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The Government's Secret UFO Program Funded Research on Wormholes and Extra Dimensions (vice.com)
Documents released by the Department of Defense reveal some of what its infamous Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was working on. From a report: The Department of Defense funded research on wormholes, invisibility cloaking, and "the manipulation of extra dimensions" under its shadowy Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, first described in 2017 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. On Wednesday, the Defense Intelligence Agency released a list of 38 research titles pursued by the program in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
The list provides one of the best looks at the Pentagon's covert UFO operation or study of "anomalous aerospace threats." According to Aftergood's FOIA request, the document marked "For Official Use Only" was sent to Congress on January 2018. One such research topic, "Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy," was led by Eric W. Davis of EarthTech International Inc, which describes itself as a facility "exploring the forefront reaches of science and engineering," with an interest in theories of spacetime, studies of the quantum vacuum, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
The list provides one of the best looks at the Pentagon's covert UFO operation or study of "anomalous aerospace threats." According to Aftergood's FOIA request, the document marked "For Official Use Only" was sent to Congress on January 2018. One such research topic, "Traversable Wormholes, Stargates, and Negative Energy," was led by Eric W. Davis of EarthTech International Inc, which describes itself as a facility "exploring the forefront reaches of science and engineering," with an interest in theories of spacetime, studies of the quantum vacuum, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Swamp gas or weather balloon? You decide.
Col. Jack O'Neill denied any knowledge of the Stargate program or the existence of the SGC, stating "I think you watch too much television."
RIP Don Davis
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
And covering g up Donald Trump's crimes.
I thought the extra dimensions were added by physicists when confronted with the fact that their formula/theory didn't work with reality...
Lots of research is funded with titles that relate the work to military needs but which are vastly implausible. The research is good and necessary to understanding scientific issues, and everybody knows the military applications are nonsense.
I am reminded of a general relativity study of inertial frames of reference near a rotating massive heavy object. Needed some expensive computer time. Justified it by saying you might trick an enemy into swinging a heavy weight on a spring, then sneak up on him with a rotating massive shell.
Of course the mass needed would be a good fraction of the mass of the universe, but maybe ways to reduce it could be found.
The proposal was accepted and funded. Incidentally, it proved that inertial frames do get rotated, a conclusion that helped understand details about black hole formation.
When you are working on the cutting-edge of scientific theory, it's all crazy stuff. This was merely research into the topics in hope of gaining some insight in the possibility. Communication without wires or sound used to be a fantasy but today most carry devices that utilize it constantly.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Think about that when you're trying to get to sleep tonight.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Seriously.
Now China will realize why we're not worried about their Moon Base.
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You know someone at the Pentagon wrote a paper about the potential of an "interdimensional 9/11" to get funding for this.
Those are just ridiculous titles for money that went towards more practical things, like moving heroine for the CIA.
"Heroine" means a woman admired or idealized for her courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.
"Heroin" is diacetylmorphine, a powerful opioid drug.
I've been in the military industrial complex my whole adult life. I've wasted money. I've bought gizmos it turned out that I didn't really need, done things the expensive way because it was the fastest way, or because I just didn't know any better. I've charged my time for my work on X while skimming a couple of hours here and there for pet project Y, or just screwing around reading the internet when I had a mental block. A few thousand a year here and there, maybe peaking around 10k for the worst of it.
I wasn't terribly proud of doing that. Still am not. But at least I didn't sell some schmuck who didn't know any better a promise to break the laws of physics with nothing but a pencil and paper (no wastebasket required). Whew. I can sleep soundly again.
To anyone who wonders how I can have the job I claim to have and be a small-government RightwingNutjob instead of a big-government LeftwingNutjob...stargates and UFOs and EmDrives is your answer.
The question is:
Wait --- Wut? Why?
Well, not me. I can just see the military's response now: "Yuck! Girls!"
Have gnu, will travel.
The USA will be happy to fully support any nation with food, education, safety, and infrastructure when asked.
Ask for a US base and open the nation to US investment.
US food will be given for free.
US NGO will do the free pro democracy education.
The CIA will keep any nation safe from all other nations attempts at trade and investment.
The new US base will need better infrastructure so expect some port, roads, rail, power and airport upgrades.
The deal will then be to support all US politics globally and to buy from US brands. Buy into US mil systems.
Take out some big new US loans to fully upgrade to US mil standards.
No wormhole research will be needed. Ask for a US base to support local troops and support democracy.
The US embassy will get everything started after that request for support.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
So US spies could "look" deep into any Soviet bunker/port from the comfort of a mil base in the USA?
Draw a sketch and have the CIA experts gather around looking at the best Soviet intelligence they had seen for decades.
The sketch of the long object in a port was a new submarine.
The sketch of a box was a hidden Soviet lab. Deep underground in a hidden Soviet science city.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
On the one hand: somewhat happy to hear that somebody is thinking far enough ahead to wonder if some of these far-fetched ideas could possibly be real.
On the other hand: regretting once again that I have this totally inconvenient thing called a 'conscience' and can't just swindle the government out of millions of dollars on what amounts to TV science fantasy writing. Just one multi-million dollar contract and I wouldn't have to work again a day in my life.
vs going full wormholes and extra dimensions AC?
Would you rather see the US fund wormholes and extra dimensions AC?
Give the same money to the CIA, US embassy workers, US NGO workers and convert a nation to full democracy?
Want some long term lab coat wormhole science in CA AC? Fund some real hearts and minds democracy in another nation?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
With a little more work and a few references to the BDS movement, you could probably whip that into shape as a Slate article.
Pretty sure you're responding to a joke.
Will someone get this walking carpet out of my way?
So you're saying that you could have fed your population 75 years ago, if you hadn't split the atom? Maybe that would have been a good idea.
The DoD is just being systematic. Science cannot prove a negative. You cannot prove that wormholes, or invisibility cloaks, or extra dimensions do not exist. So instead what you have to do is make an honest effort into researching each one. And when that research uncovers nothing plausible, you say that these things probably do not exist, and our research dollars are better spent on other things that we either don't know if they exist, or we know exist and need to study more to refine our understanding.
But until you make this honest effort, you cannot authoritatively say that these things are not worth investigating. Anyone dismissing these ideas out of hand is jumping to a conclusion based not on evidence, but on their preconceived notions.
Unfortunately, history courses and especially TV/movies do not teach people the value of failure, and quite often ridicule it. Failures are just as important as successes. Every success does not stand by itself. The success was made possible only because countless failures that came before told the successful people what not to do. When a reporter questioned Edison about the amount of effort wasted on failures finding a material which would work as a filament for a light bulb, Edison replied "I have not failed 700 times. I've succeeded in proving 700 ways how not to build a lightbulb."
I don't understand why people are thinking that this is the government looking for vehicles from other planets.
Yes, they have these programs. Why? Because the USA has black projects on airplanes. The SR-71 used to be a big secret. So the government to some extent probably wanted to know what civivlias from teh ground were seeing. Remember those "triangular shaped UFOs" that were so popular in the 90s? Then remember the USA admitting that this thing called the F-117.
listen, these programs exist because other countries HAVE THE SAME PROGRAMS. So the USA "intelligence" programs have these "UFO research" programs to gather intelligence on aircraft that are not identified because they are spy planes from other countries.