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Cushman on Sept 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using ac...

Uh huh.

  Scientist: "As you can see here, we've demonstrated quantum teleportation across an unprecedented--"
  Journalist: "Teleportation?! Like in Star Trek?"
  Scientist: "Uh, no. *Quantum* teleportation is a different--"
  Journalist: "So you didn't send anybody through a wormhole or anything?"
  Scientist: "No. What we've demonstrated is the ability to--"
  Journalist: "It just seems like a bit of a mistake to call it 'teleportation'."
  Scientist: "Yes, I can see that now."

zxtang on Sept 9, 2012 | [–]

As always, there's an xkcd for that: http://xkcd.com/465/

waterlesscloud on Sept 9, 2012 | [–]

What do you imagine they thought teleportation meant when they appropriated it?

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