Remember when the feminists went after porn because it encouraged rape? Rarely has any hypothesis been so dangerously wrong, and so thoroughly disproved. And lest you think we have learned our lesson, I nervously call your attention to the subject of kiddie porn.

You seem to be saying there is no such thing as interference fringes.

I always ask this, and never get an answer. A quantum wavefunction can interfere with itself (E.g., you get interference fringes if you do the 2-slit experiment with a single photon.) But if the wavefunction is collapsed (E.g., by measuring which slit the photon goes through) then it cannot self-interfere. (The fringes disappear.)

Now the punchline. The whole point of quantum teleportation is that collapsing a particle's wavefunction will also collapse the wavefunction of a remote, entangled particle. Will that destroy the remote particle's self-interference fringes? If so, then we have our ansible.

When I jump off a 10-ft diving board, a lake-sized glob of water smashes me at 20mph. Amazingly, I survive.

Detecting wavefunction collapse is trivial, just look for interference between the possible states, ala the two-slit experiment. HOWEVER, if the collapse of an entangled wavefunction can be detected, than FTL information transmission is possible, because collapsing one half of an entangled pair will instantly collapse the other half, causing the interference pattern (or whatever) to disappear. So what am I missing?

The IRA were, and are, Marxists in all but name. If you doubt, read the Sinn Fein manifesto, available online now. What, you never heard that on the news? How could that be? The rule, "All terrorists are collectivists or Muslims" is only rarely violated.

Ditto. They looked like guns to me, and the soldier's call of an RPG seemed reasonable. Also noteworthy: Watching a wounded guy crawl around, and not firing because he had not picked up a weapon. As for killing the rescuers, I agree that is debatable, but the purpose of war is to kill the enemy. I saw no kids.

A satellite's lifetime collision risk depends on the volume of space it sweeps out before the cumulative drag adds up to a de-orbit. The sail does not reduce that volume, it just sweeps it out in a shorter time. I guess there is some net benefit, since a collision with the sail will create a smaller debris cloud.

"Computer model proved conclusively...." No further reading necessary.

The guys who proposed the wacky theory did in fact suggest a test, and quite an interesting one. The critic who wrote TFA apparently missed it when he "skimmed" the papers he publicly ridiculed.

The idea is to conduct some random event, say 1,000 coin tosses, and pre-commit to cancel the LHC if we observe a ridiculous outcome, like 1,000 heads in a row.

You pay a lot for the first byte. Every subsequent byte is the free commons.

How many times must we repeat this lesson? EVERYTHING that is free gets overused, or pissed on. Even air. EVEN AIR. There are no exceptions. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Don't make me say this again.