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Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 16 2019, @12:54PM   
from the space-ace dept.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Runaway1956.

Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

Recently retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Steven L. Kwast gave a lecture last month that seems to further signal that the next major battlefield will be outer space. While military leadership rattling the space sabers is nothing new, Kwast's lecture included comments that heavily hint at the possibility that the United States military and its industry partners may have already developed next-generation technologies that have the potential to drastically change the aerospace field, and human civilization, forever. Is this mere posturing or could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?

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• Re:Vague Threats (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday December 16 2019, @02:45PM

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday December 16 2019, @02:45PM (#932853)

  Surveillance technology?

  I worked for a couple of surveillance technology companies, primary customers: the military (around the world), and a major hospital chain.

  could we actually be on the verge of making science fiction a reality?

  Science fiction became reality in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, 1957 with Sputnik, in 1971 with the commercial waterbed, and thousands of other times over the last 100 years.

  Star Wars got a HUGE and very visible funding push in the late 1980s, 30 years later we should be harvesting more fruits of that investment than a few high power lasers.

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