Posted on 12/19/2019 4:24:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast’s lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever. Is this mere posturing or could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?
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Kwast delivered a lecture at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C. on November 20, 2019, titled “The Urgent Need for a U.S. Space Force.” Kwast’s wide-ranging speech described the power of new technologies to revolutionize humankind, referencing the competitive advantage the discovery of fire offered to early humans and the strategic value that nuclear weapons offered 20th-century superpowers. When it comes to current revolutionary technologies, Kwast says the “the power of space will change world power forever” and that it’s up to the United States military to leverage that power...
Around the 12:00 mark in the speech, Kwast makes the somewhat bizarre claim that the U.S. currently possesses revolutionary technologies that could render current aerospace capabilities obsolete:
"The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour."
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Post 19, please.
One thing for sure, I know it’s not solar powered.
3. Hypersonic, Post 19, please.
Post 19. Boeing would be fine, Lockheed Marin as well. Both have hypersonic capabilities. Need bucks to mass produce.
I’ve posted it before...
I have a relative who worked for Sandia Labs and Los Alamos. I used to try to pry any morsel of info about cutting edge tech from him, much to his annoyance.
At one point he said...
“You like science fiction, right? Think of where you think we are, add 100 years, and you are getting close.”
Another family member works for the Air Force Research Lab at Kirkland AFB. All we know is that he works with lasers. One day he came home from work visibly stunned. When asked what was the matter, he gave them the “I can’t talk about it” look, but later referred to the “day everything changed.”
I truly believe we are WAY more technically advanced than most people realize. I also believe these technologies are being withheld “for our own good.” Imagine the economic chaos that would ensue if the world had “free” energy. Would the population surpass the earth’s ability to support it if we suddenly had plentiful clean water and food? What if the cost of advanced technology was mandatory sterilized and/or abortion? Could we survive if people lived to be 300 years old? Could an anti-gravity technology become a devastating weapon?
These questions keep me up at night.
He said, "...deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour."
He’s talking about making a suborbital arc in something like a Spaceship One. At peak you’re moving many times faster the speed of sound; so you can get anywhere you want on Earth very quickly. It’s not being done because it’s an insanely expensive way to travel.
Government doesn’t do things by sheer accident. The “release” of the video of “tic tacs” performing stunning aerial feats evading US fighter jets wasn’t a fluke. Lay your groundwork for eventual unveiling of advanced technology. Whatever Tesla had in his hotel room after he died and the material seized ended up somewhere. I suspect certain agencies have fantastical technologies that simply cannot be shown the light of day at this time.
Hypersonic.
My first thought was 'I wonder how much the airlines and Boeing paid to keep that tech under wraps?'
There were stories abounding in the 70's about engines that were powered by H2O, getting diesel oil from castor beans, and all kinds of wild crap. OK, so fuel cells that can 'crack' the H2 from the O and then burn that do exist, but they can't compete with gas/diesel engines for efficiency. So here we are 45 years later, still burning gas and tinkering around with fuel cells to get them competitive.
“loose lips...”
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This is exactly how I feel.
Any advanced technology that we have should be kept close to the vest. The more of a competitive advantage it is, the higher the level of secrecy.
My naive kumbaya friends probably will start espousing concept of helping mankind, and while I’m no ted kazinski I just don’t buy into the idea that rocket trains and wifi make humanity better. What history has proven is that the strong take from the weak, often in very bloody and finalistic ways.
Hypersonic tech - already developed, in the process of being made viable for military/commercial use.
There’s a very good reason we haven’t sent a rocket to the “moon” in 50 years.
1. Radiation
2. Radiation
3. Radiation
My brother and his quantum physics professor did a study on UFO’s. They came to the conclusion that the craft travel between dimensions. My brother took the class (at age 60+) when I got him the book “Unconventional Flying Objects”. Interesting read. He wanted to see if it made sense, and his professor was intrigued by the idea that “force fields” provided propulsion, and protected occupants from inertial forces.
We are talking instantaneous travel.
Perhaps a manned version of the X-37 Space Plane?
https://newatlas.com/x37b-manned-spaceplane/20175/
Anywhere in the universe?
Include a pizza and it will be 30 minutes or its free.
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