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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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dammit
The time distortion first came when a huge number of dense people gathered at the same spot in the white house.
“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.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
- General Relativity 1905
- Special Relativity 1905
- Assclown Relativity 2025
pIt 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)
It manipulates time by sending the entire country back 100 years, and it manipulates space by making it seem like the middle of Europe
Sure, sure… Even a plane can “manipulate time and space”.
To be fair, these last 3 months have felt like 3 years so maybe they’re on to something.
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.
I can too.
I can move through space all the way to next to my nightstand and change the clock’s time with a little wheel behind it.
if true this explains soooo much.
I, too, am a source of gravity.
Yea, its called creative accounting … or fraud.
I’m just gonna quote my wife here when I talk about outlandish work stuff:
“Wow.” - dream_weasel’s wife
