<![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> So, the camera has a tachyon driven telescope of great power attached, and it looks at where the earth will be in that time frame, but really already is there, and everywhere, because time is mathematically symmetrical.

Must work that way, right? Cool. BS, but cool. ;) LOL. Hate it when they forget the 'science' part of 'science fiction', don't you? :)

pax, smn

stephen_newberg

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> @Seraphade: That reminds me of the Episode of Southpark with Cartman where he travels into the future for the Wii and sees a commercial about Phoning into the Past.

Klappstuhl

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> I'VE GOT AN IMPORTANT QUESTION!!!

Will the LHC open up a blackhole? Or will we discover the Graviton?

Klappstuhl

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> We've established it's a viral but the question still remains.
What could the camera take a picture of that would prove it can see in the Future. Barring Photoshop of course.
1. The position of the sky through a telescope.

BobLiesmith

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> the first image they post up is right around the corner from my girlfriend's house. check out the streetview on google maps for 16th street at albion facing SSW. see the burger? that burger is the odd shape just behind the no-parking sign that the female character mentions. they must have taken that picture a little after the google cars were mapping the city, as the restaurant in googles pictures is not in theirs (it's empty in enitech's video). unfortunately for them, there is a very busy restaurant there now, and enitech's "present day" video claims to be from 1/3/08. i ate there on the third... it's mediocre thai food... "the monk's pot," if memory serves.

still, good effort.

arjuna

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Dumb. Please quit with the viral marketing posing as reality. Ever hear of the boy who cried wolf? This is where this is leading.

Kenan

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> What about it being a new ARG (Alternate Reality Game)? id appreciate that coming out of a sci-fi blog more than a Ron Paul viral advertisement.

Seraphade

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> heres the casting call post for this hoax
[exploretalent.com]

Seraphade

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> sonofabitch. Stupid viral marketing for Ron Paul. *sheesh Found the wiki: [en.wikipedia.org]

Cenobite

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Its a terrible fake. No 'college research project' would have titles nearly that appealing.

kosure

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> People always forget that the EARTH, Sun, Galaxy... the ENTIRE UNIVERSE is moving. 'Pointing' this camera would only reveal empty space, because in 3 years the earth will be in an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT POSITION THAN IT IS NOW.

Cenobite

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Two words: "Bad Acting". A sure sign something like this is fake? Notice how the "spontaneous" comments are so staged. Nobody, as in real life, steps on each other's lines or seems to wait for their turn to speak.

Plus "faster than light" particles? "Tachyons?" More like MORONS.

But it's still a fun video.

jimfields

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Arthur C Clarke and Stephen Baxter wrote a novel with a similar theme, only it was using a camera to look *back* in time.

Novel was called the Light Of Other Days.

da5id_nz

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> good fake.

looks like someones research project for college.

they were definately acting.

xrikazen

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> i would like to see a clock with a little callender on it =P
The type of clock that you could just assume wouldnt be removed in 3 years.
If infact the callender showed it as 3 years later then there couldnt really be any doubt that it was infact showing the future.

Well obviously unless they were faked =P

possumboy

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> It's a viral for Terminator. In the site's blog there is a link to a facebook group for "Former Cyberdyne Systems Employees" where it makes reference to a "tragic attack."

mumblingmynah

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Interesting, however even if the 'camera' functioned as stated, there is no way that it would be taking photos of the exact same 'location' 1,191 days in the future. Disregarding that fact of Earth's rotation, we are also traveling through space @ 66,580 MPH, so in 1,191 days we would be 1,903,122,720 miles from where we are now. Statistically speaking, the camera would only show empty space, or perhaps a close-up of Elvis.

ijsaul

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> This is so obviously a viral and we don't need a magic camera to see that.

Watch the video again through your headphones and listen for the dastardly subtle ominous music that creates a moody sense of atmosphere as they begin to look at photos.

You're all right on the money; if this were real, every government on the planet would be killing eachother for it.

Anyway, we'll all just have to wait and see exactly what this is all about.

Ken

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> I submit the definitive proof that this is faked - well, but faked: a Wikipedia search for any derivation of Enitech Research results in precisely nothing. They should have at least generated a stub on Wikipedia, to cover all their bases.

papercup mixmaster

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> If I can't have a real, jump in and go to the past/future time machine, then I just want a device where I can choose key moments in the past and give myself a dope slap and shout in my own ear. WHACK, "Buy Apple, sell Home Depot!" WHACK, "You've had enough to drink!" WHACK, "Dump her NOW!"

Whyaduck

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Ahh...Star Trek physics. Tachyons can do anything!

comp_wiz101

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Would work the same way as an infra-red cam, but I'm pretty sure that tachyons emissions would be AT LEAST gamma radiation and not safe to project anywhere.

Still cool tho. I'd go to Wall Street!

sci-fi_jones

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Turn that FTL cam on that team of "researchers". If these were real they'd be be missing from the image. NSA on the way!

Number 6

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Cute, downright funny, "...faster than light" Okaaayyy. The Homeland Security implications of something like that would be shattering. Let's see the next scene where big guys with black uniforms and MP5s arrest everyone... might make a nice miniseries for the sci-fi network.

deckard97

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Definitely feels like a viral marketing site to me.

Their IP translates to millionsofus.com, a site which claims to be:

"An Agency Specializing in Virtual Worlds
We design, activate and measure marketing programs for our clients across a wide spectrum of platforms."

I like it anyway... it got my attention.

LadyMin

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> How about pointing it at the desk in the white house. I'd love to see who is the president in the future.

MonkeyLeader

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Feels viral to me too. Gotta be some promotional thing.

radink360

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Completely fake. Tachyons are theoretical particles. As far as we know they dont even exist.

msachs

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Some days i would be happy to know there are 1,191 days in my future.

wishnevsky

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Hmm, sounds like the movie Deja Vu with Denzel Washington.

Kel_Varnsen

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> @SKIPRAT: I think it's referring to "Initech," which is the company in Office Space (hence they don't want their office to be like that).

crwills

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> They won't tell us where their 'most important piece' that makes this thing work is from. C'mon guys, we all know who's behind this. Doc Brown, if you're reading this, we're on to you...

livinglogic

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Yeah, seems to be a hoax or ARG. Here's a key link:
[exploretalent.com]

Seems that an agency was looking to hire Dr. Frank Bentley and Mike Alton. At the EniTech site "Mike" is now Mike Shelton, but close enough, neh?

Laffinboy

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Good catch, Thieu!

meanbeard

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> This viral marketing stuff is annoying especially when done in such a clearly fake way...

'Oh we think we are seeing the future, so we will take pictures of random locations and show them.'
Are there no major buildings in the area to take pictures of? Hell, even a group of newly planted trees would work.

Sorry I heart Bees and Year Zero were more entertaining..

DocGratis

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> [www.mediatemple.net]
that seems to be the client list of the domain servers this website (www.enitechlabs.com) is registered to. The name servers are Enom.com, I believe. Note the crazy number of entertainment companies on this list - ABC, NBC, Miramax, Sony....
It's crazy fake - but well done. had me going for about .002 of a second.

HowardDay

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> This from their website blog.... any ideas what they're talking about? Too early in the morning for me to think.

Q: Hey, does your company name sound a bit familiar?
A: Let's just say it's our homage. And it's a helpful reminder of what we want to avoid in our work environment.

skiprat

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> @Bob Bruhin: Seeing as the lead researcher's prior employment was at Cyberdyne you are probably correct.

Thieu

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> I prefer that time travel machine in "The Science of Sleep" that could go one minute into the future.

the memorexe

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> @MR. BLACK: I think we're talking, "Sarah Connor Chronicles," here.

Bob Bruhin

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> If this is for a movie that comes out in 1,191 days then I am WAY too scattered for modern marketing.

Princess Stacey

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> I think the subtle giveaway is on their FAQ page:

"Q: So did your team really completely invent the technology for the Gardner Project device?

"A: No. To be perfectly clear: this technology is largely based on another device that we did not originally build or create, but is currently on loan to us. For legal reasons we cannot show the original object, but we can show what we've created and discovered based on our studies of that original device. We hope to hear from others out there about their ideas for taking this innovation to the next steps of gathering empirical data."

Bob Bruhin

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> Not a Hoax? heh ryeah right.
I think it's a TV series viral.

Darkedge

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> "...this technology is largely based on another device that we did not originally build or create, but is currently on loan to us. For legal reasons we cannot show the original object, but we can show what we've created and discovered based on our studies of that original device." -Can't wait to see where this "company" is heading (anyone know movie or TV?)

Mr. Black @ Sanctuary93.com

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> It is probably an ARG.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> I'd like to see if viral marketing schemes are still popular 1,191 days into the future. Unfortunately I predict they probably will be.

frankadelic

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> it's like I can't decide if I want this to be true, or am praying to God that it isn't.

TrevorJ

]]> <![CDATA[Faster-Than-Light Camera Records Your Future]]> It'd be pretty neat to see the future of Times Square. But my head hurts thinking of the possible consequences of this.

Orion_of_Chaos

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