From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bcb6f63419c2a56b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!nntp.giganews.com.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 08:47:35 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 09:47:34 -0400 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT:fun] Re: Supporting full Unicode References: <6620921.XHr2C6C0OH@linux1.krischik.com><2004513-124616-393026@foorum.com><00b101c4390b$c2a8ea90$310d5451@BACUS> <87fza4vtxj.fsf@insalien.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.90.114 X-Trace: sv3-KO3carw5cLrT+TNRwOlkocOphd4d8x2C/Lzo/gavaZERBaSp4Z5CgyLJkLMfxPck1PJFVoCJ2icLjl5!z98VNPIcKEQq2o24AWm6StQLtrkvTQyeZy2HaeSJoQwuuUIZ3dUJc49RN1i4rA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:611 Date: 2004-05-16T09:47:34-04:00 List-Id: 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.) -- 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