Posted on 10/11/2017 8:57:37 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Thanks!
For me, there are a handful of UFO cases that are solid enough on the facts as to suggest that at least some UFOs are real objects likely of extraterrestrial origin. Yet I am not at all certain of that and hope for more and better information.
i still remember having the begeezus scared out of me as a tyke when I first watched the “day of the triffids”, but not too many years later i laughed at “salt water” being the big solution to killing them. Now, using “salt water” as a killing solution is a meme equivalent to witches melting in the rain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids_%28film%29
And he's the only one who's seen 'em, what a surprise. Even the conspiracy website that 'investigated' his claims and managed to talk to three of the other servicemen he mentions in the book don't verify his observations. Where they saw a wild horse out on the range, he saw four tall white aliens walking really close together.
I've actually never seen that one, remember when it was out, that's about it. Sci-fi is part of the horror genre (aliens instead of monsters, technology or maybe telepathic or empathic 'powers' instead of magic, etc), and while I sometimes enjoy science fiction, horror is just dopey. :^) Reading your post, I do wonder if the salt water thing was an homage (or send-up) when it was used in the movie "Alien Nation".
Even though Sitchin was full of it, I'd rather have one of his devotees for a neighbor I see once in a while, than to have some damned single party state / zero tolerance / straight ticket voting / signs in the yard Demagogic Party nitwit in that house. :^)
And the Globe is Warming. Don’t doubt that the Reptilians want it warmer so they can do more feeding and breeding. (and what makes your think GEICO is a company run by terrestrials?)
That EM drive took (and still takes) physicists by surprise, and its design must be terribly frustrating, because it doesn't leave a way back out to some kind of acceptable explanation, outside of a purely QM model. :^) It's an absurd situation, not least because there appears to be no plan to test it in space. A test bed should be orbited, pronto! :^) Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX stated not long ago that they're doing work on nuclear propulsion, a system that has never shown practical feasibility and was abandoned in the 1970s (it can't get itself off the ground, it only works in space). Seems like EM drives (radio frequency resonant cavity thrusters) would be cheaper and better and easier to recycle after each use, but hey, the mighty Elon has spoken, the smoke has gone up on each side of his face and everything. :^D
“horror is just dopey”
oh, “Day of the Triffids” was a VERY dopey movie, simply awful, but back in the day, it looked real-enough to 10 year old kids who didn’t know any better.
and yes, since then salt water has been used frequently as an homage or send-up.
There are air-heads and then there are thoroughly lobotomized air-heads--some of which can be quite obnoxious to dangerous.
Except that the oligarchy still seems to be trying somewhat to squelch such advances from reaching very public venues and uses.
The book was really good.
“The book was really good.”
good to know. I’ll get it from my library; apparently it’s volume one of a trilogy.
The pace of the space testing effort by the academic physics community though may seem leisurely, but this is likely because academic physicists would want not incremental but definitive results. That requires building one or more fully instrumented and robust EM Drive models that are thoroughly ground tested in order to eliminate all possible technical faults, measurement errors, and alternative explanations for any thrust that might be observed in space.
Ideally, a space flight test also ought to resolve which theoretical physics explanation for EM Drive thrust is true and to provide guidance for how the design might be improved. As it is, there is no consensus as to how the EM Drive might work. The two best explanations in my layman's view are Unruh radiation or that the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory of quantum mechanics is true. If so, the EM Drive would revolutionize modern physics.
In any event, if the EM Drive works, whomever first explains and proves up the physics can expect that their future will include an early morning call from the Nobel Committee in Stockholm.
Even if they can’t explain it, those who build a successful design and launch a mission to, say, Alpha/Beta or Proxima Centauri, or Barnard’s Star (or even a proof of concept mission to one of the outer planets and back) will look pretty smart. Right now, the Chinese aren’t looking too good, with a recent major launch failure, and their space station falling down.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3471831/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3472291/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3575011/posts
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3594590/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3099801/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/875764/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/815344/posts
I admit it, that actually makes some sense... those ads, they’re everywhere... vaccinating us against fear... oh, he’s such a cute little gecko...
Technology and discovery was going gangbusters through the 1930s. Most research was privately funded then. WWII happened and the bomb changed everything.
Since the US Government became the primary patron of scientific discovery, significant progress in physics in particular has been relatively stalled.
The notable exceptions were proving Einstein’s theory on the existence of gravity waves and the verification of the Higgs boson.
There is, today, one of the most protected facilities in the USG that houses Tesla’s ‘recovered’ documents in New Mexico. Extremely highly controlled access.
Einstein was once asked, “What is it like to be the most intelligent man in the world?”
His reply, “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Nikola Tesla.”
Einstein even believed Heisenberg was more intelligent. His math pretty much saved quantum theory.
As for the speed of light being a limit, what we do know is that it works for building bombs and making nuclear power plants.
What may change is that a new branch of physics springs up along the lines of ‘dimensional physics’. The physics of spacetime and its properties.
I’ve never felt good about the notion of ‘dark matter’ to explain where all the missing matter in the Universe may be. I think we don’t know enough about spacetime and its properties - whether and how it can be folded, etc.
I know this - Tesla had likely solved the world energy problem before his money guy pulled the plug on him.
He was harvesting electrical energy from ‘the air’ and transmitting it either over the air or through the ground to a receiving station. He hinted that this electricity was only the tip of the sundae - that there was vastly more energy in ‘empty air’ than anybody could imagine.
It’s fun to think about, but entrenched interests and government’s role as an erector of barriers into new markets will keep any of this from our generation and the millenial generation.
The millenials are shaping up to be a pretty good generation. They are calling BS on the Boomers (aka ‘The Locust Generation), and the acquiescent X’ers that followed them.
Ernest Lawrence, a pure experimentalist... said, "Don't you worry about it -- the theorists will find a way to make them all the same." -- Alvarez by Luis Alvarez (page 184)
To anyone with even moderate understanding of how such propaganda memes are sewn, the January 22nd, 2018 CTCAM with George Knapp, A. Rojas, and 'surprise call in' person, Chris Melon, nails it.
The meme we will be subject to going forward is that conspiracies and looking back at the lies, manipulation, and the trillions of dollars spent in pursuing the technologies should now be set aside and focus on 'collecting more data for analysis'. How did that intro to the Outer Limits TV show start ... No need to adjust... we control?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.