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A comment by White House science adviser Michael Kratsios has gone viral after a speech in which he claimed U.S. technology can “manipulate time and space,” prompting online speculation.

Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, made the remark during a policy address at the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas on April 14.

“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity,” Kratsios said during prepared remarks published on the official White House website.

While the statement was likely intended as aspirational language about technological progress, it has since circulated widely online, with some interpreting the comment literally.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

They can't even manipulate their own fool heads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

I'm just gonna quote my wife here when I talk about outlandish work stuff:

"Wow." - dream_weasel’s wife

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Growing up in USSR we had a saying: a comrad comes to you with a shovel, points to a patch of land and says: "you will dig from here and until supper".

I bet White House, with it's ties to Putin's Russia, means something similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Please be Aliens bro. Please.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity

Ok, so your on drugs. It's not a particularly unique technology tho.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I was expecting something along these lines

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

I, too, am a source of gravity.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Come with us now on a journey through time and space. To the world of the Might Bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

did someone just explain to this guy the half a century old tech scanning tunneling microscope that uses quantum tunneling for imaging

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Crap, they found the Democrat's weather controlling space lasers.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It manipulates space by “moving everything around you until the space around you is not the USA, but El Salvador,” and it manipulates time by making it seem like no time has passed as the space moves, almost like you were put to sleep with a tranquilizer (but that’s definitely not what it was)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It manipulates time by sending the entire country back 100 years, and it manipulates space by making it seem like the middle of Europe

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

if true this explains soooo much.

1000001416

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of the poster for the Terry Gilliam classic "Time Bandits."

They could travel anywhere in time or space. They just couldn't tie their own shoes."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Go where no sane person has been before.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

white house discovers cannabis

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Yea, its called creative accounting ... or fraud.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Too bad they have it set to 1930's germany

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago
  • General Relativity 1905
  • Special Relativity 1905
  • Assclown Relativity 2025
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Idiots just threw a wristwatch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

"Prompting online speculation" ... This line can be thrown into literally any news article.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

If they had the technology to manipulate time and space they'd just use it to commit election fraud

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Amphetamines are a helluva drug

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Then go get everyone’s 401k money back

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's ketamine, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

He who controls the past, controls the present.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

To be fair, these last 3 months have felt like 3 years so maybe they're on to something.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago

“Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity”

I - too - can walk, garden, and drink coffee.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

There is ZERO reason to believe this.

Or at the least there is ZERO reason to believe it in the way that it was interpreted.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It is called the MAGAt field of stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never considered the world where we invent the ability to accelerate time, and just use it for making workers work more shifts so they die even younger just to extract more value relative to those without the technology.

[–] [email protected] 210 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Perfect. No notes.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the speech, Kratsios emphasized the importance of American leadership in emerging technologies and criticized regulatory burdens that, in his view, had slowed progress. "We have weighed down our builders and innovators," he said. "But we are capable of so much more."

"Can we get some comments from the innovators?"

"No we fired them."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He's Talking about regulations on Big Tech in terms of data collection, monopoly and social engineering. We need to remove these people from the sphere of political influence. Break up Alphabet, Delete Meta, tax wealth not work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The cake is a lie! They shouted, certain they had grabbed the cultural zeitgeist by the tail

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