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Originally posted by Xenoglossy
If there are people who are reverse engineering alien spacecraft, why don't we have a clue about how their method of propulsion works?
All the people who used to work for the military and government (or so they claim) and who are breaking the silence, are just telling us science fiction stories. How about some facts?
How about somebody telling us how the alien tech actually works? There are bound to be people who are working on this stuff, so why is it never them who go public? Why is it always someone who doesn't have a clue about the inner workings of the technology?
My take on it? Everybody can make up a fake military career and tell some stories about crashed UFOs.
But NOBODY on this planet can actually explain how the aliens actually managed to get here and how their propulsion works.
How do we induce such a thing if indeed inducing such a thing is even remotely (for us anyhow) possible? *scratches head*
Originally posted by The GUT
Originally posted by mbkennel
Somehow this warp drive can propel this topological bubble in geodesics through space and then when you get there you de-energize your warp drive and connect yourself back to regular space-time. That reconnection might be the tricky part of the trip, needless to say....
"Somehow,"...that's nice MBK. "Somehow" is an excellent answer for "anything." "Somehow" I don't feel your 'answer' is particularly revealing or even coherent.
Nice try, though!
Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by mbkennel
Also, if warp drive required some exotic matter and engine, then maybe galactic ET civilizations could fly FTL, but they couldn't send signals FTL.
Why not? If we could send matter FTL, surely we could send data FTL as well....
You could go out and find that one of your colonies was obliterated by the Romulans (or nobody you could figure out) a few radioactive months previously.
So, it would be inconvenient (communications having to be sent via a ship)...still wouldn't keep us from exploring. Didn't prevent our ancestors from doing it.edit on 3-7-2013 by Gazrok because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by WilliamOckham
Originally posted by mbkennel
Somehow this warp drive can propel this topological bubble in geodesics through space and then when you get there you de-energize your warp drive and connect yourself back to regular space-time. That reconnection might be the tricky part of the trip, needless to say.
And what would the source for the energy needed to create an ongoing bubble through space-time be? Surely you've thought about the issues with the ship ALSO being inside this theoretical bubble? I've heard that theory countless times and it is riddled with problems.edit on 2-7-2013 by WilliamOckham because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by CagliostroTheGreat
Even then, there is the other problem of converting the ship into energy to traverse said wormhole (hence the "bubble" idea mentioned so often).
Many accounts of how the aliens interface with their ship seems to indicate that the aliens are bio-engineered to do so. Like their body becomes linked to the circuitry of the ship. If this is the case, then not so hard to see why little progress. We'd likewise have to bio-engineer a pilot, which may or may not be possible with a human (or find a work-around).
Originally posted by Gazrok
reply to post by Xenoglossy
If there are people who are reverse engineering alien spacecraft, why don't we have a clue about how their method of propulsion works?
Imagine a caveman trying to reverse engineer a found and broken television and get it to play a TV program.
May take a while....
Originally posted by Aazadan
I think it's more like, send a stealth bomber back in time, crash it, then show it to cavemen. Let them try and reverse engineer it. A TV is very simple in comparison. There's so many laws of physics, manufacturing processes, computer development, even the task of learning the language to read whatever documentation one may be able to salvage. That's the type of gap between us and the Greys, the gap may be even bigger than that.
Originally posted by pinobot
reply to post by The GUT
Maybe they can fly at an almost infinite speed by compensating for or somehow remove the effect of the Higgs boson particle.Once you have no mass you can fly into anything without damage, you just come to a stop. It would also be a means to get anti-gravity.
Originally posted by libertytoall
Deuterium Nuclear reactor with a magneto hydro dynamic drive system. Case closed..
The Nuclear reactor heats up the gases freeing the electrons where they acquire an electric charge thus creating a plasma. Have you ever wondered why people say the air seemed electrically charged after a UFO encounter? Or why they are bright white balls of light? The appearance is caused by the electrons being freed through the heating process. The pulse visually observed is due to the electrical (emf) field. The negative charges tend to move in one direction, and the positive charges in the opposite direction. The reason UFO abductees lose time, generally two hours, is because they become so close to the strong magnetic field it essentially warps time and space around them. It's really not that complicated.. Give me 200 million dollars and I'll have one built by next summer. You're only going to get about half the speed of light unless you can get me some anti matter though.edit on 3-7-2013 by libertytoall because: (no reason given)