15:09 < mdxi> "The teleporters used in Star Trek are said to have been based on the idea of quantum entanglement..."
15:09 < mdxi> correction: NOTHING in Star Trek is based on ANYTHING
15:09 < mdxi> it ain't hard scifi
15:10 <@bda> :(
15:10 <@rjbs> dude
15:10 < solios> word.
15:11 <@rjbs> and was anyone talking about entanglement in the sixties?
15:11 < mdxi> GENE RODDENBERRY
15:11 < solios> it's a retcon.
15:11 <@rjbs> Einstein famously derided entanglement as "spukhafte Fernwirkung" or "spooky action at a distance."
15:11 <@rjbs> ok, maybe
15:12 < mdxi> he'd be pulling somebody over for speeding in their Dodge Dart and instead of a ticket, he'd give them a 30 minute lecture on quantum entanglement
15:12 <@rjbs> "Just write me the fucking ticket!"
15:12 <@rjbs> "I have already both written and not written the ticket."
15:13 < mdxi> this was before he became a tv exec, obviously
15:13 <@rjbs> Einstein was a TV exec?
15:13 <@rjbs> Awesome.
15:14 < mdxi> after that he just talked about gin, how great majel barrett's tits were, and what an ass harlan ellison was
15:17 < mdxi> the hed should, of course, read "Breakthrough brings 'Ender's Game' ansible a step closer", but only *really* horrible nerds know what Ender's Game was, and once it is mentioned they are bound by code of honor to have 17 hour internet deathmatches about how far into the series one should read and whether Card's open Mormonism negates all his work