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Originally posted by TruthCanHurt
I believe Corso said micro-circuit or microchip and not the transistor. That transistor doesn't look very tiny.
Originally posted by Access Denied
What if these spaceships can never fly at all, just been built by aliens for us to learn? Just like toys for kids, on what they learn to do certain things.
Originally posted by ArMaP
The micro-circuit and the microchip are only an evolution of the way of creating the transistors.
Second of all, the Africans would sell that laptop for advanced nations, who will be able to use it, for whatever they want to. Meaning the same in USA: If a crashed UFO is found, let's call the aliens for help. Obvious, isn't it?
Pehaps that was a bad analogy. That analogy was to answer your question about how difficult figuring out how to even “turn on the lights” would be. Also, this village would have to be isolated for that analogy to work of course. A better analogy would probably be dropping that laptop into a remote primitive village and expecting them to make another laptop (i.e. reverse engineer) just like it. I think it’s safe to say it would take them about as long as it did us to develop the technology to make it in the first place… say 100 years?
If what you’re trying to say is reverse engineering an alien spaceship would be practically impossible then I agree. If you’re asking does it makes sense for aliens to leave us a spaceship to learn from then I would say definitely not… if they wanted to help it would be better if they left us the plans, operator's manual, and machines used to make it don't you think?
Originally posted by Ectoterrestrial
Hey Access. I'm not trying to mislead anyone. I'm just wondering what the story of the funding for their research was, that's all. That is, who was funding the Bell guys at the time of the discovery, and how much money was in the Bell guy's budget at the time? That's all. It might shed light on the feasibility of Corso's claims. It might not. Seems like it might be worth finding out.
Originally posted by Access Denied
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Access Denied, you are lying, again.
Again???
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Originally posted by mythatsabigprobe
He didn't say the transistor was built in 1906, he said the vacuum tube triode was built then.
If that is the case then i most certainly owe Access Denied an apology.
Access Denied, I am sorry
Umm... apology accepted... but is there a problem here?
Originally posted by Access Denied
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
No problem, except for my state of mind at that moment, and not seeing exactly what was being said.
Cool.
I understand this subject can get emotional in a hurry.
So was there any PUI or PWD involved?
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
No problem, i interpreted your words from a post on page one to mean that you were saying that the transistor was invented in the early 1900s, instead of in 1947. I said i could not find any information about the transistor being invented prior to 1947, and called you a liar. My apology was for calling you a liar, which you did not, you were talking about the technology that preceded the transistor.
No problem, except for my state of mind at that moment, and not seeing exactly what was being said.