General Clark Wants To Focus U. S. Resources and On Unlocking The Secrets Of Time Travel

Wired News ^ | September 30, 2003 | Brian McWilliams

[mrobison]

Wesley Clark: Rhodes scholar, four-star general, NATO commander, time-travel fanatic?

During a whirlwind campaign swing Saturday through New Hampshire, Clark, the newest Democratic presidential candidate, gave supporters one of the first glimpses into his views on technology.

"We need a vision of how we're going to move humanity ahead, and then we need to harness science to do it," Clark told a group of about 50 people in Newcastle attending a house party -- a tradition in New Hampshire presidential politics that enables well-connected voters to get an up-close look at candidates.

Then, the 58-year-old Arkansas native, who retired from the military three years ago, dropped something of a bombshell on the gathering.

"I still believe in e=mc², but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go," said Clark. "I happen to believe that mankind can do it."

"I've argued with physicists about it, I've argued with best friends about it. I just have to believe it. It's my only faith-based initiative." Clark's comment prompted laughter and applause from the gathering.

Gary Melnick, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said Clark's faith in the possibility of time travel was "probably based more on his imagination than on physics."

[Luke]

"It's my only faith-based initiative."

This should bother more people.

[mrobison]

I heard a lecturer one time say that the reason we haven't invented travel at or near the speed of light yet is that you'd have the captain of the ship, as they pulled up to some far-away galaxy, saying to the navigator, "Here it comes, didn't it."

[wardaddy]

I'll vote for any guy who gets our government working on that invisibility potion.
First stop - Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader shower room.

I agree....tax dollars well spent...lol

[CatoRenasci]

I think Wired is on the "don't even print excerpts, only links" list per JimRob's post a week or so ago.

[Young Rhino]

Clark and friends traveling through time and space using a portkey.

[adam_az]

This puts him in direct loonie-competetion with Dennis "Mind Control Satellites" Kucinich.

HR 2977

...through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or...

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The next Doctor Who???

[jimkress]

Where in the posted article does Clark say he believes in time travel?

[tioga]

freaky thought....

Clarke -- "It's my only faith-based initiative."

Do I hear tinfoil award winner of the day?

[Young Rhino]

Bates Clark for Prez '04

[bobjam]

"As this will obviously be one of the main issues of the election..."
Of course it is; the dems are just dreaming of the good 'ole days of Carter's Amerika

[mrobison]

Let's see... What is faster than the speed of light? Elmo explains this on Sesame Street all the time.

[Pete'sWife]

Note to Gen'l. Clark:

I spent my life, up to this moment, in the past.

It's pretty cool.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Been there, done that.......

[FReepaholic]

>>..."I still believe in e=mc², but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go," said Clark. "I happen to believe that mankind can do it."...<<

Nothing wrong with hoping for faster-than-light travel.

[Petronski]

[mrobison]

I think that's a help wanted ad for Schwarzenegger's new campaign manager.

[Liberal Classic]

The Einstein-Rosen bridge speculation is interesting, but most likely impractible. Even if it were theoretically possible for such a bridge to exist, it would likely require and infinite amount of energy to create and sustain. I really think it is the realm of fantasy. In my speculative opinion, intersteller travel will consist of great arks taking hundreds of years to reach the stars in the local group. Probes might be able to accellerate to a considerable fraction of c, but getting information back will take years time.

Besides, we need to crawn before we can walk, and that means mining asteroids. Personally, I think Mars is a lost cause. It is far too cold, would take centuries to make as habitable as Antarctica, and still has a gravity well which makes getting off the surface difficult. My opinions lie more along the lines of Gerard K O'Neill, which is in short building rotating habitats all throughout the solar system. Thousands and thousands of Babylon Fives, if you will.

[buwaya]

Actually, physics has been getting awfully interesting lately. There have been successful quantum-entanglement experiments that have transmitted information at faster-than-light speeds for instance.

Scientific American should be required reading for good conservatives, though it is somewhat lefty when given the chance. Do not stick your heads in a rut, because that way you can't see the road.

[Jen]

Gary Melnick, a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said Clark's faith in the possibility of time travel was "probably based more on his imagination than on physics."

RA, do you agree?