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Originally posted by Darkmind.
I'm not sure where you heard this, but there are no clouds on the moon. It's too small to hold an atmosphere that would sustain clouds and there is nowhere near enough water, except in some of the craters on the poles where comets have (it has been postulated) deposited it.
Originally posted by Darkmind
1. No plans have ever been found for such rockets. The biggest German rocket was the A-4, better known as the V2, and that was a sub-orbital device that could be blindly aimed at large targets like London. Even then it was crude and nowhere near as sophisticated as something like a Titan or a Saturn rocket. The electronics were 1940's spec, so no computers. Plus the first prototypes kept blowing up in mid-flight in 1942-43, until they spotted the flaw in the debris. A larger version was planned - to get to New York, not the moon. Again, it would have been sub-orbital. Not enough range, power or velocity to get into space, let alone the moon.
Originally posted by Darkmind
2. A secret base in the Antarctic? Where for heavens sake? And above all how did they get it there? The South Atlantic was patrolled by British ships out of Simonstown and the Falklands. How would the raw materials for this base get transferred there, through this cordon of ships? Hell, how would they get through the North Atlantic? And where would the personnel come from? Construction workers and so on
Originally posted by Darkmind
3. Antarctica is not forbidden territory. It is protected by International treaty from exploitation. If you wanted to go there to look for Nazi bases you can. Just wrap up warm, it's bloody cold. And covered in ice. Not the best place for a secret base to launch rockets, which tend to be delicate flowers with a tendency to go boom if you aren't careful.
Originally posted by Omega85
Perhaps so that some high ranking German scientists could start construction of a secret base and/or possibly escape justice after WWII in 1945?
As for your statement about how did the personell get there, Todays technology gives us equipment and vehicles that could fly all over the world undetected,
We even have planes that can fly at mach3.3 and become space born at
the will of the pilot, and can also come down whereever the pilot chooses.
One such example of a craft like this is called the Ascender
There are more planes and jets with this capability that could be equiped with harrier like landing gear and even perhaps stealth technology and who knows what else.
Just because you cant see something doesnt mean it is not there
The Antarctic Treaty not only forbids explotation and use of its natural resources but also forbids any structual developement on Antactica.
Originally quoted by jra
Firstly, you'd want engineer's, not scientists, building and constructing things. Secondly it would take a lot of resourses to build and maintain a base down there and to do it undetected would be even harder. One could use U-Boats to bring people and supplies, but they are very limited on how much they can carry, they are also very very slow.
Originally posted by jra
Yeah, today's tech, but not 1940's tech. And even then, what we have today is not totaly undetectable.
Originally posted by jra
The YF-12/A-12/SR-71 could go mach 3+, but it's no longer flying. It wasn't able to go into space. There are no other currently manned aircraft that can fly as fast. Perhaps there are some classified aircraft that can, but all information on them would be speculative at best.
Originally posted by jra
So far they only have pretty renderings and scale models. It's not flying yet.
Originally posted by jra
There are no known planes/jets with that capability. Any stealth tech becomes quite usless when you're a giant flaming ball of plasma when re-entering the atmosphere And as for Harrier like landing gear. I assume you mean it's thruster nozzles that allow it to take off and land vertically. You can't really just slap these on to any kind of plane. Plus the bigger the plane, the bigger or more powerful the engine will have to be and the more fuel it will use. It wouldn't be too economical to do on a larger aircraft or on a space carft for that matter.
Originally posted by jra
Nor does it mean it is there. All one can do is speculate. There is nothing wrong with speculation, unless it gets in the way of facts.
Originally posted by jra
There are lots of known bases and stations in Antarctica, all built by various Countries. So I think you are incorrect about that. Here's a list of some of them. www.newzeal.com...
Originally posted by police_officer339
I still think the biggest, best question is "why have we not gone back to the moon?"
Originally posted by toogood
Hi Guys
I think I found more evidence on this matter. It is a truly interesting read with pics.
I recommend that you all check out these links:
www.marsanomalyresearch.com...
www.marsanomalyresearch.com...
[edit on 29-4-2006 by toogood]
Originally posted by police_officer339
Still not sure where I stand on the German rocket issue yet. Got anymore info Omega?
www.unmuseum.org...
Some of the earliest stories about German flying saucers date back to an inventor named Victor Schauberger. Schauberger was born in Austria in 1885 and was considered by many to be a crackpot. Schauberger himself said, "They call me deranged. The hope is they are right..." Schauberger believed that machines could be designed better so that they would be "going with the flow of nature" rather than against it.
One of Schauberger's projects was to produce a flying machine, saucer shaped, that used a "liquid vortex propulsion" system. His theory was that "if water or air is rotated into a twisting form of oscillation, known as a 'colloidal,' a build-up of energy results, which, with immense power, can cause levitation."
According to stories Schauberger built several models (right), one of which was almost five feet in diameter and was powered by a 1/20 hp electric engine. Some reports indicated that one of the models actually flew. There are also reports that, according to letter Victor Schauberger wrote to a friend, a full-sized prototype of one of his designs was constructed using prison labor at the Mauhausen concentration camp. This craft flew on February 19th of 1945 near Prague and obtained an altitude of 45,000 feet in only 3 minutes. The letter goes on to say the prototype was destroyed by the Nazis before it could be captured by the Allies.
After the war Schauberger moved to the United States, where some contend he worked on secret projects for the U.S. government. He died in 1958, apparently claiming his ideas had been stolen.
Another German designer involved with the Nazi effort during the war was Rudolf Schriever. Schriever, along with some other engineers named Habermohl, Miethe and Bellanzo, apparently came up with several disc-shaped aircraft designs that used more conventional power sources than those Schauberger envisioned. One of Schriever's drawings shows an egg-shaped cockpit surrounded by a rotating fan-like disc that provided the lift. A Mieth drawing depicts a smooth flat saucer with an elongated hump on its back for the cockpit. Both would have been powered by jet engines.
As with Schauberger, there were reports that some of these designs were actually built. The Schriever machine was said to have been tested in 1945 and to have reached an altitude of 12 kilometers in a little over three minutes. It had a top speed of 2000 kilometers an hour.
There is no real, solid evidence, though, that a test flight ever took place and Schriever himself, who relocated to the United States after the war, indicated that any prototypes of the craft were destroyed, before flying as the Germans abandoned their facilities in the face of advancing Allied troops.
Stories also persist that the Germans's also had developed small automatized flying discs. One version was called the Feuerball. Another, capable of vertical takeoff, was referred to as the Kugelblitz. According to stories, these craft were only armed with devices designed to interfere with the electronics of nearby airplanes.
So were there really any German disc-shaped aircraft? It seems likely that there was certainly some experimentation with the concept within the Reich. Disc-shaped aircraft have several advantages, including low stall speed and low drag, even at high speeds. The rounded shape can also lower the craft's radar profile making it "stealthy." For these reasons German designers did consider using disc shaped aircraft, as did the U.S.
Originally posted by Omega85
1 . The person who put these pics on this website seems to have tampered with the pics, apparently to make certain areas stand out more i am thinking .Do u think it could have caused minor distortions in these pics??.
3.Is it just me or do these images seem abit pixelated and/or distorted?
I will however say that i found this image interesting . i wonder what it could be?
i photo fault? a camera fault? or could this be really up there?
Originally posted by police_officer339
First let me say..I am NO engineer...
Now with that said, if saucer shaped vehicles have such advantages, why are there none in use today?
Are they that difficult to produce?
Mildly off topic...sorry