Space breakthrough: Scientists teleport photon from Earth to orbit

no thanks

Sell your airline stocks!

This is really cool stuff.

Can we frick the aliens though?

And we'd have to locate or quantumly entangled selves to teleport

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Quantum teleportation is seen as the basis for unimaginably high-speed communication and foolproof cryptography.

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Here's the real world application of this technology

Good thing China is leading the world in developing it

Not really. There is a discussion on Reddit about the topic, and some explanations on the subject. I don't understand it enough to repeat, but it is a good read.

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Can we frick the aliens though?

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Yes and there are some amazingly hot alien races since many of them look extremely like us.

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Quantum entanglement has tremendous implications for high speed long distance communication but it is not teleportation, not even close.

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Exactly. One of the reasons Mars Rovers seem to make such little progress is that those driving the rovers are getting footage hours behind what is actually happening. They have to program the rover one night and wait until the next day to see what the rover did. Photon teleportation could eventually result in being able to control those rovers in real time just like a drone here on earth. That would vastly increase our ability to explore other celestial bodies remotely.