USAF again proves.. Well, just read for yourself.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-11-05 04:42pm

Yahoo Link

7.5Million.

To study Psychic Teleportation.

My. Fucking. God.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-11-05 04:52pm

This is what happens when your military has such a vast budget and no superpower to stand against and absorb all that funding up for men, tanks, planes and ships.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2004-11-05 04:53pm

Oh good god, you're kidding.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-11-05 04:55pm

When you have people who think that "support the military" means "keep giving them more money without asking where it goes", this is what you get.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-11-05 04:55pm

Kidding? The US gov't doesn't kid. This is the same gov't that allowed millions in taxpayers cash and years of study to go into remote viewing programmes for the CIA only because the Soviets were looking into it too (and gave up far earlier than the US).

Surprise, surprise, nothing came of the research other than some quacks who felt it was too secret to reveal their Über Psychic Powers.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2004-11-05 05:02pm

Is it amusing or scarry that they opened the article saying Trekkies will be happy about this?

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-11-05 05:06pm

I think some of this board's heavyweights should consider applying for research grants on turbolasers, lightsabers and repulsorlifts. Psychic teleportation makes them seem downright plausible by comparison.

One must wonder, though: How much does it cost to research anything psychic? It's a people sitting there with strained expressions on their face.

Not working?

"Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around."

Augustus · Post by **Augustus** » 2004-11-05 06:19pm

Darth Wong wrote:When you have people who think that "support the military" means "keep giving them more money without asking where it goes", this is what you get.

Phffft!...Thats nothing!
You should try listening to "Coast to Coast AM" with Art Bell sometime and his endless stream of guests claiming to have worked with the CIA and NSA to use Physic Projection for intelligence gathering...oh wait, this joke just back fired

Post by **fgalkin** » 2004-11-05 06:39pm

Maybe that money is going to fund Randi's Challenge?

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2004-11-05 07:28pm

Try this: Brain in a dish flies plane

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-11-05 07:41pm

Julhelm wrote:Try this: Brain in a dish flies plane

I posted this in SLAM some time ago. And this is far from the first time the US has pissed away military dollars. During the UFO crazy the military built and designed their very own flying saucer, just to discover--surprise, surprise--that a disk is not a very good shape for an aircraft.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2004-11-05 07:50pm

I thought that saucer was canadian.

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2004-11-05 07:53pm

This reminds me of SomethingAwful's new flash tub, 'Cobra Commander 04'.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-11-05 08:08pm

Congress did not approve of the "airborne mega death ray" project so other ways to fund it had to be found.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-11-05 08:13pm

In comparison, they'd have actually made more use of the cash in funding a Tesla like super death ray rather than this crap.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-11-05 11:29pm

Yes, but if P-T works, imagine the range you can get on your missiles...

dragon · Post by **dragon** » 2004-11-15 05:44pm

Here you guys go the complete report all 88 pages of it.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/teleport.pdf

Really interesting read really full of it but oh well.

egyptfrk · Post by **egyptfrk** » 2004-11-15 05:58pm

"If we don't turn over stones, we don't know if we have missed something."

Does it hurt to be that stupid/ignorant?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2004-11-15 06:02pm

Julhelm wrote:I thought that saucer was canadian.

For all I know, Canada made one, too, but I distinctly recall watching a video of this saucer, covered in pictures of the US flag, flying (predicatly) very poorly. The thing could only stay up in the air for a few seconds at a time. I think the Wright bros. plane could've outdone it.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-11-15 06:48pm

We bought it from the Canadians.

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-11-15 07:01pm

They could have bought how many flak jackets and inserts with this?

Motherfuckers! Once again the Corp has been screwed.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-11-15 07:14pm

Good damn it. This is a classic case of Nation Defense Stupidity. I'm sure we could have put this money to much, much better use. If nothing else paying soldiers benefits.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2004-11-16 02:35pm

I propose that we spend this money on something more useful, like an anti-sun-missile! That big, glowing ball has kept it´s smoldering grip on this world for too long!

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2004-11-16 02:52pm

see? budget cuts are good.

"you bought what, general?"