<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Relatedly, it may be worth our while to try and integrate a teleportation scenario strategy into our look at Oakland real estate. Distance from BART would become a less prominent criterion, for sure - but cost would probably still somehow get tethered to whether you had to travel by private or public transportation beams.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/05/star-trek/">http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/05/star-trek/</a></div><div><p></p><blockquote type="cite"><p>Finally, although it cannot take the credit for <a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/teleport?q=teleport" target="_blank"><em>teleport</em></a>, and the relevant sense of <em>transporter</em> has not (yet) entered the <em>OED</em>, it seems that <em>Star Trek</em> did give us this sense of <em><a href="http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/beam#beam__19" target="_blank">beam</a> v.</em>:</p><p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"> To transport (someone or something) through space as if along a beam of light or energy (esp. <em>up</em> to a spacecraft)</p><p> … as well as the corresponding intransitive sense (‘to travel
through space in this way’). The phrase ‘beam me up, Scotty’, expressing
one’s wish for a quick and painless escape from an undesirable
situation, was inspired by, but not quoted directly from, the dialogue
of the original TV series.</p></blockquote></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div>On Oct 3, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Anthony Di Franco <<a href="mailto:di.franco@gmail.com">di.franco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><a href="http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20462/is-back-to-the-future-flux-capacitor-a-capacitor-in-the-first-place#20474">http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/20462/is-back-to-the-future-flux-capacitor-a-capacitor-in-the-first-place#20474</a><br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Eddan Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eddan@clear.net" target="_blank">eddan@clear.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I was wondering if any Sudo-imagineers knew anything about Flux Capacitors (<a href="http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor" target="_blank">http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Flux_capacitor</a>).<br>
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I want to see if I can go back in time and change the wording of a recent email I wrote and have been told that a flux capacitor would be necessary to accomplish this.<br>
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