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Science & Technology
A fun set of US Navy and US Patent Office back and forth
2019-08-05
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Posted by:3dc

#4  Sounds something like how warp drive is supposed to work. Crate a warp | electromagnetic field around the object to make it mass and inertia almost meaningless...
Or and I wrong?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-08-05 19:52  

#3  I gave that book to Mr. Wife for Christmas — he enjoyed it.

I’ve also posted Mr. Stoll’s Ted Talk here on more than one occasion, but y’all can find that easily enough if you want to see him bounce around the stage again in excitement about the thoughts he is sharing. Ditto if you just decided that now is the time to acquire one of his adorable Klein bottles, available from his on-line website. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-08-05 19:51  

#2  Yup. It reminds me of The Cookoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll. Which is a fairly dramatic story (with a highly unlikely protagonist) of international computer espionage from the early days of the internet.
Posted by: The peanut gallery   2019-08-05 16:30  

#1  ...or a major misdirect for Chinese and Soviet Russian intel gathering. Technological Honey Pot, something they can't resist. Seed it with expensive technological dead ends.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-08-05 07:22  

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