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originally posted by: mirageman
Truth is if Bob's story was real he has absolutely nothing but a story. Who's trying to prove him a fake? Oh!
Jacques Vallee noted Bob Bigelow sussed him out pretty quickly pretending he had the mysterious stable version of E115 but it was in fact industrial emulsifier.
See Forbidden Science 4
The video by Stanton Friedman does focus on objectively verifiable claims that Lazar has made about his education. Friedman is/was not some "debunker", he's a real physicist who believes aliens are here and spent his life trying to convince people of that.
originally posted by: Waterglass
a reply to: Echo007
Are his videos faked also? You need to focus on facts. The videos are fact. Not subjective psyop narrative planted by others who possibly bid on Commerce Business Daily to discredit them all.
After reading an account by Bob Lazar of the “physics” of his Area 51 UFO propulsion system, my conclusion is this: Mr. Lazar presents a scenario which, if it is correct, violates a whole handful of currently accepted physical theories. That in and of itself does not necessarily mean that his scenario is impossible. But the presentation of the scenario by Lazar is troubling from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Lazar on many occasions demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding of current physical theories. On no occasion does he acknowledge that his scenario violates physical laws as we understand them, and on no occasion does he offer up any hints of new theories which would make his mechanism possible. Mr. Lazar has a propensity for re-defining scientific terms, and using scientific language in a confusing and careless way. For these reasons, I don’t feel that Lazar’s pseudo-scientific ramblings are really worthy of any kind of serious consideration.
Yes, three real physicists, Stanton Friedman, Tom Mahood, and Dr. David L. Morgan have commented extensively on Lazar's lack of knowledge of physics. Not only his lack of education, but also the fact that he doesn't actually know physics either. I'll look more at a specific claim by Lazar that Morgan debunks in the next post.
originally posted by: vance
He lost it when real physicist accused him of being a phony. It's kinda like fake 'navy seals', the real Navy Seals know that they are lying, even though they claim 'classified', 'sealed' status. I tend to believe the real seals, just as I do real physicist.
As far as the troll and his assessment of my IQ, I don't have the time for such ****.
Lazar said: "It would be almost impossible; well, it is impossible to synthesize an element that heavy here on Earth." The interviewer even tried to make an exception that maybe it could be done in the future, but Bob explained why it couldn't, because "it would take an infinite amount of power and an infinite amount of time."
originally posted by: chunder
Can you list Lazar's predictions ?
Not inferenced, just plain straight forward where he has said I predict....
The last sentence is a demonstration that Bob Lazar doesn't understand physics. Stars are fusion reactors, they fuse lighter elements into heavier elements and more massive stars will fuse heavier elements all the way up to iron, because there is still more energy out than energy in when the star makes iron. For elements heavier than iron, you have to put more energy in than you get out and no matter how massive the star is, it doesn't do that during its normal life. To put more energy in than you get out you need something like a supernova, which is where almost all the elements heavier than iron are made, but it's produced from the previous generation of stars, and has nothing to do with the mass of the current star. So the mass of our sun is not a limiting factor in what elements are found on Earth, for Lazar to suggest that is a sure sign of Lazar's complete failure to understand anything about modern nuclear physics, stellar nucleosynthesis, etc. Here are comments from a real physicist about Lazar's nonsense:
The element, called 115, can be stored in lead casings much like this one [showing a lead circular container]. Lazar says the government has 500 pounds of it, and it cannot be made on earth.
Lazar: "It would be almost impossible; well, it is impossible to synthesize an element that heavy here on Earth."
Interviewer: "At least right now."
Lazar: "I don't think that you can ever synthesize it. The amount of....you essentially have to assemble it by bombarding it with protons if....atom by atom, it would take an infinite amount of power and an infinite amount of time. The substance has to come from a place where super-heavy elements could have been produced naturally.
Now we get into some fuzzy astronomy. Mr. Lazar doesn’t seem to understand where heavy elements come from, or
how they are formed.
First we have to assume that when Lazar says “large” he means “massive.” The “largeness” of a star says nothing about its mass. In five or ten billion years, the sun will be as large as the orbit of Mars. A star’s size changes drastically during its lifetime. It’s pretty clear that what Lazar should be talking about here is the MASS of the star.
The next section is a little vague, but he SEEMS to be suggesting that his element 115, the alien fuel source, which doesn’t exist on the Earth, should be present in those solar systems that were more massive at their inception. The implication here is that a star system which condensed out of a more massive primordial cloud should have a greater abundance of heavier elements. This is quite incorrect.
Heavy elements – all elements heavier than iron – are not formed during the normal life cycles of stars. The only time when these nuclei are “cooked” is during the collapse and subsequent explosion of supernovae. The supernova explosion then spreads heavy elements throughout the galaxy. For this reason, the abundances of heavy elements in any particular star system depend NOT upon the properties of the current star, but on the properties of the nearby stars of the PREVIOUS GENERATION! Therefore, all of the star systems in a particular region of the galaxy will have essentially the same abundances of heavy elements, regardless of the mass of star. If element 115 is STABLE, as Lazar claims it to be, then it should be created in supernova explosions and it should exist EVERYWHERE!
Are you trying to imply Lazar intentionally lied too? That's what Tom Mahood says on his website, that Lazar lied about the lights being saucers. The fact is the videotapes show lights, not saucers, and Mahood says they were lights (made by plasma) and Lazar knew it, that's the lie according to Mahood.
originally posted by: Waterglass
a reply to: play4keeps
he intensionally lied so they could use it against him to discredit
If you want to focus on facts, all I can confirm is I've watched the video here and it shows lights, not saucers, and it even has an introduction by George Knapp saying the video is not very impressive, so if you've got one that is impressive and actually shows saucers, please post it/them.
So let me be completely clear: The Wednesday night glowing orbs seen in the skies over Groom Lake by Lazar et al were NOT “craft”, they were plasmas generated by operation of a high powered proton accelerator dumping its beam into the atmosphere. And…..Lazar knew this.
originally posted by: play4keeps
a reply to: miragemansir/madame ... Can you fill me in on why you are uniquely qualified to say that his story is bull?
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Looking at the Bob Lazar story from the perspective of 2018
originally posted by: play4keeps
a reply to: KansasGirl and you would know. Another comedian
Kansas is a good distance from Nellis , Baby Doll
Yes, I also recommend it. The physicist who wrote that was initially very intrigued by Lazar's story as we probably all were. He's a bit of a UFO buff and has even been to Area 51. He has done a substantial amount of research, and has documented what he can, but he alludes to even more things he has been told in confidence that he hopes will come out someday from the sources he talked to in confidence.
originally posted by: chunder
Looking at the Bob Lazar story from the perspective of 2018
Thoroughly recommend that link in relation to whether Lazar is in any way yo be believed.
One can develop a number of hypotheses and I suppose I wouldn't rule that one out, but it's not at the top of my list of possibilities. Grant Cameron has an interesting twist on that, where he says the leak was supposed to come from John Lear, who he says isn't credible, so nobody would believe it, except the UFO religious fanatics or whatever you want to call the people who believe everything they are told, even by crazies like John Lear. But he says Knapp getting involved messed up the scheme because Knapp had a guest cancel, so he called in Lear's friend who used an alias at first, and Knapp had too much credibility, way more than Lear, so his getting involved messed up the psy-op. So that's another hypothesis, and there are other hypotheses. None of the credible hypotheses involve real alien space ships as far as I can tell. I have my own hypothesis which also involves John Lear, but it's not the same as Grant Cameron's hypothesis.
originally posted by: chunder
The issue is should Lazar be considered another Bennewitz.
I agree, and I don't trust everything Eric Davis says, but he makes an interesting claim which if you sat down and had a beer with him you might get him to spill more details to convince you, like who he got the information from specifically and then maybe you could even talk to that person, like Lazar's female supervisor at Area 51.
... yet there is nothing concrete to confirm what he was doing.
“Also, a Roadrunner (who ran programs at Area-51 for Los Alamos) told me that he knew Lazar’s female supervisor at Area-51 and had her pull up his personnel file. Lazar worked as a radiation health monitor in the unsecured logistics contractor facility outside of Area-51, so he was never inside that site, and he never held security clearances because he didn’t need them to work in an unclassified area. Lazar made up his entire cockamamie story about the UFO that he saw in a building inside Area-51. He was never exposed to any classified information, facilities, or programs in his work area.”
...
Eric Davis: “I gave you the facts. Claims of harassed and threatened people is unsubstantiated hearsay. George is not lying. He just does not know my Roadrunner contact who lived in Las Vegas near Indian Springs and worked at Area-51, and knew Lazar’s supervisor there at the time all this unfolded.”
...
Eric Davis: “As if Lazar’s verifiably false claims deserve a public stage. It was impossible for Lazar to do Ph.D. level work at LANL because he only had a high school education with a C average grade, thus he had no education or training to be a scientist. He did not take high school physics. His job was radiation health monitor which did not require security clearances so he did not get access to Area-51 since his workstation was at the off-site logistics support facility which is unclassified. He’s also a convicted felon in the state of Nevada.
“In civil society having been charged with and convicted of a felony crime in a court of law by one’s peers directly impugns one’s credibility, truthfulness, and obedience to the law. These three items go to the heart of why some people fail to earn security clearances. Lazar never had security clearances to begin with because his EG&G job at the unclassified, physically disconnected Area-51 logistics support facility didn’t require security clearances.”