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Originally posted by fleabit
I personally believe the number of actual sightings is rare. And also that it's been pretty much a constant throughout the decades, or perhaps even centuries. It's never been a common occurrence. The only reason the # of sightings has gone up is because of the cheap availability of portable recording devices. So people are taking pictures or video of every speck, dot, reflection, lantern, plane, blimp, cloud, bird, balloon, bug, etc. et al.
The sightings are there - it's just that people (like the media) have a penchant for dramatic sightings.. or that is, sightings that have been dramatized into something spectacular by youtube or the media. Lacking that, people don't like talking about the humdrum boring sightings.. which are probably the ones that actually have merit.
It's amusing to go through the pages on this board, and find threads about an umbrella.. UMBRELLA!!.. that gets literally dozens of pages and hundreds of stars. And yet one of the best cases out there.. a UFO that followed a military spy plane for hundreds of miles, was caught on more than one radar, seen by the pilots, and performed feats they could not match.. that case got less than ONE PAGE.
That's why it seems to be dropping off. I don't look for the spectacular like a rocket spiral to fulfill my UFO interests. I prefer the legitimate sightings to research further.
7) The drive requires the same amount of energy to keep airborne that the Earth is using to try to bring it down through gravity.
Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by orangegemstone
I have an issue with this:
7) The drive requires the same amount of energy to keep airborne that the Earth is using to try to bring it down through gravity.
The amount of energy the Earth uses to maintain its gravitational field is immense.
To just throw out a claim without qualifying how this is even possible requires some sort of explanation. Seriously, explain yourself and win a Nobel prize and a million bucks.
Otherwise just sit there and look like a fraud.
Originally posted by markymint
So what was the last big thing - the Norway Spiral? The US media not portraying UFO stories as a joke? I think I have still been visiting this forum for the 3 years since the Norway spiral...wait, 4 years? Christ...
What is your opinion on this? What has happened in the last two years that has been big? Personal sightings of any significance have slimmed out. Major stories have disappeared. We all know that as every year passes ghosts become less and less plausible... but aliens, UFOs? Why have they gone all quiet?
Did someone predict a quiet phase? Is there some speculation? I'd like to know. It's almost been too quiet. Your thoughts? Or is everything still massively go go go and interesting for you? I just...dunno :/ WTF has happened UFO phenomena :/ You've died
Originally posted by Kaone
reply to post by Kandinsky
Screw Greer!
Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by ZetaRediculian
Perhaps I was a little harsh. Apologies.
It just gets irritating when people speak like that without ever backing up their assertions. Strong possibility they are just making stuff up. What's the point in doing that?
Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by ZetaRediculian
Perhaps I was a little harsh. Apologies.
It just gets irritating when people speak like that without ever backing up their assertions. Strong possibility they are just making stuff up. What's the point in doing that?
Originally posted by orangegemstone
reply to post by JayinAR
I know, I hate that too. Sorry about coming off like that.
However, I meant the amount of energy the Earth uses on the object itself, not the sum total of all of the Earths gravity. LOL It's a no brainer, so I didn't have to say it, but if an object weighs x amount, then the Earth uses x amount of energy to bring the object to the ground. That same amount of energy is used by the device to overcome that force. It's the same for anything that overcomes gravity. If you throw a baseball, you have to put more force into it than the Earth is using on IT, in order to keep it from falling.
In other words, the heavier the object is that you are trying to levitate, the more energy the drive has to use. That's all. Very simple point.
Originally posted by orangegemstone
reply to post by orangegemstone
Final Post unless I get burned again.
Okay, here's a few more clues.
1) People on board a flying saucer do feel the effect of gravity.
2) When they turn at "right angles", inertia does not pose a problem for the people on board at all.
Originally posted by orangegemstone
reply to post by mbkennel
I'll answer both of your posts here. Firstly, the saucers do not go into orbit. They can however, use a quasi buoyancy to float to the top of the atmosphere if they want to. That saves lots of fuel for lifting payloads. You could feasibly lift a payload into space and then the payload being a sat, could fire up it's own thrusters to get to orbit speed.
It is less energy expense than a rocket, because a rocket is fighting the gravity in order to lift. The saucer is using it's energy in a different way than that. Once it's not "falling" to Earth anymore, it takes little energy to move about. But simply, yes it takes the same energy to "hover" that it would for a rocket to "hover". But not as much as a rocket to gain altitude.
It does not violate any of the currently accepted laws of physics. The "equivalence between inertial mass and gravitational mass" is exactly as you have been taught. It does not modify your mass in order to go faster or cancel inertia as some have theorized. I know you can't see how this is possible. But think about a magic trick you later found out how it's done. For a minute you were willing to accept the reality of the supernatural, but afterward you felt like a fool for not having seen it. That is exactly how this is.