'Aliens' Messed With US, Soviet Nukes - US Airmen

RIA Novosti ^ | May 1, 2013

[Fennie]

WASHINGTON - In the midst of the Cold War on several occasions, nuclear missiles at US Air Force bases were mysteriously shut down, according to US servicemen who said they witnessed the failure of the heavily guarded missile systems.

But they don't blame America's Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union; they say aliens from space did it.

"This was something Russia could have developed, but it turns out they didn't develop this and we don't have it either - to be able to shut down nuclear weapons with a beam of light," David Scott, a former sergeant in the US Air Force, told RIA Novosti at a conference in Washington on encounters with extraterrestrials.

[BenLurkin]

Bump!

[BenLurkin]

Objection, compound.

8^)

[a fool in paradise]

[muir_redwoods]

There are probably a few technical difficulties still to work out regarding time travel but since the actual medium is space/time there may be an, as yet, undiscovered and elegant remedy.

[isom35]

I hope it was not the Pakleds, they are pretty dumb (and far from home).

[freedumb2003]

>>Heh, that reminds me of a character in that cheesy ‘70s sci-fi sitcom starring Richard Benjamin: “Quark”. <<

I LOVED Quark! What’s not to love about interstellar garbage men?

It was too smart for the audience and didn’t last. *sigh*

[freedumb2003]

“In the beginning, ...”

There was Keith Emerson. And he was good. Then Greg Lake and Carl Palmer found Emerson and together they did great Works.

Then came the Wakemaning...

[lneisone]

Sincere questions

If we hypothesize an advanced civilization passed near earth on a rogue planet within the last 1,000,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Would one of their priorities be to race out faster than the speed of light to block or recall ALL of their radio transmissions? Did their civilization bypass “the radio age” ?

Why have we not discovered a buried calculator or a jet airplane? Could a vehicle biodegrade entirely in 1,000,000 years? We never see a farm tractor calving out of a glacier. If their printed circuit boards had gold we should occasionally stumble across one. If they are under water why did they build exclusively on the coast?

[Norm Lenhart]

All good points. But that’s colonization, not existance.

Take the mars rover. In a million years will it be on or near the surface, whole and waiting to be discovered?

Or will it be dust?

Either way we exist/existed.

[zeugma]

I have a question. If I traveled through time wouldn’t I just show up in empty space considering not just the movement of the earth but also the solar system as a whole?

Indeed. That is a generally under-appreciated aspect of time travel. I've actually thought about the subject quite a bit. If you build a time machine, you must have it housed in a spaceship, or you'll die the first time you attempt to use it. It's also important to take a lot of motion into account. Wouldn't it suck to try to take a trip to last week and end up 10 miles under the surface of the sun?

You'e got big issues if you want to travel any serious distance in time. Let's say you want to see the dinosaurs, and decide to go back a nice round 100,000,000 years. Now, do you have any idea how far the solar system is from you. Given apparent motions of the galaxy, it could be on the other side of the galactic disk, or even further.

Though I've given a lot of consideration to the concept of time travel, unlike the previous poster, I think the possibility of FTL travel is more likely.

[zeugma]

What you are talking about are "rods". There is a lot of information on the net about them. Most of it is garbage, but there is something weird going on. I never have really taken a close look at it, but have seen enough to know that there is something to it, but I don't know what it is.

[steve86]

If I traveled through time wouldn’t I just show up in empty space

In theory the time travel (back or forward) is to the local frame of reference of the target scene, not to a particular point in space. The time machine is following the local reference forward or backward in time which is the natural way to interpret the process. Traveling to a particular point in space, OTOH, really doesn't make any sense except with respect to actual physical things.

[Safetgiver]

I did it on a lark.....I did it on a chicken, once.

[zeugma]

Why have we not discovered a buried calculator or a jet airplane? Could a vehicle biodegrade entirely in 1,000,000 years? We never see a farm tractor calving out of a glacier. If their printed circuit boards had gold we should occasionally stumble across one. If they are under water why did they build exclusively on the coast?

Google "forbidden archaeology"

[Hardraade]

Dunno about time, obviously.

Here’s Hessdalen. Start at around 3:35.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVgQ8Vkx3Ug

[MHGinTN]

Where will the solar system be in space 100,000 years in the future of our now? ... The problem of traveling immense distance is not erased just because someone wantes to postulate time travel. Our solar system and galaxy are moving at an incredible speed from, to somewhere. 100,000 years from our now, the entire galaxy and our solar system will be a huge distance from our now location.

[The Cajun]

Have read about the missile base shut down several times.
Too many high quality witnesses to ignore, too many redundant systems failed at the same time.

[Hot Tabasco]

Paging Art Bell...

Where's Quix when you need him......

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Sounds kinda nasty

[muir_redwoods]

Granted but let’s confess to a fair degree of mutual ignorance about the intricacies of travel through space/time. The concern you have may be addressable by the eventual technology. The scientists and engineers of 100,000 years hence are not bound by our lack of imagination or ignorance. This conjecture is so far out of the box that there may as well be no box. I don’t know how old you are but technologies unimaginable in my youth are already obsolete.