Re: [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net>]

Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Um, a few years ago, QM results started showing up that made me think 
that magic was pretty old hat.  Let's see: quantum teleportation, 
Bose-Einstein condensates, viewing without observing, the Nimtz work on 
superluminal communication, global causality violation, evaporating 
black holes, and of course, the EPR Paradox.

The funniest I thought was a paper from the Nimtz group showing that 
their work could NOT, in most circumstances, be used to build a time 
machine. (No, that dosen't imply that you can use it to make a time 
machine other circumstances.  It merely says that if you add a time 
machine to a superluminal communication device, both will still work. If 
you don't have a time machine to start with, you can't add Nimtz style 
superluminal commication and get one.)

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                                           Robert I. Eachus

"The terrorist enemy holds no territory, defends no population, is 
unconstrained by rules of warfare, and respects no law of morality. Such 
an enemy cannot be deterred, contained, appeased or negotiated with. It 
can only be destroyed--and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the business 
at hand."  -- Dick Cheney