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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 11:55 PM Original message |
Cool! Wikileaks Cable on Chinese Experimentation with Quantum Teleportation and More |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. oh and this bit about nuclear fusion... |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 04:07 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. They're wasting their time, tokamaks are too lossy and inefficient a design. nt |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:42 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Well, you would know more about it |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:07 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I know that countries around the world have wasted billions on tokamak research for decades. |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. Interesting... |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:14 AM Response to Original message |
3. The extreme irony is that if the US had invested in this technology |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:48 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Maybe they were. China is one of the most likely sources for the stuff. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. My quantum statistics prof. was Chinese. |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:55 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. girl gone mad |
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OneGrassRoot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
4. ... |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
5. Alpha Centauri is monitoring this closely. |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
6. Unbreakable encryption would be an enormously useful thing to have, and an enormously damaging... |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Technically, we already have unbreakable encryption |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Really, there's no such thing as "unbreakable encryption." |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:34 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. True |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
7. We were investing in this tech |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:57 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. We buy the cheap Chinese computer junk and live it up. They live frugally |
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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Yes it would |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:13 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. There is one weak link in that chain |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
8. I for one welcome our teleporting Chinese overlords. |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. LOL |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 03:32 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. If it will transport them into this century, I'm in favor of it. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-06-10 05:35 AM Response to Original message |
17. TIME Sept 9, 2010: "China's Great (Quantum) Leap Forward" |
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