“reverse engineering of highly advanced alien technology would be akin to ancient Mayans trying to reverse engineer an Intel CPU chip ... it’s not possible ...”
Interesting post—a couple of comments.....
The first thing “alien technology” would do is tell scientists that they had a lot to learn—and they better start tossing out the “rules” of establishment science and creating better ones.
Some whistleblowers claim there has been actual alien contact and that the aliens have helped the process along.
This guy makes that type of claim:
https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Extraterrestrials-secret-think-tanks-secretaries/dp/1515217469
The other issue is how scientific revolutions actually happen.
It turns out that the “scientists” often get their inspiration from “angels” or “dreams”:
https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083
Check out this info on Isaac Newton as one example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies
It may be that major scientific breakthroughs have always involved a little “help from our friends”....
;-)
“It turns out that the “scientists” often get their inspiration from “angels” or “dreams”: It may be that major scientific breakthroughs have always involved a little “help from our friends”....”
that’s exactly right, and is one reason i mentioned spurts of revolutionary advance ...