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Originally posted by NavalFC
This thread highlights one of the largest fallacies of the UFO cover argument. Indeed, if we did have alien tech this would be perfect timing.
But we dont, and so none will be released.
Nations dont work on developing technology just to hide the fact they have it, they do so to be able to use the technology to gain an advatange - a technology un used gives you know advantage in having it, and money spent on mastering it a waste.
Originally posted by Divinorumus
More technology is not always a good thing. It can be used against us, and it also can put a lot of people out of "real" work. Take the farm tractor for example. How many people did that technology put out of "real" work? What happens one day when AI is perfected and the perfect robot is achieved? I'll tell you what will happen: humans will have become old technology and obsolete and.... no longer required!
Originally posted by X-tal_Phusion
reply to post by SLAYER69
Can you name some of these alleged "alien technologies"? I'm aware that we owe much to the space program but I'm not aware of us using anything that came from an alien civilization.
Originally posted by X-tal_Phusion
reply to post by Bob Down Under
Wouldn't it have been easier to just say "no"? Here's an article on the invention of fiber optics: inventors.about.com... I asked for specific inventions and you named just one thing that was completely, 100% man-made. I'm not going to go out a buy a book without a darned good reason (i.e., the author is well-known in his/her field and has an established record of high-quality work in an area which interests me). This is what bothers me so much about people who claim to have these Earth-shattering theories; more often than not, they're peddling a book!
Originally posted by X-tal_Phusion
reply to post by SLAYER69
Can you name some of these alleged "alien technologies"? I'm aware that we owe much to the space program but I'm not aware of us using anything that came from an alien civilization.
Originally posted by X-tal_Phusion
reply to post by Bob Down Under
Wouldn't it have been easier to just say "no"? Here's an article on the invention of fiber optics: inventors.about.com... I asked for specific inventions and you named just one thing that was completely, 100% man-made. I'm not going to go out a buy a book without a darned good reason (i.e., the author is well-known in his/her field and has an established record of high-quality work in an area which interests me). This is what bothers me so much about people who claim to have these Earth-shattering theories; more often than not, they're peddling a book!
Originally posted by X-tal_Phusion
Wouldn't it have been easier to just say "no"? Here's an article on the invention of fiber optics: inventors.about.com... I asked for specific inventions and you named just one thing that was completely, 100% man-made. I'm not going to go out a buy a book without a darned good reason (i.e., the author is well-known in his/her field and has an established record of high-quality work in an area which interests me).
Notice the gap? 1930 then again in 1954?
In 1930, German medical student, Heinrich Lamm was the first person to assemble a bundle of optical fibers to carry an image. Lamm's goal was to look inside inaccessible parts of the body. During his experiments, he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb. The image was of poor quality, however. His effort to file a patent was denied because of Hansell's British patent.
n 1954, Dutch scientist Abraham Van Heel and British scientist Harold. H. Hopkins separately wrote papers on imaging bundles. Hopkins reported on imaging bundles of unclad fibers while Van Heel reported on simple bundles of clad fibers. He covered a bare fiber with a transparent cladding of a lower refractive index. This protected the fiber reflection surface from outside distortion and greatly reduced interference between fibers. At the time, the greatest obstacle to a viable use of fiber optics was in achieving the lowest signal (light) loss.
Here you have a huge gap 1917 then all of sudden in 1954 advancement.
The name LASER is an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. In 1917, Albert Einstein first theorized about the process which makes lasers possible called "Stimulated Emission."
Before the Laser there was the Maser
In 1954, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow invented the maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), using ammonia gas and microwave radiation - the maser was invented before the (optical) laser. The technology is very close but does not use a visible light.
On March 24, 1959, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow were granted a patent for the maser. The maser was used to amplify radio signals and as an ultrasensitive detector for space research.
In 1958, Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow theorized and published papers about a visible laser, an invention that would use infrared and/or visible spectrum light, however, they did not proceed with any research at the time.
Ruby Laser
In 1960, Theodore Maiman invented the ruby laser considered to be the first successful optical or light laser.
Not much of a prehistory there just came out of nowhere in 1958
History of Carbon Fiber
In 1958, Dr. Roger Bacon created the first high-performance carbon fibers at the Union Carbide Parma Technical Center, located outside of Cleveland, Ohio.[4]The first fibers were manufactured by heating strands of rayon until they carbonized. This process proved to be inefficient, as the resulting fibers contained only about 20% carbon and had low strength and stiffness properties. In the early 1960s, a process was developed using polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as a raw material. This had produced a carbon fiber that contained about 55% carbon and had much better properties. The polyacrylonitrile (PAN) conversion process quickly became the primary method for producing carbon fibers.[2]
Lets look at the Inetgrated circuit, Father of the Microchip 1958
Jack Kilby, an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas Instruments in 1958. A year earlier, research engineer Robert Noyce had co-founded the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. From 1958 to 1959, both electrical engineers were working on an answer to the same dilemma: how to make more of less.
In designing a complex electronic machine like a computer it was always necessary to increase the number of components involved in order to make technical advances. The monolithic (formed from a single crystal) integrated circuit placed the previously separated transistors, resistors, capacitors and all the connecting wiring onto a single crystal (or 'chip') made of semiconductor material. Kilby used germanium and Noyce used silicon for the semiconductor material.
Another good example from the 1950s
Where Did Thermal Imaging Devices Originate From?:
Thermal imaging devices were first developed for military purposes. According to Bullard Thermal Imaging, "In the late 1950s and 1960s, Texas Instruments, Hughes Aircraft, and Honeywell developed single element detectors that scanned scenes and produced line images. These basic detectors led to the development of modern thermal imaging."
Superconductor 1957
Mysteries of Superconductors - BCS Theory
In 1957, scientists began to unlock the mysteries of superconductors. Three American physicists at the University of Illinois, John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer, developed a model that has since stood as a good example of why superconductors behave as they do and expressed the advanced ideas of the science of quantum mechanics. Their model suggested that electrons in a superconductor condense into a quantum ground state and travel together collectively and coherently.
This by far one of my favorite it seems to have just popped out of nowhere with no real history and yet it is the direction we are headed
Nanotechnology, which is sometimes shortened to "Nanotech", refers to a field whose theme is the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.
NanoTech
Ultraconductor
Originally posted by manticore
Starred and flagged. During my interview with Stephen Bassett, I mentioned that the mere fact of not having disclosure, and if indeed, new technology, renewable sources of energy, cures, etc., are being kept secret from the population, I consider that to be a crime against humanity.
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Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by Bob Down Under
Thanks fuel for the fire.
I'm also digging deeper for specifics
I say we need to start looking outside the box and not take everything we know as the gospel truth.