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By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY

Star Trek fans may be happy to hear that the Air Force has paid to study psychic teleportation.

But scientists aren't so thrilled.

The Air Force Research Lab's August "Teleportation Physics Report," posted earlier this week on the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Web site, struck a raw nerve with physicists and critics of wasteful military spending.

In the report, author Eric Davis says psychic teleportation, moving yourself from location to location through mind powers, is "quite real and can be controlled." The 88-page report also reviews a range of teleportation concepts and experiments:

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Your tax dollars at work. (well, if you are an American)

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The teleportation report "raises questions of scientific quality control at the Air Force," the FAS' Steven Aftergood says.

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Crazy Rulers of the World

..was on last night:

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With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary - and plain bizarre - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's war on terror.

The three-part series begins with The Men Who Stare at Goats, which charts the history of a secret US Army unit founded in 1979 - the First Earth Battalion.

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I watched it, yeah, don't start with me..

It wasn't very compelling, or rather, the people who claimed 'I've got video evidence of me killing a hamster with my mind' produced completely unconvincing videotapes of a hamster lying down (for a nap?). etc..

Although there was a claim that every member of the 81st Airborne carries a little plastic tool into combat, that's designed to do 'incredible damage to the chakra points'.