US Air Force wastes $25K - where is Hal?

[RichardR]

I realize $25K is small potatoes, but on research into teleportation?

The United States military is studying the feasibility of teleportation, "beaming up" people such as Osama Bin Laden or sending defense teams to difficult-to-reach locales.

The Scripps Howard News Service has picked up a story which quotes Ranney Adams, a spokesperson for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base, as saying it would be ideal if the military could send soldiers to remote spots via teleportation. "But we're not there [yet]," he added.

The Air Force spent $25,000 last year on a study of teleportation physics to consider means of transporting people and cargo through space, though physicists said that the obstacles in terms of energy expenditure and data transfer are enormous.

What next - research into remote viewing? (Oh, they already did?)

Seriously, isn't this why we have Hal Bidlack under cover at the USAF?

(Info from Lord Runolfr.)

 

[Bronze Dog]

I realize $25K is small potatoes, but on research into teleportation?

What? Again?

 

[CFLarsen]

US Air Force researches teleportation.

Bidlack goes missing.

...........waiting for the other shoe to drop....

 

[NoZed Avenger]

I blame Jeff.

 

[Anti_Hypeman]

Im betting the money trail leads back to Halliburton. I suspect very little chance the research was actually done its just the excuse for writing the check and countless others.

 

[Wudang]

Isn't 25k the list price for the boxed set of Star Trek DVDs?

 

[Soapy Sam]

Im betting the money trail leads back to Halliburton. I suspect very little chance the research was actually done its just the excuse for writing the check and countless others.

OI! I work for Halliburton!

Actually- and this is a secret, so don't post it on the internet or anything- current top secret Halliburton research involves the teleportation of holes.

Holes are ideal. No mass problem, you see. We use Fitzgerald - Lorenz contraction to compress them really small and transport them at lightspeed to the desired location. Then we put them in the ground, expand them and watch the oil flow out. We can put them in sideways for tunnels.
To confuse other energy companies, we put a drilling rig on top and make it look like the hole was drilled, but that's just camouflage.

 

[kmortis]

OI! I work for Halliburton!

Actually- and this is a secret, so don't post it on the internet or anything- current top secret Halliburton research involves the teleportation of holes.

Holes are ideal. No mass problem, you see. We use Fitzgerald - Lorenz contraction to compress them really small and transport them at lightspeed to the desired location. Then we put them in the ground, expand them and watch the oil flow out. We can put them in sideways for tunnels.
To confuse other energy companies, we put a drilling rig on top and make it look like the hole was drilled, but that's just camouflage.

(sniff) A brother Defence contractor. I'm so happy.(/sniff)
Well, I guess it's easier to teleport holes rather than those pesky electrons.

 

[Adrian]

25K is nothing in Military spending terms. We should always be investigating strange and seemingly impossible options. Sometimes they turn out to be complete crap and sometimes they lead to the invention of the microwave. 25K isn't too much to through away on a near impossibility.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Actually- and this is a secret, so don't post it on the internet or anything- current top secret Halliburton research involves the teleportation of holes.

Holes are ideal. No mass problem, you see. We use Fitzgerald - Lorenz contraction to compress them really small and transport them at lightspeed to the desired location. Then we put them in the ground, expand them and watch the oil flow out. We can put them in sideways for tunnels.
To confuse other energy companies, we put a drilling rig on top and make it look like the hole was drilled, but that's just camouflage.

Hello?!?!? That's been around for years. Calvin Q. Calculus invented the portable hole years ago!

 

[kmortis]

25K is nothing in Military spending terms. We should always be investigating strange and seemingly impossible options. Sometimes they turn out to be complete crap and sometimes they lead to the invention of the microwave. 25K isn't too much to through away on a near impossibility.

That's true, I don't think that I could submit a bid for just my work for less than 10k. And that's without a qual test effort. I had some co-irkers at my previous place of employment that spent scarey amounts of time on fuel cell research, even before something approaching an affordable fuel source was known.