Chris sez: "I subscribe to Steven Aftergood's Federation of American Scientist's Project on Government Secrecy 'Secrecy News' mailing list (that was a mouthful). It's an outstanding (and usually very dry) source of semi-classified material. Steven's been featured on The Daily Show and NPR's On the Media, among a lot of other media outlets. The following was the last entry on today's e-mail, dealing with Air Force research on psychokenisis and recommends further government experimentation to develop the USA's psychokenisis capabilities. It's a true story that I doubt Vonnegut could improve upon…"
The Air Force Research Laboratory has paid for and published a new
study on "teleportation physics," referring to the disembodied
transport of objects across space.The author strives to distinguish his subject from the fictional
Star Trek "transporter" concept, and notes that "we are still very
far away from being able to … teleport human beings (and even
simpler biological entities such as cells, etc.) and bulk
inanimate objects…."But after fifty pages of opaque physics, he concludes with an
endorsement of remote viewing, psychokinesis and spoon bending by
psychic Uri Geller."During a talk that he gave at the U.S. Capitol building, Uri
caused a spoon to curve upward with no force applied, and then the
spoon continued to bend after he put it back down and continued
with his talk," he reports.
