Teleportation

[Kriton Kyrimis]

HALSTEN:

> some Australian scientists experimenting on teleportation
> (instantaneously moving mass from one point to another). What they wanted
> to do was "copying" an atom from one place to another using information
> technology.

If they are successful, they will have a lot of trouble patenting their
process, given that a similar process has been described elsewhere,
before!  (Wasn't this the case when someone was refused a patent for
his process for raising ships out of the sea bottom, because it was too
similar to Barks' suggestion of stuffing a ship with ping pong balls?)

Actually, from your brief description, I gather that what these people
are working on is not teleportation, but replication. They'll still have
trouble getting a patent, though, as Star Trek has had replicators for
more than a decade. (Tea, Earl Gray, hot, in a cup!)

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
	      	(WWW:    http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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