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originally posted by: beetee
a reply to: Cravens
Quick aside: do you believe the US military have vehicles that manipulate time and local gravitational-effects, while Boeing still puts out aircraft that can’t make it to the stratosphere before suffering mechanical failure, resulting in massive loss of life?
I just have to comment on this, because it is a subject I have asked myself a lot.
My current thinking is that there has been some serious progress in this field, and that someone has access to technology that is very much exotic compared to our current thinking.
While this exotic technology may be useful for some very limited millitary or intelligence tasks, it is probably not mature enough, or safe enough, to make sense in the civillian sector.
You have to remember that because something can be done it does not necessarily mean anyone could do it, or that they would want to do it.
Just look at moon exploration.
We went to the moon half a century ago, so we know it can be done, but it is so expensive, complicated and dangerous that since Apollo, nobody has done it. Why isn't the moon full of private enterprise?
Let's take another example. Let's say Lockheed-Martin gets some funding from DOD to build a miniature nuclear reactor small enough to power a small flying machine.
Such a reactor could make perfect sense powering a submarine or a millitary space- or aircraft, but it would never been pushed to the civillian market. At least publicly, and LM would face some serious problems should they try, because the US (or anyone else) wouldn't want everyone and his crazy uncle to have access to a nuclear reactor.
Nor would it be very comfortable to have a million potentional nuclear disasters flying over major population centers in privately owned airplanes.
My point is that very advanced technologies can be developed and put to very limited use, without ever being releleased to the civillian sector. Either because there is no marked, because it is too expensive or because it is too dangerous.
We all know such technologies exist.
Stealth technology, for instance. Very limited usefulness for the civillian sector and closely guarded for millitary reasons.
What you really need to ask yourself is this: The US millitary has known for over half a century that humankind will expand into space.
Increasingly they have also realized for a long time that space will become the ultimate high ground in future conflicts. Do you really think that they, and their opposition, have been so negligent as to not do everything in their power to dominate this domain for over 50 years?
It was obvious after WW2 that unconventional r&d as done by the germans produced results not replicated in the civillian sector, because backing novel ideas is inherently high-risk, something civillian investors are pretty adverse to.
I think the US has demonstrated that after the war, they were ready to go after every conceivable idea that could produce the tiniest smidgeon of an advantage. If you don't believe me, look into the Remote Viewing program.
And yet we are to believe they would not go after technologies that would enable them to dominate space in a future they knew was coming?
I cannot believe this.
originally posted by: 1ofthe9
a reply to: RobertSheaffer
Thanks Mr. Sheaffer! I’m glad we have you around for...whatever this is!
originally posted by: Willtell
originally posted by: 1ofthe9
a reply to: RobertSheaffer
Thanks Mr. Sheaffer! I’m glad we have you around for...whatever this is!
What another possessed ranch? This one you could go hunting for ghosts!
I intend to get some financing and start a ranch here in Jersey. Put some YouTube rumors out that there are wolves the size of elephants! I’ll make a fortune!
Get Bigelow and TTSA involved and maybe even Ancient Aliens…. Put it in the Pine Barrens with the famous Jersey Devil IS KNOWN TO OCCUPY: I see it now: The Jersey devil meets ET, meets Casper the ghost, meets the Wolfman!
originally posted by: RobertSheaffer
Preview of Vallee's Forbidden Science, Vol. 4
Try this instead: tinyurl.com...
"apparently you get invited into the desert, near Sandia in New Mexico and there you see your first UFO."
"In summary; The secret project is illegal, it isn't within a government agency. It is small, it generates high-level "leaks" designed to infect the research community with false data, and the cover makes it look bigger than it really is!
"In the 1960s, the CIA began backing young geniuses, buying a round of physics educations, and pairing them up with UFO lounge-lizards at the Esalen Institute, a conference center/resort in Big Sur, California. Physicist Jack Sarfatti claims he was visited by two men from Sandia Corporation as a child in the 1950s. He later received a full scholarship to Cornell at age 17, and studied under the major figures in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He spent time at the Esalen Institute in the early 1970s"
You believe that Remote Viewing is an example of next-level tech being so incredibly disruptive and paradigm-shattering that it could only be done clandestinely and never to be replicated by the public. That’s your analog??