Gene Roddenberry
<p>Called 3-D printing or additive manufacturing by the ONR it is the technology depicted by Puharich disciple Gene Roddenberry in his landmark television series Star Trek. Instead of building, say a propeller as the ONR does in its explanation, by subtracting material, as is done in machining; material is layered on by fusing it together at the atomic level.<sup>[189]</sup></p>
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<strong>In Star Trek</strong>, when Scotty needs a new part for his warp drive, he simply punches a bar code into the ship’s computer and the part is waiting for him a few hours later, built from atoms by the computer. According to Roddenberry this technology was at least 250 years in the future but the ONR is far more optimistic.
Besides anticipating near future “dividends both in the marketplace and as cultural modification” they are predicting that “the next 30 years will see a dramatic increase in our ability to create parts on demand.”<sup>[190]</sup>
Roddenberry – who aside from his relationship with the ever-dubious Puharich – was also taking advice on his scripts from the perhaps even more dubious, if that’s possible, Rand Corporation<sup>[191]</sup>…
<strong>This did not begin in the bowels of the now forever sealed underground citadels of National Socialism, although no doubt that is where its metathesis took place. It all began at the University of Wisconsin almost a decade before WW II, ostensibly before another world war was even a gleam in anyone’s the eyes.</strong>
The original bacterial strains were brought from UW to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Detrick" >Fort Detrick</a> by Baldwin. In all likelihood UW is also responsible for transporting its little prize across the ocean to Porton Downs.<sup>[192]</sup></p>