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originally posted by: mirageman
The American military do waste money on fantasy. Back in 2002 Las Vegas physicist Eric Davis, current hero of UFO fans everywhere, was paid $25,000 by the U.S. Air Force Research Lab to discuss the scientific possibilities of teleportation in a small 88 page paper. Yep! It's complete utter useless junk and Eric only wrote a few pages anyway. Nice work if you can get it.
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:
█ Quantum teleportation, a technique demonstrated in the last decade that shifts the characteristics, but not the location, of sub-atomic particles at great distances.
█ Wormholes, a highly theoretical possibility whereby the intense gravitational field near black holes could rip open entrances to distant locales.
█ Psychokinesis, or psychic teleportation. In support of the idea, the report cites UFO reports, Soviet and Chinese studies of psychics and U.S. military studies of spoon-bending phenomena.
"It is in large part crackpot physics," says physicist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University, author of The Physics of Star Trek, a book detailing the physical limits that prevent teleportation. He describes the Air Force report as "some things adapted from reasonable theoretical studies, and other things from nonsensical ones."
Some experts have long criticized what they see as a military sweet tooth for junk science. A "remote viewing" project, for example, undertaken by defense intelligence services and declassified in 1994, sought to see whether psychic powers could be employed to spy on the Soviet Union. The teleportation report "raises questions of scientific quality control at the Air Force," the FAS' Steven Aftergood says.
Davis, a physicist with Warp Drive Metrics of Las Vegas, couldn't be reached for comment. The Air Force paid $25,000 for the report, part of a $20.5 million advanced rocket and missile design contract. The report calls for $7.5 million to conduct psychic teleportation experiments.
"The views expressed in the report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Air Force, the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government," says an Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) statement sent to USA TODAY. "There are no plans by the AFRL Propulsion Directorate for additional funding on this contract."
Explaining why the lab sponsored the study, AFRL spokesman Ranney Adams said, "If we don't turn over stones, we don't know if we have missed something."
Sources : USA Today Nov 5th 2004
Source : fas.org...
So why did Eric get paid so much for writing a short science fiction like?
The answer is probably that it's a way of paying him back for services rendered elsewhere. He's one of Bigelow's Vegas UFO Mob. They want people to keep chasing aliens whilst they carry on doing whatever it is they really do.
originally posted by: pigsy2400
Questions like;
What was Bigelow Aerospace actually for?
Was it a channel to direct other funds and projects through?
Was Bigelow Aerospace essentially a Shell company considering the reported day to day running of its "Operations"?
Why did he buy out and raid Mufons files?
His Motivations for doing so, with government contract money?
What was that data used for?
Something stinks and it isn't the by now mouldy "cookies and ice cream".
originally posted by: Willtell
Bigelow couldn't compete with Musk and Bezos, real billionaires, who came into the aerospace loaded with cash.
Or maybe the aliens took away Bigelows green card.
originally posted by: Jukiodone
At some point we have to recognise "it" all takes real time and money...and when the end result isn't proportionate to the input- with so many obvious sanity checks omitted - alternative theories become worthy of consideration.
I get the theory proposed- but when we actually have the benefit of hindsight to measure success (so far)- it makes no sense.
I just read it.
originally posted by: KilgoreTrout
Have you ever read this...
www.cia.gov...
Such as?
That same document though points to other Soviet 'paranormal' research that obviously would and is yeilding military benefits.
I could use some help in understanding what you mean, what "wheat"? I see plenty of "chaff".
You can, in retrospect, see how the wheat was seperated from the chaff, taking the esoteric to the exoteric, while some mysteries remain mysteries and others are out and out deception.
originally posted by: Willtell
I guess that gas-guzzling, slow rocket ship they sent up to the space station as an example the PTB taking ET home.
Bezos, Musk, and our friend Bigelow, nor NASA can’t hole ETs jockstrap in space
SpaceX was founded 18 years ago by a 30 year old who had come to the US less than decade before with basically a laptop computer and a backpack full of clothes.
originally posted by: Cravens
a reply to: Sublant
SpaceX was founded 18 years ago by a 30 year old who had come to the US less than decade before with basically a laptop computer and a backpack full of clothes.
I am a big fan of Musk and his endeavors, but let us not get carried away with a pauper-turned-tech prince-American Dream narrative; Musk matriculated through university programs in South Africa and Canada before making his way to Stanford (and/or CalTech), immersed himself in Silicon Valley — elbowing his way to the front of the stage as founder/cofounder of several successful startups — and eventually brought us SpaceX.
Musk doesn’t need additional hyperbole to characterize and chronicle his success.
The Soviet’s apparent lack of interest in out-of-the-body phenomena has led some US scientists to the conclusion that ‘they must be interested in it and investigating it,’ however, there is insufficient information at present to support the conclusion that such phenomena represent a specific area of classified Soviet research.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Such as?
Bekhterev’s original objective was to demonstrate that telepathy between man and animals was mediated by some form of electromagnetic radiation...by 1937...had concluded that no known form of EMR was the carrier of thought transmission. The EMR theory of information transfer is still unresolved by the Soviets, but is still the major basis underlying much of their research.
...Doctor Y A Kholodov has investigated the effects of a constant magnetic field (CMF) on rabbits...showed that weak magnetic as well as other externally generated radiation fields have a direct effect on nerve tissue...he feels that natural and artificial fields in man’s environment may have an influence on health and behaviour via the nervous system and the hypothalamus. Kholodov’s research is representative of current Soviet efforts to explain paranormal phenomenon on the basis of known physical and biological parameters.
originally posted by: pigsy2400
a reply to: celltypespecific
Need I remind you or anyone else of the penalties and legal consequences for obtaining, receiving and wilful distribution of classified materials is quite severe.
There is a right way and a wrong way of doing things...
I am thefinaltheory. I was the one who originally obtained the video, the reports, and the powerpoint presentation.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
"discovered certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET"
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I don't know if the Shamanism is really paranormal. I thought you might have been referring to the mention of hypnosis. Hypnosis isn't paranormal, but after briefly mentioning some non-paranormal applications of hyposis, that paper quickly got into some paranormal chaff which sounded like nonsense.
I admit, there is not a lot of wheat, it is mostly chaff but it is informative chaff. One man's wheat
Yes, it was an interesting read, even if it's almost all chaff, though I can't comment on what was redacted.
I admit, there is not a lot of wheat, it is mostly chaff but it is informative chaff.
Didn't they publish a report saying they were actively investigating this at one time, but due to the thousands of potential "suspects" they were never able to trace a single person and they considered the case closed?
originally posted by: mirageman
If so then you would expect that US intelligence services would be actively seeking to interview anyone who had made contact with the original leaker(s) of the video and presentations.
The best way to get people to believe a lie is to mix in some truth, so even if some parts are not true, I imagine some parts are true.
Are parts of or any of this 'leaked' tape story even true?
Are these the same slides (reports & powerpoint presentation) that were lifted from the servers of the USS Nimitz in 2004?