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May 18, 2006
United States Patent Application 20060071122
It looks like the States is stealing a march on Canadian pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator technology. This is the Avro Arrow all over again* (via Tim Blair).
[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.
I just wish I could get the images to load properly.
*I could tell you the real story of what happened to the Arrow program. Suffice to say that military-industrial interests were at work in scrapping the most advanced interceptor of its day. In many ways its performance was comparable or even superior to today's "stealth" aircraft. By the way, have you ever noticed how The West Wing was sort of like a "shadow cabinet" to the Bush administration?
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 18, 2006 10:11 AM
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Now you're just goading them. =)
Even if the Arrow achieved production and prominence, it important to recall that interceptors of the 50s were one-trick ponies: high speed, short range. Meant to pick off slow-moving Soviet bombers before they could get to population centers. The West wouldn't start paying attention to maneuverability and multi-role capability until after the Vietnam War.
And no Canadian would ever invent better-than-stealth fighter capabilities. According to national myth we are precluded by law, genetics and socialisation from ever believing that a first-strike capability should ever be necessary, much less manufactured, and least of all deployed to the peace-loving Canadian Forces.
Posted by: Chris Taylor ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.ghostofaflea.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 18, 2006 12:33 PM
Guilty as charged. I am baffled by the conspiracy folks. They seem to be unaware, and unconcerned, that ICBMs had rendered the use of long-range bombers for nuclear weapons largely obsolete and the need for costly interceptors in the Canadian north along with them. But then the erstatz nationalists for the Arrow are often not terribly interested in defense.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at May 18, 2006 12:43 PM
Tangential anecdote? Sure! Friend of the family was an Avro Arrow engineer who decided to stay on and got work at the McMichael collection where we were once taken as pre-school tots to have a glacially aged A.Y. Jackson gave me little pats on the head as he asked what I thought about the paintings.
Posted by: Alan McLeod at May 18, 2006 02:45 PM
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