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Originally posted by SkydancerAlso regarding Nano Tech! why hell are we still flying around in 40s tech rocket propulsion for our space missions?
I'm going to take a wild stab at answering, seems the power was so extraordinary a few decided not to share. (after all history has proved this with the USA being the mightiest nation)
I have witnessed people being killed for this knowledge.
Originally posted by Frank Warren
Again, I say take "baby steps" forget about aliens--start with the fact that we're not dealing with a balloons . . . what was it?
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by Frank Warren
Again, I say take "baby steps" forget about aliens--start with the fact that we're not dealing with a balloons . . . what was it?
Frank,
Well without wanting to get too invasive, what do YOU think it was?
You don't know for sure but you must have some thoughts on possibilities.
I haven't kept up but did read a book years ago, originally in Italian, that claimed the US built some experimental flying prototypes based on Nazi blueprints and documents. One I recall actually was a saucer, but it was abandoned because it lacked stabilizing design elements. (Saucers can't be controlled if they lose their lose their horizontal alignment) There are picture.
Just possible there was some nuclear test short of a blast, or accident.
And also a consideration there was some rogue intelligence activity that needed to be buried.
These off the top of my head.
What do you think?
Mike
[edit on 4-6-2009 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by Frank Warren
I'm on record for concluding (based on my own research) that what is known as the "Roswell Incident" was "extraterrestrial in origin"; I might add that I define "extraterrestrial as "anything "not us,"
[...]
Finally, re my suggestion for you to "remove the alien contention" from the equation is based on my own experience in discussing the topic of not only Roswell, but Ufology in general.
Most folks are stricken with what you described as "Attitude Polarization" or what I call "societal programming." I have found it's more efficacious to find common ground, or things that can be agreed upon (in any debate), and to proceed in in a slow, step by step process.
My current mind-set is based on decades of research; I didn't arrive here lightly. I might add that I started this trek with a very closed, biased mind and of course knew the entire topic was silly, and nothing more then hoaxes and the tales of delusional people. Obviously, the a fore mentioned was based on ignorance (and societal programming); however, you may find it capricious that I still consider myself a "skeptic."
In any event, (IMHO) it's superfluous to argue the "end-game" on such a monumental avouchment without first building a foundation.
Originally posted by Majorion
Hello Frank / Mike,
Im enjoying this debate greatly, been lurking here for a few days and observing. I have to say that both of you bring up good points. Although Frank, Ive been wondering who it is that you were referring to that you advised before Larry King to stay conservative and focus on UFOs and not "ET". Was it James Fox by any chance? - at any rate I thought James did superbly in his debate with Mcgaha.
Personally, as for Roswell, I am definitely on the side of; "it wasnt a weather balloon", Im sorry Mike, but theres just no way it was a weather balloon of any kind. Now; what it was? I dont know. But I am convinced that they recovered a flying saucer per their "first" press-release, but what exactly is a 'flying saucer' - I dont think that many people actually know.
Reports and testimony of bodies, and occupants. It was a craft of some sort, in my opinion. But its impossible to say whom it belonged to, and what the specific characteristics of the craft were, exactly. Although I was satisfied to accept Marcel JR's account of a metallic substance, malleable but unbreakable, and of course.. the symbols:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/11271966244e.gif[/atsimg]
Thats as far as I can personally surmise any conclusions.
Was the craft of extraterrestrial origin? - or was it something else?
Best regards,
Originally posted by Frank Warren
It "was" in fact James Fox--good catch!
Again, this is the juncture I like to see UFO abecedarians and or skeptics reach--"X" marks the spot, now start digging!
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by Frank Warren
I'm on record for concluding (based on my own research) that what is known as the "Roswell Incident" was "extraterrestrial in origin"; I might add that I define "extraterrestrial as "anything "not us,"
[...]
Finally, re my suggestion for you to "remove the alien contention" from the equation is based on my own experience in discussing the topic of not only Roswell, but Ufology in general.
Most folks are stricken with what you described as "Attitude Polarization" or what I call "societal programming." I have found it's more efficacious to find common ground, or things that can be agreed upon (in any debate), and to proceed in in a slow, step by step process.
My current mind-set is based on decades of research; I didn't arrive here lightly. I might add that I started this trek with a very closed, biased mind and of course knew the entire topic was silly, and nothing more then hoaxes and the tales of delusional people. Obviously, the a fore mentioned was based on ignorance (and societal programming); however, you may find it capricious that I still consider myself a "skeptic."
In any event, (IMHO) it's superfluous to argue the "end-game" on such a monumental avouchment without first building a foundation.
Thanks very much for the personal insights Frank.
Myself I gravitated to the belief in UFOs when quite young and kept an open-mind most of my adult life. It was only when I started seeing the attention and career seeking shenanigans of people likes of Strieber, Moore, et al, the MJ-12 documents, alien autopsies, and parade of Roswell wannabes I realized this had become a sideshow sub-industry rather than scientific quest.
I think the real issue is what UFOs are, why and how. I won't go through the litany of suggestions ranging from a highly theoretical alternate dimensions to pulp sci-fi time travel.
My expectations are that we are about at the level of being capable of understanding it all that medicine was before it understood things like bacteria and viruses.
Much of what we think we see and recall is generated by the mind rather complete reliance on our senses. How much I can only speculate. I have pretty developed ideas on this, but will elaborate more fully at the appropriate time and place.
The ET hypothesis I have great trouble with, not that I don't accept alien intelligences are within the realm of possibility. I just have seen nothing convincing among the thousands of claims of contact and am both wary and weary the stories which never seem to stand up to objective scrutiny.
Something is going on that we don't understand. We have enough sense and enough equipment to at least nail down some certainties and proceed from there.
So maybe we are on a more similar wavelength than I have been willing to concede.
Over to you
Mike
Originally posted by Frank Warren
Again, this is the juncture I like to see UFO abecedarians and or skeptics reach--"X" marks the spot, now start digging!
The Conspirators Guide
* Anyone telling the truth is obviously a liar
* Anyone Lying is obviously hiding the truth
* The more a fact is supported, the more obvious it is that "they" are trying to cover up something
* The only real facts are those unsupported and unsubstantiated
* You can't trust government, anyone who says you can, is obviously in on it too
* Never trust a photo that is clear and detailed - obviously it's too good to be true
* Blurry, unfocused, photos are the only real proof that you can trust
* No photo at all is even better proof
* Main Stream Media......Pffff
* Radical, outlandish, discredited, whacko, media is the only media to be believed
* If it's not there, and never recorded, then obviously, it's there
Originally posted by mmiichael
Just picked this up form another thread.
Some points of comparison for with UFOlogy.
The Conspirators Guide
* Anyone telling the truth is obviously a liar
* Anyone Lying is obviously hiding the truth
* The more a fact is supported, the more obvious it is that "they" are trying to cover up something
* The only real facts are those unsupported and unsubstantiated
* You can't trust government, anyone who says you can, is obviously in on it too
* Never trust a photo that is clear and detailed - obviously it's too good to be true
* Blurry, unfocused, photos are the only real proof that you can trust
* No photo at all is even better proof
* Main Stream Media......Pffff
* Radical, outlandish, discredited, whacko, media is the only media to be believed
* If it's not there, and never recorded, then obviously, it's there
Mike
[edit on 6-6-2009 by mmiichael]
How to debunk UFOs and Discredit UFO Proponents:
1. Point out that very large percentages of things reported as UFOs turn out to have conventional explanations (but don't talk about individual observers' varying abilities or how believers screen and investigate cases).
2. Always refer to them as UFO believers or ETH believers, implying that their position is faith-based.
3. Argue that any given case could have been something conventional and we will never know because we never have all the facts (but don't acknowledge that well-qualified observers have reported unexplained craft-like objects displaying extraordinary performance totaling in the hundreds or thousands).
4. (Corollary to 3): Avoid any mention of the patterns of appearance and behavior in unexplained cases worldwide for many decades.
5. Focus on the well-known problems and limitations of human perception (but never mention that people are incarcerated on the basis of eye-witness testimony, that our court systems could not function without it, and that if human perception were as inadequate as claimed, nobody would dare to cross a busy street or fly an airplane).
6. Comment regularly on human credulity and wishful thinking, in a desire for saviors from space (just don't mention that it applies only to cultists on the fringes of ufology, nor that close encounter cases typically scare the pants off of the witnesses rather than inspire them).
7. Always act as if no one before you has really conducted a thorough investigation in classic UFO cases so that it's only a matter of time and diligence before the answers will be found (but avoid mentioning that the suggested answers you propose either have already been found wanting or fail to account for the salient features of the case).
8. Demand that UFO believers produce just one spaceship or physical evidence that one has been here. (Never mind that other scientific topics don't require that degree of concrete proof in order to consider something worth studying, such as Agent Orange, SETI signals, or Black Holes.)
Was the Roswell memory metal secretly "seeded" to industry and to others who could exploit its potential benefits? How was the technology transferred while keeping its origin disguised? Why were bizarre "mind-over-matter" tests performed by government psychics on the shape-recovery metal Nitinol? What is the hidden meaning of the morphing metal? Newly developed information provides the stunning answers to these questions.
Originally posted by Majorion
Mike, I would love to read your opinion on something, since I consider you one of those hardcore-skeptics. Now no-way are you gonna tell us that what crashed/recovered from Roswell was a weather balloon. My question is (and so has Frank repeatedly asked; to-no-avail): What was it?
I would very much appreciate any speculative theory you can offer -- anything other than "weather balloon"
Originally posted by mmiichael
I find this memory metal thing a real stretch.
If the only tangible yield arising from the visiting extraterrestrials who crashed our the driveway is a super Silly Putty, I'm disappointed.