Lecture on Advanced Technology Concepts

I got a flyer from the School of Engineering inviting me to a lecture by

Ben

Rich.

Ben Rich was the director of Lockheed's Skunk Works for sixteen

years. He oversaw a number of USAP that were secretly managed

at the Skunk Works, including, most notably, the development of the

F-117 stealth fighter.

Ben shared a slide set of about forty slides of different things, starting with

the U2 spy plane, going all the way up to the, uh,

stealth fighter at that

time, mentioning that, uh, he couldn't talk about the other secret

stuff.

But when he ended his talk was he had a slide of a black disk zipping

off into outer space, and he ended his, his talk with these words,

"We now have the technology to take ET home."

So you have to have vision, and you have to have the guts

and the courage to go out

past the steps and do something of any value, and we

have to go past our grasp.

Um, and we asked him questions about it, you know, "What'd you mean when you said

we have the technology to take ET home?" Um, Ben shared three

major things that I think are, are worthy of research by, uh,

researchers worldwide at this point in time.

Uh, the first was we've somehow figured out

how to do interstellar travel already.

It's known. The second point he made was that there was an error in the

equations. My suspicion is it's probably Maxwell's equations for

electromagnetic theory.

The third thing he said was, "How does ESP work?" And I was

really kinda startled because I didn't know what to say, but I blurted out, "I

don't know. All points in time and space are connected."

And he looked me back in

the eye and he said, "That's how it works."