Can't take off my tin foil hat....

[Buka]

Alien technology obviously gave us the Thermos. Put hot soup in it, it stays hot. Put cold beer in it, it says cold.

I mean, how do it know?

 

[pdg]

Alien technology obviously gave us the Thermos. Put hot soup in it, it stays hot. Put cold beer in it, it says cold.

I mean, how do it know?

I need to read the instructions for mine again I think, or I broke it.

It said hot things stay hot and cold things stay cold - so I took some nice chicken and bacon soup and an ice-cream for after...

 

[AngryHobbit]

I like the way Carl Sagan put it. "If it's just us - it's an awful waste of space".

Meanwhile, in Russia - the better approach is to acknowledge something exists and then tell everyone not to worry about it.
Russian Gov't Says Not to Worry About These 54 Severed Human Hands Found in Siberia

 

[jobo]

How do you know?

Define alien tech?

I'm typing this very sentence on a handheld communicator...

There are star trek doors in supermarkets.

Just because the boffins haven't figured out the warp drives and tachyon amplifiers yet (and they're too big to sneak out).

Historical technological advancement was pretty stable for centuries, until about halfway through last century when it started to really take off.

One explanation is obviously that tech led to tech, the other explanation:

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it REALLY started to take off with the wright brothers,

it gained a good deal of impetus, from about 1800, which more or less matches them stopping burning witches and the fall of the church power to stop science. They started the century with water wheels and ended it with the internal combustion engine, that was some going, considering they had to sort steam out in-between.

the internal combustion engine was what the wright brothers were sat in their bicycle shop waiting for, it then took another 50 years and two world wars to develop flight to space.

compared with that lot, not that much has happened since. .

 

[Gerry Seymour]

it REALLY started to take off with the wright brothers,

it gained a good deal of impetus, from about 1800, which more or less matches them stopping burning witches and the fall of the church power to stop science. They started the century with water wheels and ended it with the internal combustion engine, that was some going, considering they had to sort steam out in-between.

the internal combustion engine was what the wright brothers were sat in their bicycle shop waiting for, it then took another 50 years and two world wars to develop flight to space.

compared with that lot, not that much has happened since. .

Much of which also rests upon the shoulders of the invention of the printing press, which made sharing information much easier and made more information durable. Analogous to the impact of the Internet (and later the Web) on information sharing today.

 

[jobo]

Much of which also rests upon the shoulders of the invention of the printing press, which made sharing information much easier and made more information durable. Analogous to the impact of the Internet (and later the Web) on information sharing today.

and,,, like the internet, the rapid rise of the printing press was driven by a mass market for pornography and political unrest.

 

[TMA17]

 

[JR 137]

Alien technology obviously gave us the Thermos. Put hot soup in it, it stays hot. Put cold beer in it, it says cold.

I mean, how do it know?

And you don’t even have to plug it in. It’s mind boggling.

 

[JR 137]

and,,, like the internet, the rapid rise of the printing press was driven by a mass market for pornography and political unrest.

Allegedly, DVD was saved from losing the format war with VHS because of porno. I read somewhere that DVD was almost scrapped due to its very slow initial sales. Once the porn industry switched to DVD, DVD became an overnight success.

 

[Anarax]

UFO(Unidentified Flying Object) doesn't automatically mean aliens. It's simply a flying object that hasn't be identified. For the sake of argument let's say that they're experimental military craft. If so, not every member of the military would be privy to such information. We already possess amazing aircraft technology, F-22s, Stealth Bombers, DEWs, etc. Is what the Navy Pilot described really that far from our technological capability?

 

[JR 137]

So we ring some aliens, reverse engineer their technology, and all we get are iPhones, Bluetooth, and Thermos? Ok, other than Thermos, that’s the best we could come up with? How about something that actually makes a big difference in my life, like teleportation? Or airplanes that race against flashlights? Call me crazy, but finding aliens should easily end my Griswold family road trip vacations. Why can’t I get to Wally World in seconds rather than days?

Those aliens are pretty dumb. What did they do, take a Zeppelin here from across the galaxy?

 

[TMA17]

UFO(Unidentified Flying Object) doesn't automatically mean aliens. It's simply a flying object that hasn't be identified. For the sake of argument let's say that they're experimental military craft. If so, not every member of the military would be privy to such information. We already possess amazing aircraft technology, F-22s, Stealth Bombers, DEWs, etc. Is what the Navy Pilot described really that far from our technological capability?

Very good question.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

UFO(Unidentified Flying Object) doesn't automatically mean aliens. It's simply a flying object that hasn't be identified. For the sake of argument let's say that they're experimental military craft. If so, not every member of the military would be privy to such information. We already possess amazing aircraft technology, F-22s, Stealth Bombers, DEWs, etc. Is what the Navy Pilot described really that far from our technological capability?

Imagine a drone. Light weight allows for quick direction change, fast acceleration. Now take that experimental, and it’s a plausible explanation.

 

[pdg]

So we ring some aliens, reverse engineer their technology, and all we get are iPhones, Bluetooth, and Thermos? Ok, other than Thermos, that’s the best we could come up with? How about something that actually makes a big difference in my life, like teleportation? Or airplanes that race against flashlights? Call me crazy, but finding aliens should easily end my Griswold family road trip vacations. Why can’t I get to Wally World in seconds rather than days?

Those aliens are pretty dumb. What did they do, take a Zeppelin here from across the galaxy?

They knew there was a chance they wouldn't make it back, so it's silly to send a flagship exploration vehicle packed with all the latest tech.

Send a trabant.

 

[Martial D]

UFO(Unidentified Flying Object) doesn't automatically mean aliens. It's simply a flying object that hasn't be identified. For the sake of argument let's say that they're experimental military craft. If so, not every member of the military would be privy to such information. We already possess amazing aircraft technology, F-22s, Stealth Bombers, DEWs, etc. Is what the Navy Pilot described really that far from our technological capability?

Yes. Yes it is. No lift source, no propulsion source,, physics defying maneuverability and an acceleration rate that would turn pilots into pattee are a few things that are certainly well beyond what we can do now.

 

[TMA17]

It’s common sense to assume a large majority of UFO’s are top secret military technology. However some of what has been observed by our own military has defied our understanding of physics. Things that are far more advanced than what Elon Musk and Bigelow are working on and far more advanced than any foreign military has within their arsenal.

I find the extreme skeptics almost as ridiculous as the militant believers.

I had a guy once deny up and down these possibilities, along with climate change and other things....he then goes to church and believes Noah somehow put a cheetah and every species within the animal kingdom on his Ark. Unreal LMAO

People are going to believe what they want to believe.

 

[TMA17]

....at the end of the day though a UFO is simply an unidentified flying object.

 

[AngryHobbit]

So we ring some aliens, reverse engineer their technology, and all we get are iPhones, Bluetooth, and Thermos? Ok, other than Thermos, that’s the best we could come up with? How about something that actually makes a big difference in my life, like teleportation? Or airplanes that race against flashlights? Call me crazy, but finding aliens should easily end my Griswold family road trip vacations. Why can’t I get to Wally World in seconds rather than days?

Those aliens are pretty dumb. What did they do, take a Zeppelin here from across the galaxy?

As an alien, I resent this remark! Of course... I'm an alien from the Soviet Union - not from another galaxy but that's beside the point...

That aside, I'd like to point out Blade Runner takes place in 2019. WHERE are my flying cars?! WHERE are the replicants?!

 

[pdg]

That aside, I'd like to point out Blade Runner takes place in 2019. WHERE are my flying cars?! WHERE are the replicants?!

Still got a year to sort those out.

I've been waiting almost 3 years for my back to the future hoverboard and self drying clothes...

 

[JR 137]

As an alien, I resent this remark! Of course... I'm an alien from the Soviet Union - not from another galaxy but that's beside the point...

That aside, I'd like to point out Blade Runner takes place in 2019. WHERE are my flying cars?! WHERE are the replicants?!

Back to the Future 2 took place in 2015. No flying cars yet. No hover boards either. At least Blade Runner still has a year.