People used to think that UFOs were impossible because they didn't show up on radar - and now we have stealth technology. People seem to think that sonic booms are inevitable - yet only the transfer of some energy into heat (due to the second law of thermodynamics) is required. The speed of sound varies by the density, temperature and properties of the medium in which it travels (in most material limited to around 107,000 miles per second). http://www.2physics.com/2015/01/sound-velocity-bound-and-neutron-stars.html
Thinking that aliens with technology capable of crossing interstellar distances will travel in craft that make sonic booms is like someone in 1700 thinking that a 200 HP race car will be something pulled by two hundred actual horses. It was less than 120 years ago that the first powered flight was made possible using pressure differences caused by speed. I am always astounded by scientists now who think something is impossible because human science and engineering have a limited grasp on a subject.
Too many small minds working like cogs in a giant machine. Science has become a religion, instead of the rigorous application of disciplined observation, thinking and experiment. We are no longer looking for proof of statements, but accepting what "experts" know and say. That's exactly what enabled the Covid panic to continue growing, instead of being squashed like trying to divide the square root of negative one by zero.
I am always astounded by scientists now who think something is impossible because human science and engineering have a limited grasp on a subject.
This has been a point of conversation around the ol' campfire with me as well.
Say what you will about Bob Lazar, I'm not bringing him up to talk about what his story is, but rather a side point that really resonated with me.
He made an analogy in one of his interviews or podcasts or talks or something, somewhere, where he talked about a theoretical instance of being able to send a nuclear bomb back in time to the 1500's.
So even the smartest of theorizers, the most skilled engineers in the entire world would take a look at this device and eventually someone would figure out a way to start taking it apart, piece by piece.
Thing is, no one at this time even had any idea about the actuality, of the existence, of things like radiation. Atomic-level theory didn't even exist as a human thought or concept at this point.
So they'd take it apart, and if it didn't just detonate and explode, wiping out a city - which in and of itself would be considered something on the level of God's Punishment if not just plain ol witchcraft and sorcery - even if it didn't explode, it would leak radiation, and affect the people working on it, near it, in the same city block as it. People would get "sick," with an "illness" that we've never witnessed before. Radiation burns, boils, internal system shut downs, all without apparent provocation and causation.
It, too, would be witchcraft. It would be other-worldly, divine. There would be no other way to cognitively put the pieces of what was happening, together.
So - by that line of thought, that's not so much a way of looking back and laughing at their naivete but recognizing that we are the barbaric 1500's to someone, something, else. Their technologies, breakthroughs, levels of understanding of the materials around them, are simply on a different level. They're dealing with what we wouldn't even grasp.
And that is what I believe to be entirely plausible, should any of it be actual enough in the end anyways.
Old news. Seen em myself. Cool af.
But my car insurance is still due and Jesus is still King. So.
You’ve seen a UFO break the sound barrier without causing a sonic boom?
People used to think that UFOs were impossible because they didn't show up on radar - and now we have stealth technology. People seem to think that sonic booms are inevitable - yet only the transfer of some energy into heat (due to the second law of thermodynamics) is required. The speed of sound varies by the density, temperature and properties of the medium in which it travels (in most material limited to around 107,000 miles per second). http://www.2physics.com/2015/01/sound-velocity-bound-and-neutron-stars.html
Thinking that aliens with technology capable of crossing interstellar distances will travel in craft that make sonic booms is like someone in 1700 thinking that a 200 HP race car will be something pulled by two hundred actual horses. It was less than 120 years ago that the first powered flight was made possible using pressure differences caused by speed. I am always astounded by scientists now who think something is impossible because human science and engineering have a limited grasp on a subject.
Too many small minds working like cogs in a giant machine. Science has become a religion, instead of the rigorous application of disciplined observation, thinking and experiment. We are no longer looking for proof of statements, but accepting what "experts" know and say. That's exactly what enabled the Covid panic to continue growing, instead of being squashed like trying to divide the square root of negative one by zero.
This has been a point of conversation around the ol' campfire with me as well.
Say what you will about Bob Lazar, I'm not bringing him up to talk about what his story is, but rather a side point that really resonated with me.
He made an analogy in one of his interviews or podcasts or talks or something, somewhere, where he talked about a theoretical instance of being able to send a nuclear bomb back in time to the 1500's.
So even the smartest of theorizers, the most skilled engineers in the entire world would take a look at this device and eventually someone would figure out a way to start taking it apart, piece by piece.
Thing is, no one at this time even had any idea about the actuality, of the existence, of things like radiation. Atomic-level theory didn't even exist as a human thought or concept at this point.
So they'd take it apart, and if it didn't just detonate and explode, wiping out a city - which in and of itself would be considered something on the level of God's Punishment if not just plain ol witchcraft and sorcery - even if it didn't explode, it would leak radiation, and affect the people working on it, near it, in the same city block as it. People would get "sick," with an "illness" that we've never witnessed before. Radiation burns, boils, internal system shut downs, all without apparent provocation and causation.
It, too, would be witchcraft. It would be other-worldly, divine. There would be no other way to cognitively put the pieces of what was happening, together.
So - by that line of thought, that's not so much a way of looking back and laughing at their naivete but recognizing that we are the barbaric 1500's to someone, something, else. Their technologies, breakthroughs, levels of understanding of the materials around them, are simply on a different level. They're dealing with what we wouldn't even grasp.
And that is what I believe to be entirely plausible, should any of it be actual enough in the end anyways.