Tachyon Movies

Via a back channel, the Gardner Project of EniTech Research. They have an argon laser, so you know it's science!

(This is way too slick to be the work of real crazy people, and, of course, there's this ad... This is almost certainly either performance art or viral marketing for an upcoming tv show, but it's pretty amusing. Make sure to at least skim through the comments.)

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