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Good discussion, but I think we\'ve gotten Off-Topic, so let\'s continue it over there.

I want one of those fly devices.

Imagine what I could do with that.... Oh yeah! :evil:

Originally posted by Toxical
To store your entire genetic structure, meaning who you are, down to the scar on your arm, would require a massive amount of storage space, even if they could blast you to atoms, and then make you appear 2000 miles away, it is not possible at the moment because of storage

Why would it not be possible because of storage? I think it would take a few hundred Petrabytes if they wanted to store all of that data but if they are just transmiting it why would they need to store it?

"The US govt. was actually experimenting with teleportation and time travel back in the 50s and 60s. They got a whole destroyer class ship to disappear but when it came back it was all phucked up. Some of the crew didn\'t come back and others were actually fused with the ship itself." - Gohan

Actually, they weren\'t experimenting with Teleportation at all, but rather stealth technology. After the advent of Radar durring WWII, America knew that they had to find something to cloak their planes and battleships from enemy detetion. The story goes, that American and immigrant German scientists created a device that could bend light and sound around the "cloaked" object rendering it invisible to both the eye and to Radar. However this theory, in practice, had wildly unpredictable results... as Gohan already pointed out. It was called the Philidelphia Experiment and it\'s a technomyth.

Technomyths are the modern day equivilent to Hercules, Dragons, and Leprichauns. The reasoning goes, since we\'ve lost all the old myths to scienence.. we use science to create new myths. Aliens in Area 51, BigFoot, Philidelphia Experiment, a carberator that can get 100 miles to the gallon.. they all fall under the real of Technomyths.

Also, Vivi.. like Aaron and everyone else said.. "StarTrek" teleportation is a long ways off. The computers of the 80\'s were so slow and underpowered, that there\'s no way even the supercomputers of the day could manage to even scratch the surface of the power needed to manage teleportation. However, Tricorders ARE a reality. I saw them on the Discovery channel. They\'re very primitive right now, and can only detect the basic proximity and matter properties of objects in a room adjecent to one yer using the device in. I.E., you could tell that there was a large metal object about the size of a coffee table sitting infront of another object made out of several different materals. (couch).. but it was nowhere near as accurate or powerful enough to be of any use right now. A couple of years of research and upgrades as well as the incorperation of new discoveries however.... well we\'ll see.

Since when was Area 51 a myth?

N-E-Ways, In this technomyth what were the results?

I know what that time travel experiment was called, the Philedelphia.

I have so much useless information

Originally posted by ViVi
I know what that time travel experiment was called, the Philedelphia.

I have so much useless information

I saw that movie!  It was pretty boring.

"Since when was Area 51 a myth?" - Gohan

Since it hasn\'t been prooven yet.

"N-E-Ways, In this technomyth what were the results?" - Gohan

The same as you describe. Most of the sailors suffered from severe dimentia, many disappeared, and others were found fused into the bulkheads. There\'s also a story of 3 confused sailors walking out of thin air into a pub on the other side of the country. Soon after they appeared, they dematerialized. Rumor has it, even though the results we\'re the desired ones, the Gov\'t decided to continue research on the project and have been experimenting with teleportation/timetravel for some time now. One of the top researchers for the Philidelphia experiment (don\'t remember the name) was even found dead of carbon monoxide poisioning in his car after supposedly threatening to go public.