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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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[-] Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago
[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Perfect. No notes.

[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] radix@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

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.

Yep. Calling it now: insurrection act will be invoked on Sunday.

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

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

"Wow." - dream_weasel’s wife

[-] DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I, too, am a source of gravity.

[-] peterg75@discuss.online 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

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)

[-] Iceman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] skhayfa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.

[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[-] Marthirial@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
  • General Relativity 1905
  • Special Relativity 1905
  • Assclown Relativity 2025
[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 1 month ago

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."

[-] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

It is called the MAGAt field of stupidity.

[-] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

if true this explains soooo much.

1000001416

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Manipulating time and space, hrm. I'm going to guess they bought themselves a snowglobe.

[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Too bad they have it set to 1930's germany

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

He who controls the past, controls the present.

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

white house discovers cannabis

[-] obvs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's ketamine, isn't it?

[-] alphapuggle@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Amphetamines are a helluva drug

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Please be Aliens bro. Please.

[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They can't even manipulate their own fool heads.

[-] Frjttr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago
[-] WeeneyTodd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I was expecting something along these lines

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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