The agency was funding secret research.
, and the manipulation of extra dimensions," and many other topics that will sound familiar to fans of science fiction.report on invisibility cloaking
, for example, the authors write that,"perfect cloaking devices are impossible because they require materials where the speed of light approaches infinity." However, cloaking devices that make objects invisible to microwave-based sensors, such as radars and motion detectors, are"definitely within reach of the present technology," the report authors wrote.
Other reports do not shy away from bold, sometimes outlandish proposals for realizing advanced technologies. In a report on"negative mass propulsion,"to look for extremely lightweight metals in the center of the moon that may be"100,000 times lighter than steel, but still [have] the strength of steel." To reach the center of the moon, the authors suggest blasting a tunnel through the lunar crust and mantle using thermonuclear explosives.
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