Star Trek fans may be happy to hear that the Air Force has paid to study psychic teleportation.But scientists aren't so thrilled.
The Air Force Research Lab's August "Teleportation Physics Report," posted earlier this week on the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Web site, struck a raw nerve with physicists and critics of wasteful military spending.
In the report, author Eric Davis says psychic teleportation, moving yourself from location to location through mind powers, is "quite real and can be controlled."
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"It is in large part crackpot physics," says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, author of The Physics of Star Trek, a book detailing the physical limits that prevent teleportation. He describes the Air Force report as "some things adapted from reasonable theoretical studies, and other things from nonsensical ones."
Some experts have long criticized what they see as a military sweet tooth for junk science. A "remote viewing" project, for example, undertaken by defense intelligence services and declassified in 1994, sought to see whether psychic powers could be employed to spy on the Soviet Union. The teleportation report "raises questions of scientific quality control at the Air Force," the FAS' Steven Aftergood says.
Davis, a physicist with Warp Drive Metrics of Las Vegas, couldn't be reached for comment. The Air Force paid $25,000 for the report, part of a $20.5 million advanced rocket and missile design contract. The report calls for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments. (emphasis POGO's)
RE: Columbia Shuttle Disaster
There is a phenomena associated with a nasal spray probably German in origin, that when administered affects the sensory capacity. The problem is that subjects are not informed of the intended effect of the spray. There is a possibility that people are being used to test the product without proper informed consent.
The spray is contained in a stainless steel pen like object which the attending physician will pass off as an examination instrument.
The day of the Columbia Shuttle disaster, Kalpana Chawla may have been in the SpaceHab Module and may have been working at an instrumentation panel which was malfunctioning.
Will you check to see if video or software data was recovered to support this perceived information?
Is information posted on the NASA web site accurate? Kalpana is shown in the SpaceHab Module?
My concern is that people like Scott Peterson may be adversely affected if they are subjected to psychological/medical testing without informed consent. It hardly seems possible that this can occur, so I am assuming that if such a spray exists the manufacturer is probably testing without consent to avoid liability. And Scott McVeigh may be another example of an adverse outcome.
See Applied Digital Solutions web site. See Digital Angel web site. Also, Drs Asch and Stone did not seek consent from female patients at the UC Riverside fertility clinics.
My assumption is that Dr Asch and Dr Stone et al are not willing to assume any risk. The patient assumes all the risk and pays a substantial fee for the privilege.
Peter Jennings of ABC news featured the ID implant. The segment did not mention any adverse results from the ID implant?
Posted by: aa | Nov 20, 2004 at 05:14 PM