Ask HN: Is telekinesis inside the international space station feasible? [idea]

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The idea is to implement telekinesis inside the international space station by adding vents on the walls to push objects around based on directions from mind readers worn by the astronauts. Is this feasible?

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Both current stage of development and accuracy of "mind reading" technology and the price of equipment used on ISS would prevent this from happening. That, combined with high cost of failure (possible damage to life-supporting systems), make me believe that such a system would be infeasible.

On the other hand, NASA experimented with volleyball-sized self-propelled semi-autonomous robots, called Personal Satellite Assistants. More on the program here, but no info about what happened to the prototypes: http://psa.arc.nasa.gov/

As far as cost factor, I imagine James Randi's circle might be of assistance:

http://web.randi.org/the-million-dollar-challenge.html

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