Paging Mr. Rogers... Mr. Buck Rogers!

Could we be satisfied without the microwave, jet flight, the space station, or the internet?

But for the imagination, from Jules Verne to Gene Roddenberry, where would we be?
And what would our lives be like?

Teleportation breakthrough made

By Paul Rincon
BBC News Online science staff

In the past, teleportation has only been possible with particles of light. Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports.

The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem
in the US and Austria. The ability to transfer key properties of one particle to another without using any physical link has until now only been achieved with laser light.

Experts say the capability to do the same with massive particles like atoms could lead
to new superfast computers.

This development is a long way from the transporters used by Jean-Luc Picard and Captain Kirk in the famous Star Trek TV series.

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I hope they get this to work in my lifetime.
I can think of a few people I'd like to beam up... or wish into the cornfield.