Sunday, October 29, 2006

*sound of brain shutting down*

I think this is the most mind-boggling sentence I've ever read in a technical paper:

One technology that is emerging from the military world is meteor burst communication, which uses the transient radio paths provided by ionised trails of meteors entering the atmosphere to send data packets between a mobile station and a base [83].

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. How...? What? How the _fuck_ did someone come up with that?

"Hey...how can we send a radio signal to someone without anyone being able to track where it came from?"

"We could...umm...well, we could bounce the signal off of ionized particles created when balls of space rocks obliterate themselves in our atmosphere in a blaze of lethal glory?"

".......uh, Jones? Have you been smoking, injecting, or otherwise absorbing some kind of substance I should know about? I've been going to Starbucks a lot of years now, and I'm here to tell you that people don't come up with that shit off a cup of coffee..."

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