Looks like GA is done for...

Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ion/index.html



Kirk
PPL-ASEL

They are going about it all wrong.
There needs to be a beam somewhere in the equation.
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Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ion/index.html



Kirk
PPL-ASEL

On Oct 12, 4:49 am, Kirk Ellis
wrote:
Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ortation/index....

Kirk
PPL-ASEL

Great, so now everyone can destroy themselves only to have an exact
duplicate of them created someplace else. Teleportation or cloning?

Kirk Ellis kae wrote:
Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ion/index.html


We're actually gonna have a Transporter someday!

On the other hand, do you really want a Stargate or Transporter controlled
by Windows? Whole 'nother meaning to the Blue Screen of Death.

(*chortle*)

Blanche wrote:
Kirk Ellis kae wrote:

Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ion/index.html



We're actually gonna have a Transporter someday!

I'd be happy just to have a transponder.

Blanche wrote:
Kirk Ellis kae wrote:
Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ion/index.html


We're actually gonna have a Transporter someday!

Not bloody likely.

First you would have to be able to convert a standard 190 lb mass to
energy, store and transport the energy to somewhere else, convert
the energy back to matter, all without loss.

Do a back of the envelope estimate of the energy involved here.

Then there is the problem of momentum.

Joe teleports form 30 degrees north to 40 degrees north.

When he arrives, how do you keep him from flying off the receiving
teleport pad from his momentum?

On the other hand, do you really want a Stargate or Transporter controlled
by Windows? Whole 'nother meaning to the Blue Screen of Death.

(*chortle*)

The bugs in Vista will be fixed by then...

--
Jim Pennino

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On Oct 12, 9:35 am, wrote:
Blanche wrote:
Kirk Ellis kae wrote:
Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ortation/index....

We're actually gonna have a Transporter someday!

Not bloody likely.

First you would have to be able to convert a standard 190 lb mass to
energy, store and transport the energy to somewhere else, convert
the energy back to matter, all without loss.

Do a back of the envelope estimate of the energy involved here.

I don't think energy will be a problem in the future. I'm sure packet
sized reactors will be common. Converting a mass into energy is almost
trivial. The challenge is in reassembling everything, not just exactly
as its suppose to be but quick enough that it stabalizes. You don't
want 1/2 a cell sitting around for 1/2 a second.

-Robert

On Oct 12, 12:08 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:
On Oct 12, 9:35 am, wrote:





Blanche wrote:
Kirk Ellis kae wrote:
Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science...ortation/index....

We're actually gonna have a Transporter someday!

Not bloody likely.

First you would have to be able to convert a standard 190 lb mass to
energy, store and transport the energy to somewhere else, convert
the energy back to matter, all without loss.

Do a back of the envelope estimate of the energy involved here.

I don't think energy will be a problem in the future. I'm sure packet
sized reactors will be common. Converting a mass into energy is almost
trivial. The challenge is in reassembling everything, not just exactly
as its suppose to be but quick enough that it stabalizes. You don't
want 1/2 a cell sitting around for 1/2 a second.

-Robert- Hide quoted text -

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The problem I have with a transporter is...it kills you. Sure it
makes a nice exact duplicate of you somewhere else. But you are still
dead, even if your copy lives on.

Then the discussions about fuel costs, user's fees and what REALLY
makes an airplane fly will be replaced with discussions on power grid
anomalies, utility company charges, and what REALLY is going on when
your subatomic particles are split apart and reassembled.

Whew! I thought this was gonna be a thread about what happens to the
space-time continuum (and GA, too) when the "Inventor of the Internet"
wins the Nobel Peace Prize...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Robert,

I don't think energy will be a problem in the future.


If you're talking more energy than there is in the whole known
universe, it will be.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)