Norway spiral. The anatomy of an event. Very interesting.

[Ed Jewett]

[Insert standard legalese paragraph here about no claims being made in the forthcoming...]

[because I might be accused on being an Area 51 extra-terrestrial technology theorist and get my name on some list somewhere]

[but when I was a child -- a mere spec of stardust -- I read a fascinating piece of science fiction written by the well-known Robert Heinlein called "Tunnel in the Sky" about 'a college-level [size=12]Advanced Survival [/SIZE]course that students took at the end of high school. It required them to know how to live through any adverse conditions as preparation to explore and settle alien planets. The final "exam" was to be left on an uninhabited planet with only the supplies one could carry, and still be alive at pickup time 2 to 10 days later. '

'That' text was lifted and altered from http://www.heinleinsociety.org/concordan.../ts_hc.htm ]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_in_the_Sky for more detail about the book, and
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein for the details about this very interesting fellow and his works.

Of note, his fertile mind was credited in this way:

"In Heinlein's works, there are many concepts that have become actual products. What follows is a partial list:

Automatic Light Switches (from "The Man Who Sold The Moon"), Hand dryers (from "Coventry"), Drafting Software (from "The Door Into Summer"), Mobile Phones (called "Pocket Phones" in "Assignment in Eternity"), Moving walkways (called "slidewalks" in "Space Cadet" and "slideways" in "Beyond This Horizon"), Solar panels (from "The Roads Must Roll" and "Coventry"), Waldoes (from "Waldo"), Screensavers (from "Stranger In A Strange Land"), The San Francisco-Oakland BART Transbay Tube (from "Citizen of the Galaxy"), and Waterbeds (from "Double Star" and "Stranger In A Strange Land").





"On test day, each student walks through the Ramsbotham portal...."






















And then there is this recent news article:

Physicists Prove Teleportation of Energy Is Possible

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Teleportation's As Easy As 1-2-3! via Technology Review

Over five years ago, scientists succeeded in teleporting information. Unfortunately, the advance failed to bring us any closer to the Star Trek future we all dream of. Now, researchers in Japan have used the same principles to prove that energy can be teleported in the same fashion as information. Rather than just hastening the dawn of quantum computing, this development could lead to practical, significant changes in energy distribution.
According to the theory, developed by Masahiro Hotta of Tohoku University, Japan, a series of entangled particles could be stretched across an infinite amount of space. By inducing an energy change in one of the particles, the other entangled particles would change as well. Eventually, to preserve conservation of energy, the original particle would be destroyed, with its energy passing to the final particle in the chain. Thus, the energy has been teleported from one particle to another.
Naturally, Hotta doesn't present any blueprint for replacing power lines with teleporting energy, concentrating instead on the implications for studying quantum mechanics. However, with a concept this profound, the implications beyond theory are nearly endless. So let's hear what you've come up with! Commenters, I want to know: how would you use energy teleportation?


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[But before anyone goes making any conclusive leaps, there is this warning:"Beware of the stobor."]



:flybye: