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US Army Will Study ‘Metamaterials’ Collected by UFO Study Group
- pavelrub 7y agoIMO this isn't particularly news worthy. It's some small unit in the Army doing some minor collaboration with a questionable group of people on a pseudosceintific subject. The US military and government have a very long history of doing things like this, with zero results.
- typeformer 7y agoNo offence but honestly your comment is perhaps the thing that isn't really that interesting...
- typeformer 7y agoI'd just like to say this to all the super-smart skeptics on hackernews who think they are experts on just about everything including the UFO/ET topic, you're wrong, and that's okay, it's really okay. Your world is about to get very exciting soon as the smart money has already positioned its self to grab the trillion-dollar opportunities in this emerging space (no pun intended). Peter Thiel, although a certified jerk, is also one of the first VC's to educate himself on exotic ET originated metamaterials, others will follow shortly... https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-vc-firm-founders-fund-hereticon-conference-immortality-ufo-2019-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-vc-firm-founders...
- trentlott 7y agoFun how there isn't in any information that would be relevant to actual materials scientists No properties, no pictures, no masses collected for these amazing 'found' materials, nada Peter Thiel can spend his money on whatever he wants, I guess. I'm not concerned Polymers and inorganic complexes can do a lot of really interesting things that are counter-intuitive (ie becoming insoluble on heating, robust mechanical behavior), but they're expensive and require mildly annoying synthesis in some cases If we have to harvest magic dust from a meteor or perform some complex synthesis to get it to work, it won't be any more widespread than specialty PNIPAM copolymers