Wow! This is cool! Welcome to the future!

Scientist Teleport Matter More Than Three Feet

Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation.
No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.
This is a significant milestone in a field known as quantum information processing, said Christopher Monroe of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, who led the effort.

Read more about this here.

Imagine being transported.. from my house to yours, from home to work and then back at the end of the day. Do you think it will happen in our lifetime? Will the animal rights people allow us to test it on a monkey like when we used monkeys to test flights into space? I think this is really cool stuff.. what do you think?

Here's another news story that caught my eye:

Tom Hanks Apologizes for Calling Mormon Supporters of Proposition 8 'Un-American'

Read about it here

Even if he has apologized he's lost so much respect in my eyes. I had thought of him as one of the few Hollywood folks that had any sense.. obviously he's just like all the rest and can't help but open his mouth to say or do something stupid without thinking first. One of the things that bugs me about this is that he mad the original comment personally but he was too much of a coward to apologize himself. Instead he used a publicist.

You Decide...

President Obama has signed an executive order to close the U.S. prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Pennsylvania Rep. Jack Murtha (D) has already said he would be willing to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his congressional district if the president closes the prison.

So where is he going to put the prisoners? Do you want them in your backyard?

This Just In...

Beatrice Farve
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) _ Beatrice Farve, considered by Guinness World Records to be the second-oldest person in the world, has died. She was 113.
Farve died Monday in her sleep at the Brunswick home she'd maintained since she was 21, her daughter, Joan Farve, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Farve became the second-oldest person earlier this month with the death of 115-year-old Maria de Jesus of Portugal, said Robert Young, a senior gerontology consultant for Guinness World Records.
Joan Farve described her mother as "a very soft, smiling lady" who always stood her ground. The elder Farve was healthy her whole life, rarely going to the doctor and never taking medicine, her daughter said.
Farve was born Beatrice Scarlett in Camden County, Ga., in 1895. Her family says she sold beauty products until she was 100.
The world's oldest person is 114-year-old Gertrude Baines of Los Angeles, Young said.

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Even as only the second oldest living person.. that means I am half-way through life. Dang! I hope the second half goes better than the first! Here's to another 56 years fo me! Cheers!

I haven't entered any posts for such a long time.. but I'll try to be better at it this year!

So leave me a comment - what are you going to try to do better this year?