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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.
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.
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.
Seriously.
Now China will realize why we're not worried about their Moon Base.
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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.
Well, not me. I can just see the military's response now: "Yuck! Girls!"
Have gnu, will travel.
It is an intuitive answer to a difficult problem. Namely, within a 3 dimension coordinate system, there are an infinite number of 2d coordinates. Therefore if there is a 4th dimension, itâ(TM)s coordinates encompass an infinite number of 3 dimensional coordinates. And so on, turtles all the way down. What is contained by those coordinates is in dispute, and where science fiction writers have taken some flights of fancy.
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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.
I don't know what that noise was I heard in my house last night. Since it was unidentified it means it could have been an extraterrestrial drinking out of my milk carton without even using a glass. I just don't have enough information to eliminate or even reduce the possibility of such a potentiality.
The 5th Dimension is responsible for the Age of Aquarius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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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.
No. If he doesn't know what made the sound, then he should just act like he didn't hear it. If any one else heard it and asked what it was, he should mock them and call them crazy.