This town doesn't even warrant a listing in my guidebook so when I arrived I knew nothing about it and had no idea where to stay. A man at the bus station didn't speak English but seemed to understand my 'hotel?' and pointed me towards a place to stay. I seem to be the only guest in the hotel but at least it's clean, quiet, and reasonably priced. I've booked a seat on a bus to Suwalki, Poland that leaves this afternoon. It takes an hour to get there and there is also an hour time difference, so the result is that I will get on the bus at 5.30pm and get off the bus at 5.30pm and be in a different country! Kind of like traveling in Dr Who's tardis or by Star Trek's teleportation.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Marijampole
This town doesn't even warrant a listing in my guidebook so when I arrived I knew nothing about it and had no idea where to stay. A man at the bus station didn't speak English but seemed to understand my 'hotel?' and pointed me towards a place to stay. I seem to be the only guest in the hotel but at least it's clean, quiet, and reasonably priced. I've booked a seat on a bus to Suwalki, Poland that leaves this afternoon. It takes an hour to get there and there is also an hour time difference, so the result is that I will get on the bus at 5.30pm and get off the bus at 5.30pm and be in a different country! Kind of like traveling in Dr Who's tardis or by Star Trek's teleportation.
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In the grand scheme of things the following is not, I am sure, particularly significant, but is it quite true to say that one "travels" by teleportation? Presumably what happens is a form of instantaneous cloning process?
ReplyDeleteCloning can't recreate memories, so that can't be it. I'm sure the Trekkies out there have an explanation for how teleportation works.
ReplyDeleteI'd hope that teleportation or Tardis travel didn't take an hour to achieve. You're just getting older as time stands still. If you keep up this kind of travel you may be grey by the time you get back!
ReplyDeleteYou travelled very near Beckwith's family homeland in Jonava Lithuania. They left in 1894 for the U.S. You have had a grand adventure.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Stephen
As I said it's a form of cloning, in that a separate but identical person is created somewhere else, by the atoms moving from one place to another via the teleporter. Are they the same atoms? Or a new set of atoms put together identically according to what the machine reads? Trekkies please help.
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