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Siberia
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 Posted - 11/07/2004 : 07:53:13 [Permalink]
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Shit, I wish I had that pocket change.
Seriously, man. Why not fund psychics, instead of, oh, stem cell research, which would benefit the entire world population? Nah, better to be in somebody's wildest dreams. |
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beskeptigal
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Siberia
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Posted - 11/07/2004 : 13:36:48 [Permalink]
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Well, what I saw from that space.com link was, they'd plans about physics, quantum mechanics and such, but ended picking psychic... oh well, makes me feel warmer inside.
Edited for coherence. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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| Edited by - Siberia on 11/07/2004 13:38:41 |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/07/2004 : 14:10:31 [Permalink]
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Just trying to keep things in perspective.  |
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Dude
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Posted - 11/07/2004 : 15:56:07 [Permalink]
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Unfortunately, despite a lot of very impressive math, he seems to settle on p-teleportation as the most likely recommendation for further study, saying
"P-Teleportation, if verified, would represent a phenomenon that could offer potential high-payoff military, intelligence and commercial applications. This phenomenon could generate a dramatic revolution in technology, which would result from a dramatic paradigm shift in science. Anomalies are the key to all paradigm shifts!"
p-teleportation is what this nutjob is calling psychic teleportation.
Can we get the person who authorized this research FIRED? Or atleast drawn and quartered? |
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Ricky
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Posted - 11/07/2004 : 18:10:06 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dude
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Unfortunately, despite a lot of very impressive math, he seems to settle on p-teleportation as the most likely recommendation for further study, saying
"P-Teleportation, if verified, would represent a phenomenon that could offer potential high-payoff military, intelligence and commercial applications. This phenomenon could generate a dramatic revolution in technology, which would result from a dramatic paradigm shift in science. Anomalies are the key to all paradigm shifts!"
p-teleportation is what this nutjob is calling psychic teleportation.
Can we get the person who authorized this research FIRED? Or atleast drawn and quartered?
Did he ever say its the most likely one? Did he every say that this is the one they will be investigating the most? No, he just said that this is the one that if found to be true would have the most benefit. That statement is completely true. If you could transport something without some sort of cross-dimensonal wormhole and a "stargate" and other expensive equipment. If you could just do it magically, this would be the largest benefit.
I think the entire thing is crazy, thats just the worst part of it. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 11/08/2004 : 09:26:40 [Permalink]
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Per the report, the recommendation is that vm-teleportation get two $80K studies, to determine future funding, as does c-teleportation. The recommendation for q-teleportation is for a variety of programs totaling up to almost $50 million over the next five or six years. And p-teleportation - the psychic one - gets a one-year $80K definition study, followed by up to $7.5 million over the five years after that.
Because of the lack of citation of articles describing the shortfalls of the research into telekinesis and other phenomena (and they are numerous), the author of the report obviously believes that psychic teleportation happens, and is a worthwhile research program. |
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