• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Top White House science advisor reveals US has developed tech that can 'manipulate time and space'

Home> News> Politics

Published 12:15 20 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Top White House science advisor reveals US has developed tech that can 'manipulate time and space'

The comment was made during the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas

Lucy Devine

Lucy Devine

A top White House advisor has claimed that US technology can 'manipulate time and space'.

Science adviser Michael Kratsios delivered a speech that has since gone viral, in which he spoke about developing technologies.

The address was made during the Endless Frontiers Retreat in Austin, Texas, earlier this month and has since set tongues wagging.

"We have weighed down our builders and innovators. The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build," said Kratsios.

Advert

"We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.

"But we are capable of so much more.

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

Kratsios delivered the speech earlier this month (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Kratsios delivered the speech earlier this month (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Advert

It's important to note that the statement was likely meant to be metaphorical - rather than implying time travel - but it's certainly set off speculation online from people who have taken it quite literally.

After the White House shared the transcript, one person wrote online: "We have the technology to manipulate time and space?"

While another added: "WHAT DID HE JUST SAY?!"

People took the comments literally (Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
People took the comments literally (Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Advert

And a third said: "@POTUS⁩ science and technology advisor ⁦@mkratsios47⁩ Michael Kratsios (a fmr under secretary of DoD & US CTO) makes the most extraordinary assertion here without explanation, that US, '…technologies permit us to manipulate time and SPACE'. What means he?"

And a fourth added: "Kratsios casually says we intentionally stagnated our technology in the 70s and we now have tech to manipulate space and time. Wow."


Others wondered if Kratsios would have ever imagined that his comments could have sparked such a reaction online.

Advert

Another theorised: "Let that sink in. Because last week, NASA detected algae-like compounds in the atmosphere of K2-18 b — a water-rich exoplanet over 120 light-years away. The same kind of compounds produced by algae here on Earth. The same algae that sustains life.

"And then there’s MH370, a commercial flight with 239 souls that vanished — no wreckage, no answers. What if they didn’t crash? What if they were relocated?

"If you think that sounds insane, consider this: Every ancient culture has stories of ascension, disappearance, or divine evacuation. The Bible calls it The Rapture.

"Science might call it something else: dimensional migration. Or off-world extraction.

Advert

"Maybe some of us are already gone. Maybe this is just the warm-up."

What do you think?

Featured Image Credit: Getty Images/Horacio Villalobos

Topics: World News, Politics, US News, Technology, Science

Lucy Devine
Lucy Devine

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

2 hours ago
4 hours ago
5 hours ago
  • 2 hours ago

    Cult classic film removed from Disney+ over controversial scene that had it banned from TV

    The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has long expressed its concerns about the scene in the 1989 movie

    Film & TV
  • 4 hours ago

    Vin Diesel hints Paul Walker could be in upcoming Fast and Furious movie and it's left fans very divided

    He's desperate to reunite Dom and Brian

    Film & TV
  • 4 hours ago

    Trump supporters are revealing the ‘red line’ that would make them stop supporting him and people say it’s ‘disturbing’

    President Trump's shocking approval ratings were recently released

    News
  • 5 hours ago

    Starbucks customer outraged after barista allegedly wrote 'illegal' joke on her cup

    "When I read it I’m like, OK. Was I supposed to laugh?"

    News
  • Website reveals where nearest nuclear fallout shelters are if major US cities are bombed amid WW3 fears
  • White House finally reveals answer behind mysterious drones over New Jersey following terrifying theories
  • Iran's supreme leader speaks out with scathing message to US in first speech since ceasefire
  • Trump lashes out after top-secret intelligence report shows truth behind damage done to Iran nuclear sites