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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] 9 points 1 day ago

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

"Wow." - dream_weasel’s wife

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 18 points 1 day 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] 214 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Perfect. No notes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well they're right: it really feels like 1934 Germany right now.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's been 88 days since the inauguration....oh shit.

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

Fucking hell it's not even been 3 months!?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Hitler's birthday is in two days. Let's see if Trump randomly declares war on Poland or something to commemorate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's the day that the clown traitors he appointed to destroy our intelligence agencies are supposed to hand him a report on if they can fake a reason for the filth to enact martial law.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

The scenes I've seen of people around Trump, making sure to kiss his ass and over-emphasize with nervous straight faces what a genius he is and how well things are going, are the stuff of nightmares.

[–] Randomgal 2 points 1 day ago

Please be Aliens bro. Please.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

I, too, am a source of gravity.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days 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] 61 points 2 days ago

The time distortion first came when a huge number of dense people gathered at the same spot in the white house.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago
  • General Relativity 1905
  • Special Relativity 1905
  • Assclown Relativity 2025
[–] [email protected] 20 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] 1 points 1 day ago

They can't even manipulate their own fool heads.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days 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 2 days 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] 16 points 2 days ago

if true this explains soooo much.

1000001416

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Sure, sure… Even a plane can “manipulate time and space”.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Too bad they have it set to 1930's germany

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

white house discovers cannabis

[–] [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] 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Idiots just threw a wristwatch.

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

I was expecting something along these lines

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It's ketamine, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It is called the MAGAt field of stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Amphetamines are a helluva drug

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Oh god, the space age larpers took over

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

The pseudoscience and grift administration has embraced the Montauk Project

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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] 4 points 2 days ago

Then go get everyone’s 401k money back

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] wise_pancake 4 points 2 days 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.

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[–] [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] 3 points 2 days ago

He who controls the past, controls the present.

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