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TICKET TO HYPERSPACE

Patent application of the year:

A pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another.

Further: “The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor personally experienced a full-body teleportation while walking to the bus stop.”

Posted by Tim B. on 05/17/2006 at 01:11 PM
  1. I swear, I know nothing about this.

    (wrings hands)

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 17 at 01:43 PM • permalink

  2. The patent attorney that took this job should be disbarred.

    The “inventor” shouldn’t be given any sharp objects.

    Posted by Merlin on 2006 05 17 at 01:44 PM • permalink

  3. Somebody should publish a book of looney patents…bound in tinfoil.

    Posted by pst314 on 2006 05 17 at 01:51 PM • permalink

  4. Everyone who believes wronwright raise their hands.
    ...

    I thought not.

    Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2006 05 17 at 01:58 PM • permalink

  5. This man is a complete lunatic. Entirely beyond help.

    Doesn’t he realize that a patent application in the US alone will not protect his intellectual property? He may as well just give it away with bags of candy.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 17 at 02:00 PM • permalink

  6. My name is Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I would like to place an order MY pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system.

    You see we have this ‘hidden imam’. His name Mohammed ibn Hasan. He is regarded as the 12th Imam, or righteous descendant of the Prophet Mohammad, and ummmmm, we need to ummmm, pull his ass him out from under a well…and ummmmm…....

    Posted by El Cid on 2006 05 17 at 02:05 PM • permalink

  7. Well, I hope that he caught his bus.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 17 at 02:06 PM • permalink

  8. A pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another.

    I predict it will be genially entertaining for the first five years or so, but eventually will get kind of tired, and then in a gimmicky act of desperation will hire Ben Browder and Claudia Black.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 05 17 at 02:08 PM • permalink

  9. Along these line, I heard of one “inventor” who “invented” a rape protection device:  a 9mm automatic with a whistle welded onto the slide.  The woman was supposed to shoot her attacker while blowing the whistle for help.

    As I was told, a patent attorney accepted this lunatic as a client.  His friends told him to dump the nut, else get shot by the “inventor” with his “invention”. 

    Which is exactly what happened.

    So I’m hoping that the patent attorney for this particular asylum escapee has a taste for exotic travel…...

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 05 17 at 02:10 PM • permalink

  10. Only last weekend I managed to travel from the pub to my bed and I have absolutely no memory of doing so. It was either a wormhole-thingy or the beer.

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 05 17 at 02:14 PM • permalink

  11. Well, I hope that he caught his bus.

    He did, but it turned out to be an outpatient bus to Happydale, so the value of this patent is somewhat questionable.

    Posted by paco on 2006 05 17 at 02:16 PM • permalink

  12. Well, I hope that he caught his bus.

    I suspect his full-body teleportation was right into the path of the oncoming bus, which might explain this patent application.

    Posted by PW on 2006 05 17 at 02:18 PM • permalink

  13. The Chinese will flood the market with them inside of twelve months. They will be on sale in the impulse buy shelves at the checkout in every supermarket and drugstore.

    Mark my words.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 17 at 02:23 PM • permalink

  14. A pulsed gravitational wave wormhole generator system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another.

    Hey, that’s exactly what it says on the cover of the owner’s manual in the glove compartment of . . .the . . .Tardis . . .

    Posted by paco on 2006 05 17 at 02:29 PM • permalink

  15. #9 Yeah, I know, I know, a sad and all too common story.

    Still let’s be fair. It’s not just patent attorneys who try to rape their clients.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 17 at 02:29 PM • permalink

  16. Not so fast, this stuff really works.  Ask any techie….

    If you have a time-division multiplexer in your office and have a power failure at just the wrong time, you can rip a hole in the fabric of space in your office and suck nearby office supplies into the white hole.

    Posted by trainer on 2006 05 17 at 02:31 PM • permalink

  17. How do you figure CAFE standards on that puppy anyway?

    Would this help or hurt:
    Global warming
    Global cooling
    Climate change

    I’m confused!

    Posted by yojimbo on 2006 05 17 at 02:37 PM • permalink

  18. Don’t they call that an Easy Button?  Staples sells a ton of those every day.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 05 17 at 02:38 PM • permalink

  19. I think it must be some kind of Prius version of the Tardis. It takes only one body.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 17 at 02:39 PM • permalink

  20. Geez. T
    hat was a show stopper.

    Did we just get a two minute bomb warning and no-one has told me?

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 17 at 02:47 PM • permalink

  21. Damn, I wish I had applied for a patent on that dingus. I, also, was once teleported….... from the toilet into my bed. On the other hand it could have been gas.

    Posted by Wallace-Midland Texas on 2006 05 17 at 02:59 PM • permalink

  22. ...does Stargate Command know about this?

    Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 05 17 at 03:00 PM • permalink

  23. Man, that last sentence in Tim’s post sounds like something straight out of a Douglas Adams novel.

    Posted by knayte on 2006 05 17 at 03:02 PM • permalink

  24. From Paragraph 10 of the application:

    The answer comes from experiments done using the ancient Chinese form of breathing known as Chi Kung. Using this breathing technique, we have been able to levitate the human body over six feet in the air. The internal temperature of the stomach is around 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

    200 degrees? Really, Mr. St. Clair, you need to cut down on the habaneros.

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 05 17 at 03:06 PM • permalink

  25. Actually I would prefer a full-body teleportation system to a Transporter that disassembles and reassembles one’s atoms often with dire results.

    As Bones once said: I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered across space by this gadget.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 17 at 03:47 PM • permalink

  26. I actually filed this patent years before Mr. St. Clair but evidently, my version of the damn machine works backwards.

    Posted by Hoodlumman on 2006 05 17 at 04:40 PM • permalink

  27. 4 Gary

    # Everyone who believes wronwright raise their hands.

    5 Geoff

    This man is a complete lunatic. Entirely beyond help.

    Yeah, that inventor’s kind of coocoo too.

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 17 at 05:55 PM • permalink

  28. It will never see the light of day. The motor vehicle and airline conglomerates have conspired to buy out the patent so that it will never be able to compete. Happens all the time.

    Posted by amortiser on 2006 05 17 at 06:46 PM • permalink

  29. Damn! This completely destroys my plans for getting stinking rich off my patent for partial-body teleportation.

    shakes fist in anger

    Posted by Crispytoast on 2006 05 17 at 07:31 PM • permalink

  30. Well heck. I guess all my effort and expense at developing this nifty anti-gravity gizmo is all for naught.

    I mean, wow, who could compete with a device that can get a body where ever it wants to go just by breathing…or something?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 05 17 at 07:44 PM • permalink

  31. Step into my transporter and experience the trip of a lifetime. One thing though…your dick will be left behind. I haven’t yet pefected the vortex generator parameters for male genitalia but you won’t need it where your going.

    Posted by Spag_oz on 2006 05 17 at 08:09 PM • permalink

  32. San Juan airport teleportation, Cool that explains it!

    Back in the early 90’s while surfing a break off the end of the same runway (Aviones - pretty close to where baseball hero Roberto Clemente’s plane hit the drink), I did a 360 at the exact same moment a Puerto Rican on a converging peak did…Next thing I know I’m wearing a coconut on the beach and drinking a lukewarm Medalla beer.

    Anyway Wronwright, does this mean I only need to buy a one-way ticket on my next beer run mission to PR?

    Posted by monkeyfan on 2006 05 17 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  33. we have been able to levitate the human body over six feet in the air. The internal temperature of the stomach is around 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

    In other words, “We have ignition!  Liftoff!”

    Is this guy sure he teleported?  He could just be experiencing “lost time” syndrome from a UFO abduction.  Somebody should suggest he bend over and check his asshole for any strange flashing lights and beeping sounds…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 17 at 08:28 PM • permalink

  34. It will never be able to compete with my Wayback machine (which I’ve kept hidden in a secret garage in Enid, Oklahoma, away from certain people who think their reTARDed version is somehow better).  So far, I’ve been able to transport a talking dog and a little boy back to the days of Aesop.  Unfortunately, there were some problems with fracturing some of the fairy tales from that time.  We’re still working out the bugs.  And Moose and Squirrel.

    WE try to stay away from the booze, by the way.  I’ve noticed that with other transport systems it causes no end of problems.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 05 17 at 08:57 PM • permalink

  35. String theory is really interesting, recently they simulated the big bang theory.

    So you believe there is 11 dimensions?

    What about the holographic theory and gravity does not exist?

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 05 17 at 09:23 PM • permalink

  36. It’s the anti-matter in space they should look at>

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 05 17 at 09:25 PM • permalink

  37. anti-matter in space….is that where the lefty mindset originates?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 05 17 at 09:31 PM • permalink

  38. Uh, yeah.  Allow me to finish that fractured tale for you saltydog old boy.  Yes indeed, the boy and the dog did go back in that infernal Wayback Machine of yours.  That is, they landed on a battlefield just minutes before the onset of an epic bloody battle between the Spartans and the Athenians. 

    Imagine if you will myself, lounging on a nearby hill, dressed in a Greek toga, wearing olive leaves in my hair, sipping some quite nice Thracian wine.  It’s not Sumerian mead, mind you, but it’ll do.  And oh yes, enjoying the company of three—allow me to repeat that—

    THREE

    lucious ladies who hail no way near the island of Lesbos, let me tell you.  THREE—I mean, how many times have I ever enjoyed, will I ever enjoy the company of THREE beautiful ladies?  Certainly no chance in this or the last millenium I can assure you.

    Well anyway, the ladies were frightened from the emerging sounds of hoplites and chariots shouting and exhorting their comrades to an impending collision of rushing forces.  Yet the bloodlust excited them also, just what I wanted from these three—THREE!—gorgeous Greek darlings.

    When who should pop—yes, pop!—onto the battlefield but your pliant pigs from the island of Guinea.  Suddenly silence descended onto the battlefield.  Shock.  Confusion.  Then anger.  How dare two unworthy pip squeaks, one obviously young and puny, the other a mere canine, bring an interruption to two brave and fierce forces desiring to do battle!  A claim for avenging the warrriors’ honor was heard shouted by Spartans and Athenians alike.

    What was I to do?  Well, ordinarily I’d lay back and enjoy the spectacle.  I wasn’t going to interrupt my very much needed rest and escape from the pressures of my important yet somewhat unappreciated position in the RWDC.  Yet there was one teensy little wrinkle with that plan.  The dog was Karl’s favorite beagle, Peabody!

    Soooooo .... guess who had to blow kisses good bye to his companions—-

    (stop to consider my once in a lifetime chance to enjoy the company of three ladies ~ sigh ~ )

    —and zipped the old Tardis onto the battlefield, grabbed the dog and punk kid, and high tailed it back to 2006 Washington DC?  Give you one guess who it wasn’t:  saltydog!

    And did Karl so much as thanked for this unparalleled piece of heroism?  Hah!  He ordered me to take Peabody for a walk around the White House.  Ingrate.

    (note:  I’m referring to Peabody, not Karl of course)

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 17 at 09:35 PM • permalink

  39. There must be a wormhole generator between my wife’s mouth and my ears.  It’s the only explanation for all the stuff she has supposedly told me and I have no recollection of.

    Posted by Razor on 2006 05 17 at 09:58 PM • permalink

  40. Actually, I believe the Mexican government has been working on such a device for some time now.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 05 17 at 10:12 PM • permalink

  41. #39, thanks for that, Razor.  That explains a heckuva lot in my own house.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 05 17 at 10:24 PM • permalink

  42. OK, we have a problem here.

    From what I overheard wronwright told wronwright, apparently wronwright (that’s wronright-1 for clarity) tried to tell wronwright (wronwright-2) he attempted to go back to the same point in time and look up his three hotties.  Unfortunately, as near as wronwright-5 theorizes, he didn’t quite wait for himself to leave, and this set up a sort of temporal polycontinuity, and, as far as wronwright-17 can tell, all attempts to go back and correct this so far have been unsuccessful.

    Frankly, the cellar is getting crowded…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 17 at 10:51 PM • permalink

  43. I once had an extended out-of-stomach experience after some bad fish.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2006 05 17 at 11:11 PM • permalink

  44. Do all the Wronwright’s have belly buttons? It’s an important question.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 05 17 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  45. Was Rocky the dopey moose? And Bullwinkle the flying rat with the squeaky voice and the brains of the outfit? Or was it the other way round?

    And did Darlink, Boris the Russian’s spy’s girlfriend have a real name? And how come they were the only heterosexuals in the whole show or not in an unusual relationship with another species?

    Posted by geoff on 2006 05 17 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  46. Infidel Tiger — Damned if I’ll look. The fishnet vests are alarming enough.  Besides, with all the belly hair…

    geoff — Rocky, flying rat.  “Darlink” — Natasha Fatale.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 17 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  47. Further — wronwright-136a reports an encounter with a stocky brunette chick with a weird metal frisbee who complained wronwright-? was hitting on her girlfriend…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 17 at 11:43 PM • permalink

  48. ...does Stargate Command know about this?

    I swear I’m not getting my memos.

    — Jack O’Neal

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 17 at 11:49 PM • permalink

  49. I once woke up in a relationship I hadn’t been in the night before.  Anything quantum about that?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 17 at 11:52 PM • permalink

  50. #16

    If you have a time-division multiplexer in your office and have a power failure at just the wrong time, you can rip a hole in the fabric of space in your office and suck nearby office supplies into the white hole.

    This happens, extraordinarily enough, within about a week or two of the due date of children’s return to school.

    Posted by kae on 2006 05 18 at 12:26 AM • permalink

  51. #34 Saltydog, I loved fractured fairy tales!

    Peabody and Sherman were OK.

    Posted by kae on 2006 05 18 at 12:31 AM • permalink

  52. #44

    Yeah, they all have bellybuttons, they were all born…

    but I have warned you all on many occasions not to muck around with the time/space continuum - you can just mess around with time and, you know, things can happen. Bad things.

    Posted by kae on 2006 05 18 at 12:37 AM • permalink

  53. kae — Which of me did you warn?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 18 at 12:42 AM • permalink

  54. #53

    Oh Richard - I warned you all in other threads how dangerous it was. Perhaps it was something like Razor’s (#39) wormhole generator interfering with you all getting the message?

    So, what are we going to do with over 200 wronwrights?

    Posted by kae on 2006 05 18 at 12:59 AM • permalink

  55. There must be a wormhole generator between my wife’s mouth and my ears.  It’s the only explanation for all the stuff she has supposedly told me and I have no recollection of.

    You don’t speak Wife. For instance, when your furnace breaks down and your wife says, “I asked you three weeks ago to call for an appointment to have someone come out and look at that” means that three weeks ago she told you, “The radiator made a funny noise.”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 05 18 at 01:07 AM • permalink

  56. #53 #54 - The cloak room situation at the Neo-Con Club must be very frustrating.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 05 18 at 01:08 AM • permalink

  57. Here’s another couple examples of Wifespeak, Razor:

    The phrase “Maybe we should…” translates as “You had better…”

    And when you ask her what she wants for dinner out, and she says, “Oh, whatever. Anything’s fine”, it means, “Keep making suggestions for me to shoot down until you hit one that appeals to me. Minimum six.”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 05 18 at 01:16 AM • permalink

  58. kae — 200 and counting…

    The next time the TARDIS cycles through, we tackle it and pull the plug.

    Of course Richards-3 thru 17 thought that was a good idea too.  Richard-2 was smarter than that; as far as I know he’s still down at the cybercafe ordering Japanese subway porn.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 18 at 01:17 AM • permalink

  59. Oh, great.

    Wronwright-69 has been selling Gay Thursday Magic Kingdom package tours to King Epicenus of Thebes and Queen Degeneres of Lesbos.

    Would someone please tell him the Borgia Vatican is NOT the Magic Kingdom…?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 18 at 01:22 AM • permalink

  60. #10- What you have encountered in this case is another device, the ubiquitous beer scooter.

    Use the buggers regularly myself, but they can’t be very stable going by the contusions and abrasions that usually cover me when I awake.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 05 18 at 01:42 AM • permalink

  61. #38 wronwright I, (the post #38, not wronwright #38)

    Man, I hate to tell you, but that is just a little scam ol’ Peabody worked up.  He’s a comic as well as a pedant.  (And he makes the worst puns in the universe.)  The “take Peabody for a walk” is one of their favorites, just to see if they can get someone to take a anthropomorphized cartoon dog for a walk.  I mean, Peabody doesn’t even like to walk! 

    Sorry, though, I didn’t mean to set you up.  If it helps, I bet he’s sniggering behind my back as well.  I know that won’t make up for the THREE hot babes.  Nothing could make up for that.

    You might ask why you know who is showing interest in a second time-machine program.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 05 18 at 02:53 AM • permalink

  62. Dave S’s Paradox:

    If a husband speaks in the forest and no wife is there to hear, is he still wrong?

    Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 18 at 03:57 AM • permalink

  63. This guy is either completely insane or this has been random generated by a computer program.

    My personal favourite part:
    It was this experiment that resulted in making first contact with the androids of the Grey aliens who told me, in a remote viewing session, that “We saw you blowing smoke into hyperspace.”

    He’s certainly blowing smoke somewhere…

    Posted by Dale on 2006 05 18 at 04:45 AM • permalink

  64. Sounds even more bizarre!

    http://www.physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/5/9/1

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 05 18 at 08:27 AM • permalink

  65. Well, I don’t know how it happened, but we have 200 wronwrights assembled in the black op helicopter base.  What a mess.  They’re all bitching and whinging about not being appreciated, not having been promoted to full member status, and yes, about having a goat as a minion assistant.  I’m beginning to understand what Richard has been saying.

    But it’s a lemons to lemonade day.  I’ve got them waxing the helicopters and humvees .  But to be honest they’re doing a simply terrible job of it. 

    I’m working with the Time Lords to send the other wronwrights (all inferior it should be mentioned) back.  But they’re sort of puzzled with the back part—as in back to where?

    Chances are we’ll send them all back to 2,200 BC Sumeria and let them raid Sargon’s mead room.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 05 18 at 09:13 AM • permalink

  66. Not back, not forward — sideways. Give a bit of a rightwise tilt to all them supposedly ‘parallel’ universes.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 18 at 09:44 AM • permalink

  67. not so fast, comrades.  some aussies are onto it

    and there’s more

    Posted by KK on 2006 05 18 at 10:24 AM • permalink

  68. ...so, dump the problem on other universes?

    Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 05 18 at 10:28 AM • permalink

  69. Ya’ll owe me a new monitor.  And Dr Pepper hurts when it comes out your nose. 

    On another note, can you send one of the “inferior” wronwrights over to my house?  I need a handyman who works for sumerian mead.  I wormholed one of the brewery set-ups to the shed. 

    Elizabeth
    Imperial Keeper

    Posted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2006 05 18 at 10:58 AM • permalink

  70. If a husband speaks in the forest and no wife is there to hear, is he still wrong?

    Mrs. S says, “Absolutely.”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 05 18 at 01:31 PM • permalink

  71. #69: On another note, can you send one of the “inferior” wronwrights over to my house?

    Er, how can one tell . . . never mind, never mind.

    Posted by paco on 2006 05 18 at 04:45 PM • permalink

  72. #69

    On another note, can you send one of the “inferior” wronwrights over to my house?  I need a handyman who works for sumerian mead.  I wormholed one of the brewery set-ups to the shed.

    I think Elizabeth Imperial Keeper just solved the problem of what to do with all the excess wronwrights.

    May I have one, too? Will he do handyman-stuff for home brew?

    Posted by kae on 2006 05 18 at 05:53 PM • permalink

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