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"This invention is a system that teleports a human being through hyperspace…"
This has to be the patent application of the year:
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0001] This invention is a system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another using a pulsed gravitational wave traveling through hyperspace.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The basis for this invention is an event, referring to FIG. 1, occurring on May 2, 2004, in which the inventor (‘he’) personally experienced a full-body teleportation while walking to the bus stop…
I hate it when that happens.
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And yet you never thought to patent the idea. That’s what sets us mundane types apart from…um…geniuses.
That’s hilarious! I wonder if he was just daydreaming and came to at the bus stop… I’ve done that before while driving. I’ll arrive somewhere but have no recollection of the trip. I must have been teleported, too!