BREAKING: Army scientists successfully 'teleport' Soldiers
By Bob Reinert, USAG Natick Public Affairs April 1, 2016Now THIS is weird. It comes direct from the US ARMY website, dot mil
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Pvt. Kelley McCoy begins to dematerialize as he is successfully "teleported" from Natick to the Grafenwoehr Training Area. (Photo Credit: Army Materiel Command, Army Public Affairs)
VIEW ORIGINALQuoteNATICK, Mass. (April 1, 2016) -- Army scientists have successfully "teleported" a fully equipped squad from a Massachusetts research and development facility to a training area in Germany, the Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) announced today.
The nine human research volunteers, fresh out of Advanced Individual Training, were participating in experiments in the Doriot Climatic Chambers at NSSC when they disappeared and moments later materialized at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, completely unharmed. The chambers are capable of replicating any climate or weather in the world but have never before been used in this manner.
Teleportation, made famous in the "Star Trek" television series and movies, had been -- until what the Army is calling the "Natick incident" -- a hypothetical way of moving objects from place to place. American writer Charles Fort is reported to have coined the word in 1931.
Officials at Natick were elated by the event, which promises to one day revolutionize the way that American troops and equipment are transported around the globe. It also could ultimately make overseas bases obsolete as forces are instead moved from U.S. soil to remote trouble spots in the blink of an eye.
"No one is more impressed by this than I am," said Benjamin Storm, who manages the 61-year-old climatic chambers at Natick. "One moment, I was chatting with the young Soldiers, and the next, they all vanished into thin air."
The Soldiers were dressed in combat gear for the revolutionary experiment and being monitored by Storm and his colleagues when they were sent from one continent to the other. Still photographs of the event were captured in the chambers and have been released by the Army.
After thorough medical examinations at an Army hospital, they were flown back to the U.S. and returned to duty at Natick.
"It's one thing to see Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock do it at the movies, but it's another to have it happen to you in real life," said Pvt. Kelley McCoy, one of the teleported Soldiers. "I felt a little tingling and the next thing you know, I'm in Bavaria. I always wanted to visit Europe, but I figured that I'd go by plane."
Storm and other Natick researchers are now poring over mountains of data from the development in hopes of replicating it. Meanwhile, the Army quickly established a Teleportation Study Task Force, which will be based at Natick. Leading scientists from private industry and academia worldwide are converging on the chambers to lend whatever assistance they can.
According to Storm, a device not unlike the "flux capacitor" seen in the "Back to the Future" movie series was employed during the experiment. This led to immediate speculation that the Army was also working on time travel, but time travel requirements of generating 1.21 gigawatts is no trivial feat.
"We're only concerned with place, not time," said Storm, a twinkle in his eye. "This development could change the entire course of human history."
The Task Force expects to report its initial findings by April Fools' Day, 2017.
https://www.army.mil/article/164802
Quote from: zorgon on March 03, 2017, 11:32:11 PM
Yes it was posted April 1st 2016
Yes it says: "The Task Force expects to report its initial findings by April Fools' Day, 2017."
But seriously... considering our discussions on recent Time Line events and Pegasus' ongoing Portal research, this is just too good to not consider as a 'hidden in plain site' article :D
Well, I think there have been some screwups in the timeline, possibly by these guys. Starting with the election of Obama, the Commie Pinko jerkoff.
Sore subject with me.
Quote from: Irene on March 03, 2017, 11:43:57 PM
Well, I think there have been some screwups in the timeline, possibly by these guys. Starting with the election of Obama, the Commie Pinko jerkoff.
Sore subject with me.
Irene, don't hold back, just come right out and say what is on your mind, take the kid gloves off and let it rip 8)
@Zorgon: April 1st, 2016,eh? And full report by 4/1/2017... :-X
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Seeker
Quote from: the seeker on March 03, 2017, 11:55:09 PM
Zorgon: April 1st, 2016,eh? And full report by 4/1/2017[
Precisely... it is an April Fool's Joke to be sure..
But think for a moment.
The Air Force and the marines posted paid ads on our page on the AF Teleportation Studies, papers that are listed at the official DTIC dot mil site
NASA paid for a couple ads on our "Atmosphere on the Moon" page, one of the links was to a new NASA "atmosphere on the moon study and proposed space craft
And there was THIS
CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force
Cian O'Luanaigh(https://home.cern/sites/home.web.cern.ch/files/image/update-for_the_public/2015/03/light-sabre.jpg)
The Force has proven a popular research tool for the CERN beams department (Image: Max Brice and Daniel Dominguez/CERN)Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider just recently started testing the accelerator for running at the higher energy of 13 TeV, and already they have found new insights into the fundamental structure of the universe. Though four fundamental forces – the strong force, the weak force, the electromagnetic force and gravity – have been well documented and confirmed in experiments over the years, CERN announced today the first unequivocal evidence for the Force. "Very impressive, this result is," said a diminutive green spokesperson for the laboratory.
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CERN librarian Tullio Basaglia has learnt to harness the Force to return reference books to their shelves (Image: Max Brice and Daniel Dominguez/CERN)
"The Force is what gives a particle physicist his powers," said CERN theorist Ben Kenobi of the University of Mos Eisley, Tatooine. "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us; and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."
Though researchers are as yet unsure what exactly causes the Force, students and professors at the laboratory have already started to harness its power. Practical applications so far include long-distance communication, influencing minds, and lifting heavy things out of swamps.
Kenobi says he first started teaching the ways of the Force to a young lady who was having trouble revising for her particle-physics exams. "She said that I was her only hope," says Kenobi. "So I just kinda took it from there. I designed an experiment to detect the Force, and passed on my knowledge."
Kenobi's seminal paper "May the Force be with EU" – a strong argument that his experiment should be built in Europe – persuaded the CERN Council to finance the installation of dozens of new R2 units for the CERN data centre*. These plucky little droids are helping physicists to cope with the flood of data from the laboratory's latest experiment, the Thermodynamic Injection Energy (TIE) detector, recently installed at the LHC.
"We're very pleased with this new addition to CERN's accelerator complex," said data analyst Luke Daniels of human-cyborg relations. "The TIE detector has provided us with plenty of action, and what's more it makes a really cool sound when the beams shoot out of it."
But the research community is divided over the discovery. Dark-matter researcher Dave Vader was unimpressed, breathing heavily in disgust throughout the press conference announcing the results, and dismissing the cosmological implications of the Force with the quip "Asteroids do not concern me".
Rumours are growing that this rogue researcher hopes to delve into the Dark Side of the Standard Model, and could even build his own research station some day. With the academic community split, many are tempted by Vader's invitations to study the Dark Side, especially researchers working with red lasers, and anyone really with an evil streak who looks good in dark robes.
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CERN physicist Valerio Rossetti harnesses the Force for more mundane tasks, such as reheating coffee (Image: Max Brice and Daniel Dominguez/CERN)
"We hope to continue to study the Force, and perhaps use it to open doors with our minds and fly around and stuff," said TIE experimentalist Fan Buoi. "Right now, to be honest, I don't really care how it works. The theory department have some crackpot idea about life forms called midi-chlorians, but frankly I think that poorly thought out explanations like that just detract from how cool the Force really is."
With the research ongoing, many at CERN are already predicting that the Force will awaken later this year.
*Sources close to the Data Centre later revealed that these were not the droids they were looking for.
https://home.cern/about/updates/2015/04/cern-researchers-confirm-existence-force
Update 2 April 2015: Enjoy our April fool? But seriously folks, this week CERN is busy with restarting the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
I know, Z; sometimes the most direct way to stimulate thought and plant a seed to grow is by being able to use a touch of blarney; something they regard as a joke or foolishness will stick in their minds faster than a scientific article about the same ::)
I did like the Gaelic they used- Cian O'Luanaigh( pronounced see-an ol-loo-ney)
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Perhaps we are moving our grip from the tip of the cat's tail a little higher...
if anyone besides us notices it :P
Seeker
As long as they don't teleport into my lounge room, I'll give them a bloody good talking to and tell them to PO.