“So much like nonsense”: why did the US offer to blow up the moon?

AATIP, or Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was created in 2007 and ran until 2012. It was publicly funded by the US Department of Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and attracted the attention of both UFO hunters and anti-corruption activists. The program initially became famous in connection with the study of UFO activity, especially after its former director, Luis Elizondo, released classified videos showing “unidentified objects” moving from American fighters.

Now, under the Freedom of Information Act, DIA, at the request of the American edition of VICE public New documents following the departure of AATIP and the related AAWSAP project to the study of exotic, bizarre, and largely pseudoscientific technologies for military purposes. 1600 pages of published research reports, contracts, presentations, briefings and notes.

Concepts discovered include invisibility technology, so-called astrophysical wormholes, stargates, negative energy, anti-gravity, gravitational wave communication, and piercing the moon with nuclear weapons.

“None of these technologies have even come close to being implemented”

Ends VICE.

It is worth noting that program experts do not insist on the applied value of these studies and often criticize them. In particular, in a report on the possibility of creating an “invisibility cloak,” the authors write that “perfect cloaking devices are impossible because they require materials with which the speed of light approaches infinity.” At the same time, in their opinion, providing invisibility in the radio range is “absolutely available using existing technologies”.

However, some documents mention concepts and phenomena that are not compatible with modern science. In particular, in the report “On motion with the use of negative mass” the authors to write: “If a significant amount of negative matter has accumulated at the center of the Moon, that matter is likely in an ultralight form, many orders of magnitude lighter than ordinary matter. A Swedish research team has obtained evidence for the existence of an ultradense form of deuterium 100,000 times denser than water. We assume that at the center of the Moon the negative matter takes a shape where it becomes 100,000 times lighter than steel but retains its strength… This is important for spaceflights because it will reduce the energy consumption of accelerating a ship made of such an ultralight material.

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To extract this “negative matter”, the authors propose to dig a tunnel to the center of the Moon with the help of atomic bombs.

“To make a cylindrical tunnel, not a spherical one, it is necessary to obtain the volume of destroyed rock. Therefore, a thermonuclear charge or an explosive lens (a kind of shaped charge – socialbites.ca) is more suitable for its destruction, ”said the author.

There is no indication that the US government plans to implement these plans. Atomic bomb explosions are not included in the Arthemis program, where the Americans plan to land humans on the moon by 2026 and establish a permanent base there. Experiments with thermonuclear weapons are likely to be incompatible with the mission and endanger it.

Evgeny Aleksandrov, head of the RAS Pseudoscience Commission and a well-known experimental physicist, finds fragments of documents on tunnel drilling absurd.

“It is very similar to delirium. On the one hand, they were talking about an ultralight substance that was “100 thousand times” lighter than steel, with the strength of steel, and before that, it was said about super-dense deuterium, which was “100 thousand times”. “denser than water. blatant nonsense”

He told socialbites.ca.

In general, the academic familiar with foreign publications and fragments of documents sees AATIP’s activities as a kind of high-risk investment.

As for the “cloak of invisibility”, this story has been successfully resolved by our Commission – it’s a lie. But about wormholes – this is the field of transcendental physics of black holes. I think this has nothing to do with us earthlings. Americans are very rich and openly ready to pay small sums by their standards even for light promises, ”Alexandrov explained.

American journalists drew attention to the fact that for research mostly AATIP involved the same private contractor Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Studies (BAAS), headed by Robert Bigelow. Bigelow is best known as a friend of Senator Harry Reid, who was actively involved in the creation of the AATP and AAWSAP programs. In at least one case, BAAS was the sole bidder of $10 million.