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originally posted by: raymundoko
Seriously. I don't know how people can't get that he is just a good story teller and decided to go with a leading mathemetician's idea of how things probably are.
originally posted by: SkepticOverlord
originally posted by: bananasam
Lazar had his fair share of criticisms, but out of every single person in this UFO research, at least 2 of his quantifiable assertions have come true before anyone knew the answer
Not so fast.
A lot of Lazar's assertions (if not all) are directly from the hard science fiction that sprung from the Golden Age of science fiction. Many "hard science fiction" authors became popular in the late 1940's and 1950's, with incredible story lines based on insanely speculative but plausible science.
Hal Clement wrote about gravity lenses that could focus gravity waves in the early 1950's.
Gravity waves/manipulation were a common theme with Poul Anderson.
Robert Heinlein used gravity waves a lot, in one story (Number of the Beast?) they were used to travel between parallel universes.
Lazar's "assertions" were well in-line with a fan of hard science fiction.
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originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: BlackProject
a reply to: bananasam
I still find it discusting and ignorant how people are so easily made to question lazar. Having studied his facial expressions through all interviews he ever did including his most recent interviews it can be clearly seen that lazar is telling the truth...
Or he has deluded himself into thinking he is telling the truth. There are people who tell subconscious untruths that their conscious minds think is the truth.
originally posted by: Enderdog
originally posted by: SkepticOverlord
a reply to: bananasam
My point is, Lazar's "science" predates Lazar. Ed didn't originate any he says.
I don't think anyone is saying it was Lazar's original work....just that he talked about it publicly way before such knowledge was sanctioned for general release.
originally posted by: Box of Rain
originally posted by: raymundoko
Seriously. I don't know how people can't get that he is just a good story teller and decided to go with a leading mathemetician's idea of how things probably are.
Because there are people who want to believe that the government secretly has alien-tech anti-gravity propulsion, and Lazar's story matched those pre-conceived notions that they desire to be true.
People have a desire to believe in the fantastic, so when a guy comes along and validates that "belief in the fantastic" with fantastic stories of his own, some people eat it all up, even with all of the holes in his story.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
a reply to: Phage
You just aren't getting the message and have that old pompousness that never goes away. I gave up on you a long time ago, and you keep validating that decision every time.
Good bye.
originally posted by: truthseeker84
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We already went through 1st and 2nd, 3rd has been happening for the past 30 years.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: truthseeker84
Yes, Einstein did receive some ridicule. But that didn't last long.
But are you saying that all ridiculous claims are true?
originally posted by: 3danimator2014
originally posted by: truthseeker84
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We already went through 1st and 2nd, 3rd has been happening for the past 30 years.
I think it's very sad that you want to believe SO badly that you can't see the very clear fact that lazar was wrong and therefore full of sh*t
Like what, for example? His "W2"?
Absolutely not, however, there are things he said that is verifiable.
...# 6. the recent discovery that gravity is indeed a wave as claimed by Bob Lazar many years ago. Frankly, there is enough other evidence that we could just ignore this one if we wanted to.
originally posted by: LordSnow21
a reply to: bananasam
i like lazar, but i suspect that 90-100% of the alien info he claims he was allowed to see was a smoke screen either fabricated by him or his employers. to me it seems he's telling the truth from his perspective.
anyone can say what they will about the guy but there are a few facts that i cant just ignore:
1. bob lazar knew exactly when and where as yet unknown aircraft would be tested on more than one occasion over area 51. they filmed the thing.
2. after insisting lazar was not at los alamos, the lab had to eat their words when reporter george knapp turned up a los alamos labs phone book in which lazar was listed. (why was he deleted from their records? with the proper "motivation" could other institutions have done something simmilar?)
3. the brothel court case. there is video of this trial in wich bob presents his navy department of intelligence w2, if it were fake he would have been charged with perjury. the judge even says, "its obvious its very diffecult to get information on bob lazar from the government....ENORMOUSLY DIFFICULT."
4. no education? regardless, he posessed the level of intelligence needed to build a personal particle accellerator in his backyard to manufacture an ingredient for the fuel used in the hydrogen powered car which he also built for fun. people like to claim that if he worked at los alamos he could have been a janitor. as an expiriment, please list all of historys custodial staff who built, maintained and used personal particle accellerators in their back yards for fun. This is what matters, either he was educated somewhere and the records were lost, or perhaps they were given the same treatment as his los alamos records obviously were, or he is simply naturally gifted with an intelligence usually not achived without a very high level of education. i dont care how he got so smart, all that matteres is that evidence suggests he is indeed smart enough.
5. element 115. george knapp says the guys who discovered the element were in contact with lazar during the process. guys like to cite the fact that the 115 that was found was unstable as proof that bob made up his story. just like there are different isotopes of hydrogen, bob says there are different versions of 115. the machine used to find the element requires the particle to be unstable to even detect it. had they created the lazar isotope with the right number of neutrons they wouldnt have a clue.
6. the recent discovery that gravity is indeed a wave as claimed by Bob Lazar many years ago. Frankly, there is enough other evidence that we could just ignore this one if we wanted to.
number 1 alone is enough for me to keep an open mind.