Gravity Control by Laser

[mansouryar]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Not if Homeland Security has a say in it.

If there is a wormhole technology at work, what does the "Homeland" mean? How would the DHS guys want to stop that?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by mansouryar

If there is a wormhole technology at work, what does the "Homeland" mean? How would the DHS guys want to stop that?

Whoa, just because we can get from here to Mars in a jiffy, doesn't mean we can all start singing Kumbaya and buying each other Cokes. I know damn well if this technology were to become a reality, nation states would closely control it's use for their own benefit. Running down to Home Depot for a wormhole is not in the cards.

You're totally right. It can solve the energy crisis. Imagine anchoring one end of a wormhole in a deep point of the earth, so you can extract the internal heat of the earth and use it in a geothermal power plant. To make it more economical, you can avoid installing new complexes. Just take out the facilities of a fossil/nuclear plant from the building, then install the new facilities in the same building and start having green geothermal energy!

That sounds lovely, but just taking carbon out of the earth has caused a world of hurt, that wasn't predicted for a very long time. How do we know what the consequences of moving the heat from the earth's core to the atmosphere are going to be? Will it cause excess cooling of the core, and shrinkage causing massive earthquakes, tsunamis, super volcanoes and prairie dog suicides?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

shrinkage

[glatt]

Mass access to teleportation would be cool, but at the same time it would suck. Those remote exotic locations would lose their charm if they were easy to get to and millions of people around the world decided they wanted to go there. I can picture the peak of Mount Everest having a Planet Hollywood on it with an oxygen bar.

The only way you would be able to find a place where you could get away from it all would be if you chose a barren inhospitable location, like the middle of a flat desert in Nevada.

Things like the "suburbs" and "country" would cease to have meaning if you can instantaneously commute from anywhere. Population density would become evenly distributed instead of being centered around cities. Put another way, there would no longer be rural areas, it would all be one big suburb.