teleportation. In support of the idea, the report cites UFO reports, Soviet and Chinese studies of psychics and U.S. military studies of spoon-bending phenomena.
"It is in large part crackpot physics," says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, author of The Physics of Star Trek, a book detailing the physical limits that prevent teleportation. He describes the Air Force report as "some things adapted from reasonable theoretical studies, and other things from nonsensical ones."
Some experts have long criticized what they see as a military sweet tooth for junk science. A "remote viewing" project, for example, undertaken by defense intelligence services and declassified in 1994, sought to see whether psychic powers could be employed to spy on the Soviet Union. The teleportation report "raises questions of scientific quality control at the Air Force," the FAS' Steven Aftergood says.
Davis, a physicist with Warp Drive Metrics of Las Vegas, couldn't be reached for comment. The Air Force paid $25,000 for the report, part of a $20.5 million advanced rocket and missile design contract. The report calls for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments.
"The views expressed in the report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Air Force, the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government," says an Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) statement sent to USA TODAY. "There are no plans by the AFRL Propulsion Directorate for additional funding on this contract."
Explaining why the lab sponsored the study, AFRL spokesman Ranney Adams said, "If we don't turn over stones, we don't know if we have missed something." " (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-11-05-teleportation_x.htm)
Oh snap! I have a good feeling they will not succesfully do this, but it's worth a shot.
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What a great way to spend tax money. They can give me the $7.5 million and I can tell them exactly how to do it, but of course you need the brain capacity to do it.
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Oh damn.
That sounds fun. If thats even feasible (never done any research on it. Thought it was just crackpot X-men crap) that'd be great.
What was the name of that character on x-men, the Nightstalker?
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what a waste of money
Is this to please ST fans or what?
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LOL!
I read this also on space.com....great read, and interesting info
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He had to have line of sight? But couldn't he teleport into closed rooms and stuff? I could swear that all he needed is to "know" where he is going....
Or maybe i'm stupid
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Hey good science, bad science, all that matters is research, even if its bullshit, what they may find may be pratical as a side effect. Alot of todays technology are spin -offs from the late 60's space travel research.
Even if teleportation turns out to be crap, maybe they can find alternative energy sources, a new way of genetherapy, maybe a new way of conception...< I swear honey my seed teleported from me into that beautiful strange woman, it's not my fault>
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Wasn't it Clarke who said "any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishible from magic" ?
Don't knock it, anything researched with proper methods is worth looking into. . .
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yea but do you really think they did any reasurch or find anything to support this or did someone have an idea and they just give him 7.5 million to do whatever he wants
it sounds like they didnt have any research at all and they just gave them money to look into something thats not even posible by any means.
if they did do resurch and maybe have some person who can use his mind to teliport around and he convinced some pll into giving him money then hell yea do research find out how he does it and make it a household ability :P
but i really dought that happened so i say its a waist of money and could be used to find a diffrent power source like cold fution or antimater or some thing like that
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