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DARPA being careless
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The report they compiled from whatever it is they saw in DC is consistent with everything else I have heard and read about these things.
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The aliens that created the technology to at travel lightspeed may have been existed thousands or tens of thousands or even millions of years ago and may no longer exist. That tech may have been found by a different alien species and they're using it as they see fit. I also don't believe that just because an alien civilization figured out how to travel at lightspeed that they wouldn't need resources to exist. It's been less than a hundred years since humans broke the Speed of Sound, yet our requirements for sustenance are the same as they were in 1947. If in the next 100 years, humans were to discover a power source which could be used to power starships , which I think is more likely than not to occur, our basic needs would again, stay the same. If that becomes reality, what's to stop humans from taking over worlds inhabited by lessor life forms? |
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Even traveling at that speed, it would take millions of years to get anywhere in space. It’s not practical. If they’re traveling that far, they’ve figured something else out. Once they get to that point, the need for “materials” has likely already been figured out where they don’t need to mine it or whatever. Hell, even if they did there’s asteroids out thetr that have more than 100milliom earths combined |
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This would be much more convincing if the craft were 50+ feet long, at an altitude of over 30,000 ft., and could perform any of these maneuvers without its rotors or any visible control surfaces/propulsion. For 8+ continuous hours.
But the fact remains that no such aircraft exists in the U.S. inventory. In fact, the simple rotation without a loss of altitude performed by the vessel in the IR gun camera footage from one of the F/A-18Ds is literally impossible at that altitude and speed without exhibiting some aspect change and/or thrust increase. The laws of aerodynamics are quite specific about that. Never mind that there's no visible movement of any control surfaces to initiate the rotation, or the fact that there's no visible means of propulsion, which there should be in that IR footage. That light whitish haze around the vehicle indicates something around the vehicle that's cooler than the surrounding air, which would've been something like -20F to -40F at that altitude. Everything humans use to create thrust produces heat, so we should be seeing at least a dark gray or even black haze, not white.
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