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Bedlam
signalfire
Stephen Bassett's Paradigm Research Group released a link to this just recently along with Stephen's rather stunning appearance on the C2C show two nights ago alleging that the U.S. government has been silencing UFO and black project whistleblowers by way of weaponized cancer and poisoning...
This makes sense to you? This is what I call the "Dr No" or "Batman" scenario. The one from the 60's. There's always some some arcane, over-complicated, long-winded method of killing someone. "Yes, Batman, I've hung you upside-down over a vat of boiling acid, and a giant pendulum shaped like a penguin is slowly lowering a sword down to the rope..."
If they wanted to get rid of you, instead of "weaponized cancer" you'd get a "mugging". Or a car crash. Or you'd have a case of suicidal depression and shoot yourself in the back of the head a few times.
Bedlam
If I handed you an unlabeled integrated circuit and said "Make this do something", you'd likely be able to produce smoke once. If you didn't even know what an IC was, or a transistor, or that you COULD make something like a transistor because you were living in the early 40's, you'd be up the creek.
mbkennel
Veiling glare laser?
And so why did that defector get a load of polonium-210 in his tea?
mbkennel
Knowing the IC did something presumably useful, you would look at it and recognize that it was performing operations with electrical circuitry, and you could determine some of the materials but not the overall function.
It was already known that junctions of dissimilar materials could have non-standard (non-linear non-Ohmic) properties. Schottky knew about a barrier in a metal semiconductor junction in 1929, with rectification first observed in 1874, winning a Nobel prize in 1909.
Don't underestimate people.
crayzeed
reply to post by MarlinGrace
No. You're taking it too far. It's like giving a corvette to volvo to reverse engineer. The basic engineering is the same it's just put together in a different way. Physics are the same the whole galaxy over. Engineering is the same. It's just that they have used different materials or combinations of materials in different ways. Finding those ways is reverse engineering. It is not an impossibility. Hard yes. Impossible no.
jtma508
reply to post by Bedlam
They certainly wouldn't 'un cap' it. They would more likely use x-ray and other imaging available at the time to produce a very nice image of the circuitry contained in the IC. With that image, an analysis of the materials used, and associated electrical measurements of the connections, people would most certainly be able to determine the function of the IC.
jtma508
reply to post by Bedlam
They certainly wouldn't 'un cap' it. They would more likely use x-ray and other imaging available at the time to produce a very nice image of the circuitry contained in the IC. With that image, an analysis of the materials used, and associated electrical measurements of the connections, people would most certainly be able to determine the function of the IC.
DJW001
jtma508
reply to post by Bedlam
They certainly wouldn't 'un cap' it. They would more likely use x-ray and other imaging available at the time to produce a very nice image of the circuitry contained in the IC. With that image, an analysis of the materials used, and associated electrical measurements of the connections, people would most certainly be able to determine the function of the IC.
Why makes you think a flying saucer would use anything so primitive as integrated circuits? What if it uses specially crafted DNA molecules? Would an X-ray clarify how that works?
Zaphod58
reply to post by MysterX
If you don' even have the physics knowledge of how something works you can throw all the money you want at it and it won't help. You have to at least have some knowledge of how something works before you can engineer it. You can study antigravity plates all you want but if you don't understand it how do you build it?
You have to at least be close to the technology level to do it. The smartest people in the world couldn't reverse engineer a 747 if they didn't understand the basics of it.
Bedlam
But would you realize that the pretty patterns on the shiny stuff were junctions? Remember, they're damnably small in contemporary ICs, I'm not sure you'd see a lot with an optical microscope other than the surface metallization layers. The good stuff is underneath, and quite tiny. And that's only 70 years or so of tech progress. In 1945, they were randomly making wire-junction RF diodes from half-purified silicon. I'm not sure it would leap to mind that there were doping differences THERE under the metallization, if you could get to the die, and if you could strip off the metal and oxide layers to see the raw surface of the chip.
Now, go back some more - do you think in 1874 that he would have been able to figure out what an IC was? What about 1814? Only 200 years of difference, and you would never have a clue.
jtma508
reply to post by Bedlam
Bullcrap. Documents allegedly produced in the early 40's pertaining to alleged alien technologies describe components that were later identified as transistors, fiber optics, and integrated circuits.
A Canadian patent for a semi-conductor FET was filed in 1925.
Germanium transistors were demonstrated in AT&T's labs in the late 40's.
And by the mid 50's commercial silicon transistors and transistor radios were being produced. Even IC's were being developed in the late 40's and 50's. So scientists were well along the path in the 40's.
mbkennel
(1945 was not quite randomly making diodes, maybe late 1800's).
That's because the last 350 years has had an extraordinary rate of change, and this is slowing significantly now that fundamental understanding of chemistry & physics on ordinary space and energy scales has been successfully accomplished.