Russia aims to develop 'teleportation' in 20 years (by 2035)

A proposed multi-trillion pound strategic development program drawn up for Vladimir Putin would seek to develop teleportation by 2035.

"It sounds fantastical today, but there have been successful experiments at Stanford at the molecular level," Alexander Galitsky, a prominent investor in the country's technology sector, told Russia's Kommersant daily on Wednesday. "Much of the tech we have today was drawn from science fiction films 20 years ago."

The Star-Trek style target is listed in the National Technological Initiative, a state-sponsored strategic development plan designed pour investment into research and development sector in a number of key sectors.

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This is a $2.1 TRILLION roadmap which also includes other technological advances as well.

And while scientists in 2014 at Delft University successfully teleported information encoded into subatomic particles with 100% accuracy, this is so very far off from the kind of teleportation we're used to seeing in shows like Star Trek, Stargate, etc.

It will take a massively powerful computer to teleport just inanimate objects, let alone living beings. I think teleportation will be a little farther off than 20-years.

a reply to: _BoneZ_

Who needs to send a biological entity, when one could send an automaton?

Just a thought.

originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: _BoneZ_

Who needs to send a biological entity, when one could send an automaton?

Just a thought.

Yes; nanobot assassins!

a reply to: DJW001

Screw nanobots.

Giant mecha appears out of no where, and immediately hoses down an entire city with shells the size of a Buick, from the biggest multi barrel weapon ever devised...

Then there's the problem of "All of a sudden, NUKE!"

Russians managed to create ghost cars that appear out of nowhere. Perhaps they can do the same with hovercraft and aircraft carriers.

Aren't poltergeists supposed to teleport and levitate objects? The theory was that they could modify the spins of electrons so that pairs were in opposite alignment so that the object had no net electric charge.

Considering that most scientist concede it's a possibility on some level, don't you need to be the first to do it from a national security standpoint?

Finally, another race worth watching. Get on it Obama.

originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: DJW001

Screw nanobots.

Giant mecha appears out of no where, and immediately hoses down an entire city with shells the size of a Buick, from the biggest multi barrel weapon ever devised...

Then there's the problem of "All of a sudden, NUKE!"

That sort of blows the "plausible deniability" thing, doesn't it?

a reply to: _BoneZ_

What they need to work on is hot female androids. I wouldn't need to leave my house.

I'm aiming for an invisibility ring by this December!

a reply to: DJW001

That's fine by me.

Denying culpability for such an act would be dishonourable. I bloody well insist that leaders have the decency to be honest about these sorts of things.

No non-denials. Just "yes, we teleport nuked your city. You are considering reprisals. However, the operative words in my first sentence were teleport and nuked. Think about it."

a reply to: TrueBrit

Hmm I guess the good news is it will save a ton in terrible and otherwise fighter/bomber platforms

a reply to: BlueJacket

Exactly!

No real time between deployment and detonation either!

This still doesn't get around the fact that in teleportation you have to scan & destroy the source and then produce a perfect copy elsewhere. That won't fly for a number of reasons, first of which is that you'd have to arrive at the power to create a human from scratch almost instantly, which is probably going to be a moral dilemma for many (also it would need to be a completely intact copy, without error, down to every bit of brain/thought storage up to the second it was scanned and destroyed). Teleporting a bit of info on a sub-atomic level is one thing, this isn't gonna happen. Very little info in this article, which is not surprising considering the claim (or planned claim anyway).

a reply to: _BoneZ_

The real question is as follows: are they being moved, or copied?
One scenario is teleportation, the other is cloning with a side of murder.

originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: _BoneZ_

Who needs to send a biological entity, when one could send an automaton?

Just a thought.

Because its all about sending a living entity. You're not at all worried Russia will use unwilling human test subjects?

originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: BlueJacket

Exactly!

No real time between deployment and detonation either!

What happens when a Middle man sends it straight back at ya!

We're all going to end up with our heads on backward!!!

originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: DJW001

Screw nanobots.

Giant mecha appears out of no where, and immediately hoses down an entire city with shells the size of a Buick, from the biggest multi barrel weapon ever devised...

Then there's the problem of "All of a sudden, NUKE!"

Could be even worst. The sun instantly teleports to Earth!

originally posted by: mOjOm
We're all going to end up with our heads on backward!!!

Or this. People will be complaining about seeing aliens.

a reply to: _BoneZ_

Exponential Growth.

We have 2 scenarios to face:

- Moores Law has an upper limit, and the increase in technological innovation will slow
- Moores law remains true, and we enter a phase of exponential growth in technology over the next 5-10 years. A period where what took years to achieve 100 years ago takes a day to achieve. Although frankly, the innovations that happen day to day right now would have taken years, maybe decades, to achieve 100 years ago.

The general consensus seems to be that we have an explosion in innovation just over the horizon, and strong AI occuring quite soon afterwards. Whether the consensus is true or not, its interesting times.