Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 SELECTED PORTIONS OF "THE GIANT DISCOVERIES OF FUTURE SCIENCE" AN INFORMAL TALK PRESENTED BY by DR. BOB WOOD MCDONNELL DOUGLAS ASTRONAUTICS COMPANY HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA on 9 JUNE 1982 .to THE NEWPORT-BALBOA ROTARY CLUB Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001103107 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 VFT359 THE GIANT DISCOVERIES OF FUTURE SCIENCE ~ Introduction And Definitions ~ Discoveries Of The Past ~ Discoveries Of The Future ~ Paradigms In The Making ~ Action VFT538 PARADIGMS ....... Universally Recognized Scientific Achievements That For A Time Provide Model Problems And Solutions To A Community Of Practitioners." .... Thomas S. Kuhn From "The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions" 1 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001103/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 GIANT DISCOVERIES OF THE PAST VF r361 DISCOVERY DISCOVEROR I DATE 1AGE ~Earth Goes Around Sun Copernicus 1543 40 ~Understanding Of Astronomy, Galileo 1600 34 Gravity ~Motion, Gravitation, CalculusNewton 1665 23 ~Burning Is Uniting With OxygenLavoisier 1774 31 I ~Earth Evolved Gradually Lyell 1830 33 ~Bacteria Cause Disease Pasteur 1852 30 ~Natural Selection For EvolutionDarwin 1858 49 ~Field Equations For Light Maxwell 1864 33 ~Transmutation Of Elements Curie 1896 34 ~Relativity, Quanta, E = MC2 Einstein 1905 26 ~Quantum Theory Schroedinger 1926 39 1 ~Chemistry Of Life (DNA) Watson + 1953 24 GIANT DISCOVERIES OF THE FUTURE Probability by Year 2002 ~ Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life0.9 to 0.99 ~ How to Begin Life 0.9 to 0.98 ~ The Origin of Man 0.9 to 0.95 ~ The Processes of the Brain and 0.7 to 0.9 Mind ~ The Confirmation and Basis of 0.7 to 0.8 ESP ~ Control of Radioactive Decay 0.6 to 0.9 ~ Unified Physical Theory 0.5 to 0.8 ~ Wide Range Psychic Discoveries 0.5 to 0.8 ~ Cosmic and Planetary Evolution 0.4 to 0.7 ~ The Nature and Control of Aging 0.3 to 0.4 ~ Teleportation Principles 0.01 to 0.1 ~ Time Travel Principles 0.001 to 0.1 VFK269 Approved For Release 2001/03/07: 61A-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 NICAP. 1 4 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 q Approved For Release 2001/03/07 . CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 M-43132 "AMMONIA! AMMONIA!" 8 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 M-43101 "WHY, THEY'RE P.LAIN FOLKS, LIKE. US!" M-43078 9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 "BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN EUROPE YET!" Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 M-43080 "IT'S A FLYING OBJECT, BUT IT'S NOT EXACTLY AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT." 10 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 VFK270 THE BEST OF THE JOURNALS FLYI NG SAUCER REVIEW 1@ @nm 26, N. 5 UFOs OVER CHINA Establishment of China a UFO Scciel@ See page 5 42491 CONVENTIONAL ESP CATEGORIES (PLUS PRECOGNITIVE EFFECTS) MIND 1 TELEPATHY MIND 2 \\'N I \S PSYCHOKI NESIS INES /CLA I W RVOYANCE CLAI Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 PSYCHIC CATEGORIES REPORTED VFK268 Time-independent? Time-Dependent? ~ Psychic Photography Remote Viewing ~ Dowsing Ordinary Ghosts and Spirits ~ Aura Photography Reincarnation ~ Levitation Prophecy ~ Out-of-Body Experience Witchcraft ~ Mind-Plant Communication Miracles ~ Psychic Healing ~ Poltergeists LONG DISTANCE VFK271 REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT o-A C.4@- -4- 12 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 TARGET-TRANSCRIPT COMPARISON VFK274 -IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THIN AND LONG. WITH A'NAIL HEAD AT THE SPOOL AND PIN END . . . SILVERED COLORED." CURLED UP LEAF "A NAUTILUS SHAPE WITH A TAIL." TARGET-TRANSCRIPT COMPARISON (CONT) VFK275 ;w-; a Le LEATHER BELT KEYRING "THE STRONGEST IMAGE I GET IS LIKE A BELT." ...... .... .. "LIKE A MINIATURE TOWER . . . SCALLOPED CAN OF SAND BOTTOM ... LIGHT BEIGE." 13 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 TARGET-TRANSCRIPT COMPARISON (CONT) VFK276 "LIKE A PENGUIN GREY AND BLACK AND . .... WHITE POINTED OR SLIGHTLY ROUNDED OFF AT THE TOP . . . OPEN OR POINTED AT GREY AND WHITE QUILL THE BOTTOM." FILM CAN SERIES Distribution of Judge's Rankings Transcript Letter Target A B C D E Belt Keyring J) 5 3 4 2 Quill 5 10 2 4 3 Leaf 4 3 J) 5 2 Spoon and Pin 5 4 3 J) 2 Can of Sand 4 3 1 5 (a) First Five-Trial Subgroup VFK272 p 0.017 14 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 PRESENT PARADIGM DEBATES VFT360 OLD NEW? ~ Nothing Can Ever Exceed The Speed of Light ~ Biological Aging Will Not Change Its Rate ~ Nothing Is Certain But Death (,War) And Taxes ~ Psychics Are Frauds. Those Who Study PSI Are Just Misguided ~ Man Evolved From Apes n The Speed of Light Is Not An Important Vehicle Limit mAging Can Be Slowed Enormously mBenign Weapons Abound In The Universe mPsychic Processes Are Reliably Amplifiable With Equipment, Chemicals, Or Both mConvergent Evolution Yields Hominoids On Many Planets 15 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 DATA - THEORY RELATIONSHIPS 3D1-64155 CONVENTIONAL UNCONVENTI ONAL ENT EXPERIM AL CONFLICT? EXPERIMENTAL DATA DATA 0 %t PRESENT USEFUL THEORY NEW USEFUL THEORY Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 QUOTATIONS "When a scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong." ... Arthur C. Clarke "This talk of going to the moon is all rot, and space travel is utter bilge." ... British Astronomer Royal, 1958 "But to place a man in a multistage rocket and project him into the con- trolling gravitational field of the moon, where the passenger can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth ... all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made moon voyage will never occur, regardless of all future scientific advances'." ... Dr. Lee deForest, 1958 "Science is not always what scientists do." ... Dr. J. Allen Hynek "They laughed at Fulton; they're laughing at me. Therefore, my idea is as good as Fulton's." ...Adapted by Dr. Bob Wood "Eminence does not necessarily correlate with significance." ... Dr. Otto Schmidt "A genius is a nut whose ideas were proven correct." A Univeristy of Colorado History Professor "While prudence is the mother of security, it is on the audacious that fortune smi I es. ... Lee de Broglie "I been readin' bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains ..... on the other hand, maybe we got the most brains ..... maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced ..... either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought." ... Walk Kelly (Pogo Comic Strip) "The story of unidentified flying objects is the story of credible people seeing incredible things." ... Dr. James E. MacDonald 17 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001103107 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 "Creativity is to see what everyone else has seen and think what no one else has thought." ... Charlotte Wood "I have never met an informed skeptic." ... Dr. James E. MacDonald "The more eminent you are the less you feel you have to read the literature in order to say something about it." ... Dr. Bob Wood "Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you." ..Targ & Puthoff "The essence of science is doubt." ... Richard P. Feynman "More harm is done to the progress of science by skepticism than by gull ibi I ity. 11 ... Dr. Bob Wood "Anything which is not prohibited is mandatory." ... Murray Gell-Mann "Any sufficient advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ...Arthur C. Clarke is Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3 THE GIANT DISCOVERIES OF FUTURE SCIENCE References 1. Arthur C. Clarke,.Profiles of the Future, Harper & Row, New York, N.Y. 1962. 2, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, deForest Predicts Man Will Never Be Able to Reach Moon, Monday, February 25, 1957. 3. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, 1961. 4. J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Henry Regnery Co., Chicago, IL., 1972. 5. World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corp., Chicago, IL., 1966. 6. James D. Watson, The Double Helix, Atheneum, New York, New York, 1972. 7. Charles H. Townes, Quantum Electronics and Surprise in the Development of Technology, Science 159, 1968-,--P. 699. 8. 1. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan, Intelligent Life in the Universe, Holden- Day, 1966. 9. L. Frank Baum, The Royal Book of Oz, Reilly & Lee, 1921. 10. David M. Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America, Indiana University Press, TF Bloomington, Indiana, 75. '11. E. U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Bantam Books, -New York, New York, 1969. 12. Flying Saucer Review, FSR Publications Ltd, West Malling, Maidstone, Kent, England, March 9 2. 13. The APRO Bulletin, Vol'. 30, No. 3, April 1982. 14, International UFO Reporter, May/June 1982. 15. Ostrander and Schroeder, PS chic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970. 16. Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, The Secret Life of Plants, Harper Row, New York, New York, 1973. 17. Russell Targ and H. E. Puthoff, Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability, Delacorte Press, 1977. 18. Robert G. Jahn, The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineerin Perspective, Proceeffl'_n_q@_ of the IEEE 70, No. 2, Feb. 1982. 19. John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, The Fire Came By--The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion, Doubleday & Co., 1973. 9 June 1982 19 R. M. Wood Approved For Release 2.001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3000020013-3