{"id":34140,"date":"2011-04-16T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T16:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/i%e2%80%99m-ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack\/"},"modified":"2011-04-16T16:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T16:59:39","slug":"i%e2%80%99m-ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/i%e2%80%99m-ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack.php","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  SOLVED by Jeff at 12:10
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Is everybody ready for us to run another bonus riddle?  Okay, you talked me into it!  We’ll have the bonus riddle ready for your consideration Monday, May the 2nd.  In a few days I’ll put up the bonus riddle rules and a list of who will be eligible to submit guesses.  That means there are just three more chances to get your name on the list.  If you haven’t solved a regular riddle yet this cycle, you might want to work on that.<\/p>

For today, I think I’ll mess with your minds a little.  I’m taking today’s answer from the SciFi genre, so… GET YOUR GEEK ON!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>

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Atlantic Tall Ships Gallery, this is the \"Amazon\" in 1861 - author unknown<\/p><\/div>

This does not exist in the “real world”.  Yet.  That we know of.<\/p>

Very recent experiments with human DNA by a Nobel Prize winning scientist show indications that we may have this potential encoded naturally.<\/p>

We think of this in relation to modern science fiction, but the idea has actually been kicked around for centuries.<\/p>

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US Gov\/CIA educational documents, reported UFO in New Jersey, July 31, 1952 -- enlarges slightly<\/p><\/div>

Some forms of this would cause immense issues in ethics and law.  Really staggering issues.<\/p>

While other forms of this same thing present no problems whatsoever.<\/p>

Still, its application would solve a whole boatload of serious problems we’re currently facing.<\/p>

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Gotta' love quantum mechanics!<\/p><\/div>

As a plot device, any third-grader with a taste for SciFi can discuss this.<\/p>

Although mostly associated with SciFi, it’s not limited to one genre.  You’ll trip over it in works of fantasy, spiritualism, and philosophy.<\/p>

It’s even shown up in a Disney movie.  Of course, what hasn’t<\/span> shown up in a Disney movie?<\/p>

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William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Star Trek - image owned by Paramount, all rights reserved<\/p><\/div>

This has been offered as a possible explanation for cases involving cryptozoology and spontaneous human combustion.<\/p>

Within the past 10 years there has been application made to the United States Patent Office for a device to accomplish this artificially.<\/p>

If it works, it would be quite the deux ex machina.<\/p>

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Iconic image<\/p><\/div>

Are you intrigued?  Think you already know the answer?  Give it a guess – I’m waiting in the comments!<\/p>

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Reassurance for you from Tom. Don't you all feel better now?<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  SOLVED by Jeff at 12:10Is everybody ready for us to run another bonus riddle?  Okay, you talked me into it!  We’ll have the bonus riddle ready for your consideration Monday, May the 2nd.  In a few days I’ll put … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}