
Serbia-born American electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, in one of his labs.
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When President Donald Trump, in 2018, boldly announced the creation of a "Space Force," one had to forgive readers who assumed that the White House then, surely, first must have solved the two greatest hurdles for traversing the Universe: antigravity and travelling at faster-than-light speeds, FTL.[1]
Anything else would have made a mockery of the event.
What general of ancient times would have come up with the idea of creating a cavalry before there was such a thing as horses?
The established historical pattern, when paradigm shifting technologies are incorporated into military organisations, is that before the technology is elevated into its own independent arm, it has first been developed and tested to the point where it has become apparent that it no longer can remain subordinate to any other already existing technology or organisation.
At the beginning of the last century, Man learned how to fly.
In 1909, that capability was introduced into the US Army: in support of army operations.[2]
It took another 40 years before the US Air Force, in 1947, grew up and became its own military arm.[3]
The reality is that the current top speeds of NASA's crafts do not even qualify as driftwood in the context of the Cosmos. The Moon missions of the 1960s and 1970s enjoyed max speeds of 11 km/s.
Back then, a one-way trip to Earth's nearest neighbour, the Moon, took three days.
It still does.
On 5 September 1977, Voyager I left the launchpad at Cape Canaveral in Florida in a cloud of fire and smoke and spent the next three years trying to reach Saturn.[4]
The time to get to our nearest star Proxima Centauri?
Seventy-five thousand years.[4]
What about a jump to the other side of the Milky Way - our own Galaxy?
Three billion years.
Man's current understanding puts the size of the Universe to be a million times larger than that.
What is going on?
Did former President Donald Trump suffer a moment of imperial hubris on the morning of 18 June 2018, and suddenly decided that what the World (or at least the United States) needs more than anything else, is a Space Force?
Or was the event a pre-cursor to a limited disclosure of some kind?
Is humanity already capable of true space travel?
Since when?
If Jane's Defence journalist Nick Cook is to be believed, someone inside the deep state may actually have cracked the enigmas of FTL speed and anti-gravity and did so already in the 1950s. His findings were published in his 2001 book: "The Hunt for Zero Point."[5]
Below are five 1950s magazine covers, distant echoes of a more innocent and open era, before public discussions on antigravity became taboo.
Was Trump's real gambit, when he made his announcement, to set the stage for a future roll out of paradigm-breaking space-travel technologies?
If not, the US Space Force promptly needs to be renamed the US Orbital Force (to avoid further embarrassment) because this is the only domain in which this new military arm currently is able to operate: within Earth orbit, be it Low Earth Orbits starting at some 100 km above the planets surface to the Moon, some 383,000 kilometers away.

Let's pretend, for the sake of argument, that Mr Cook hit the nail on the head and that somewhere, deep in the bowels of the US or perhaps even Western anglo-saxon-led, deep state, there are human built crafts capable of antigravity and FLT.
If prolific British film director Ridley Scott: Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000), and others, in the science fiction epos Prometheus from 2012 used numbers he had obtained from inside Donald J Trump's hypothetical space fleet, humanity would currently be capable to travel at least at 15 times the speed of light.
In the first half of the film, it is said that the spaceship traveled 3.27*1014km (about 34.56 light-years) in two years four months and 18 days.

From an astronaut's perspective, this sounds like a lower tolerable limit, since at this speed it would still take over six thousand years to get to the other side of our own Galaxy.
In the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, traveling at superlight speed is indicated on a logarithmic scale where Warp one is the speed of light and Warp 10 is that the ship is suddenly on the other side of the Universe in the same moment - a distance of at least 93 billion light years.
The journey undertaken by the spaceship Prometheus, which in the film takes two and a half years, would at Warp 5.4 be made in just 45 days - which is about the time Columbus spent on the Atlantic before making landfall in the Caribbean, on his first voyage of "discovery" of the Americas in 1492.[13]

There is a school within the research field of Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO:s, or UAP:s, Unexplained Aerial Phenomena, which holds that antigravity and free energy are twins, so here are some ideas of what humanity being a spacefaring civilisation might mean for those of us left behind on Earth:

Below is the most watched press conference in the history of the American National Press Club, a truly extraordinary and, by media, suppressed, event in which a dozen of some over 400 whistleblowers from inside the US government and its contractors, stepped forward and attested to the reality of paradigm-shifting space travel technologies as well as the existence of extraterrestrials.[11]
The event may very well be the closest the reader will ever get to an official acknowledgment of the so-called UFO/UAP phenomenon.[12]
Dr Steven Greer on why he organised the event:
"The reason we are coming forward now, is that we are asking for the US congress, and for President Bush, to move towards an official inquiry on disclosure on this subject. It has the most profound implications for the human future, the US national security, and for peace.""They are sitting on technologies which can change the World forever."
Text: Kristoffer Hell