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White House says it has tech that can "manipulate time and space"

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White House says it has tech that can "manipulate time and space"

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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  • “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.

  • 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.

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

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

    Edit: sarcasm, since it doesn't seem to be that clear.

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