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How the new teletransporter will affect the secrecy of Bigfoot?

Francisco Miraval

Sometimes the stories in the news overlap in strange and almost irreverent sequences, creating a mental image of seemingly ridiculous questions, including the one we use as the title for our column: In what ways the new teletransporter will affect the secrecy of the elusive Bigfoot? The question is based in two recent stories.

One story, published by Mail Online (England) on August 10, 2012, says that a team in China teleported a single proton to a distance of around 60 miles, while another team in the Canary Islands extended that distance to 85 miles. The teletransporter, once part of science fiction movies, is now a reality.

The other story, broadcast on May 21 by Channel 10 in Ohio (10TV.com), reveals that there have been a series of sightings of the mysterious Bigfoot in that state. In fact, on August 23, the Huff Post published a story about a video recently uploaded to YouTube where a strange, tall creature is seeing scaring a cyclist in Ohio.

I wonder why these two stories, written at different times and published by different media outlets, came to me on the same day, almost simultaneously, thus creating in my mind a connection that perhaps exists only in my mind.

Whatever the case, the overlapping of teleportation and Bigfoot caused me to ask myself some questions. How long it will take for the teleporter to teleport more than just a single proton? And how far can a teleporter teleport things?

Assuming I can be teleported instantaneously (which, of course, is the essence to teleportation) to almost any place of my choosing, where I would like to be teleported? And in what was our lives will change once teleportation becomes commonly used? And how much it will cost?

A century and a half ago, or so, people were afraid of traveling inside railroad cars because they feared the speed of the trains will cause the air to leave the cars, causing the death by asphyxia of all the passengers. Do we also have unfounded fears about teleportation?

If railroads helped to create or solidify countries (United States) or empires (England), would the teleporter do something similar for the country or company managing this new technology? In other words, how disruptive will the teleporter be?

There is something else. The early versions of Internet were in use three decades before the commercial versions were available to the public. So, is somebody already using teleportation?

What is the connection with Bigfoot? Not so long ago we thought teleportation was just part of science fiction. Now, teleportation is real. So, what other things we assume to be unreal are in fact real?

Also, perhaps Bigfoot already uses some kind of teleportation enabling him (it?) to appear or disappear at will, as several researchers of Bigfoot suggestion.

There was a time when the telephone and the television were as impossible as the teleporter is today. What monsters would be waiting for us next time we say, Beam me up, Scotty?

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