[sudo-discuss] Flux capacitor

[Eddan Katz]

Relatedly, it may be worth our while to try and integrate a teleportation scenario strategy into our look at Oakland real estate. Distance from BART would become a less prominent criterion, for sure - but cost would probably still somehow get tethered to whether you had to travel by private or public transportation beams.


http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/05/star-trek/
> Finally, although it cannot take the credit for teleport, and the relevant sense of transporter has not (yet) entered the OED, it seems that Star Trek did give us this sense of beam v.:
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>  To transport (someone or something) through space as if along a beam of light or energy (esp. up to a spacecraft)
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>  … as well as the corresponding intransitive sense (‘to travel through space in this way’). The phrase ‘beam me up, Scotty’, expressing one’s wish for a quick and painless escape from an undesirable situation, was inspired by, but not quoted directly from, the dialogue of the original TV series.
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> On Oct 3, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20462/is-back-to-the-future-flux-capacitor-a-capacitor-in-the-first-place#20474
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>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net> wrote:
>> I was wondering if any Sudo-imagineers knew anything about Flux Capacitors (http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor).
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>> I want to see if I can go back in time and change the wording of a recent email I wrote and have been told that a flux capacitor would be necessary to accomplish this.
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