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United States Patent Application 20060071122

Full body teleportation system

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor ("he") personally experienced a full-body teleportation while walking to the bus stop (A) along a road (B) that runs perpendicular to the nearby commercial airport runways where planes are landing. There is a wide iron grating (D) for water drainage that crosses the road at the center of the bus stop. The grating width is such that one has to make a concerted effort to jump across it in order to get from one side to the other. Approximately 50 meters from the iron grating, he (E) felt a vertical wave (F), similar to a flag waving in the breeze, traveling down the street toward the bus stop. The wave velocity was about 1 meter per second, which was slightly faster than his walking speed. In the next instance, he (G) found himself down the street near the corner of the next block. Realizing that he had passed the bus stop, he turned around to see the iron grating approximately 50 meters up the street in back of him. Because there was no recollection of having jumped across the iron grating nor of having passed the bus stop's yellow marker line, he realized that he had been teleported a distance of 100 meters while moving along with the traveling wave. It was obvious that the wave was pulsed because the front edge overtook the inventor, moved with him momentarily, and then the back edge of wave left him as it moved on down the street. While contemplating this sequence of events, he then looked up and saw in a span of a few seconds a twin-turboprop airplane (C) in the distance crossing above the road while making a shallow descent in order to land at the airport.

I don't know what is more bizarre - the fact that somebody actually spent time and money to file this application, or that the USPTO actually published it.

The truth is always funnier :P

Anyway "full body teleportation" events happen quite routinely in the lab.

Sometimes I would walk somewhere in the lab and forget why I walked there.

Then I would walk back to my bench and suddenly remember that I was going to get stuff from the freezer, which I overshot by 3 metres.

Every day you will meet some person wear that same puzzled look on his/her face, stop suddenly and head back towards some freezer or tissue culture room.

We were lost... in hyperspace.