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U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’

• tr1ll10nb1ll 6y ago
  The direct link to patents - https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Salvatore+Pais&oq=inventor:(Salvatore+Pais) https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Salvatore+Pais&oq=inven...
• tgflynn 6y ago
  This article conveniently omits the most important of the Navy's recent statements on this topic: "When NAWCAD concluded testing in September 2019, the “Pais Effect” could not be proven." Source: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39012/the-navy-finally-speaks-up-about-its-bizarre-ufo-patent-experiments https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39012/the-navy-finally... Recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000380
  • tr1ll10nb1ll 6y ago
    Not really, the clearly mention it within the article. The War Zone obtained emails about the bureaucratic fight between Pais and the Navy through a Freedom of Information Act Request and revealed that the [mad scientist won](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37134/emails-show-navys-ufo-patents-went-through-significant-internal-review-resulted-in-a-demo https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37134/emails-show-navy...). According to the patents, some of the technology is “operable. However, yes, they probably did not update their article to the latest update i.e the link you just sent.
    • tgflynn 6y ago
      They reference the war zone article, which contains the relevant quote but nothing in the vice article that I could find directly states that the experiment failed to confirm the effect. The text you quote certainly does not. EDIT: I don't know what you mean about the "latest update". The original War Zone article was discussed here two days ago and it already contained the DoD quote, while the Vice article is dated yesterday. It's either very sloppy journalism or intentional clickbait.