Russian spacebot stranded outside the ISS as Soyuz fails to dock

Re: The current situation .... is "difficult, but under control."

I was thinking it's more a TITSUP personally :o)

Re: Transporter

Non-FTL quantum teleportation might be possible. Those are strange sounding words, but could be condensed down to something understandable and non "magic".

You basically make a kind of quantum scanner, that sweeps over an object (think lasters, or camera), and at the atomic scale, atom by atom, you turn the matter into energy/photons and project it (think lasers/radio transmission) to another device.

The second device sprays those atoms back onto a plate to reassemble them (think inkjet printer/3d printer).

If you get the laser/quantum teleportation correct, you get an exact atom by atom copy from one end of the system to the other end. Limited by the scanning time, transportation time and reassembly time. No "calculation" is needed, as the quantum entanglement/teleportation system is rather easy (on a single atom scale, we can already do this)...

... doing it for an entire person has it's problems. As while every atom is an exact copy, and reaches it's destination... you may not be able to glue them back together as easily as teleporting a watch! XD

Re: Transporter

I was watching it again, not bad for it's era, especially in terms of diversity and equality - all crew wear basically the same uniform and there's a mix of gender and skin tone.

Why don't they give Donald J Trump a call, he's the smartest man on the planet, he knows these things, probably better than anybody.

Well he's already on the Russian payroll, so it wouldn't be a problem