Part 1 : Rock Magnets | Part 2: Conspiracy | Part 3: Reverse Engineering

Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:03:17 on Wed Feb 23
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DoD people are just paranoid.
its part of the job requirement.

Mark!


Authentic hacker Instance aliens Message at 12:03:40 on Wed Feb 23
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allright, I'm capturing this, but it's gonna be all messed up.
if he says anything good, I'll clean it up; otherwise, I delete it.

Anthrax Ripple


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:03:48 on Wed Feb 23
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you don't think if you were given a crashed saucer, given enough time you
can reverse engineer the saucer and eventually build a similar one?
I think it is very possible
and they were definitely given enough time, almost 50 years already

Blue Devil


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:04:07 on Wed Feb 23
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yeh, but that is overly paranoid

Blue Devil


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:04:28 on Wed Feb 23
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depends on:
1) how alien the technology is
2) how much was destroyed in the crash

Yibb-Tstll


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:04:40 on Wed Feb 23
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If you gave a crashed 1993 jet to a team of 1943 engineers,
they couldn't do anything with it. "Uh, it's got lots of
little black chips controlling things... What's this
thing labelled MHD?"

Zarf

Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:04:43 on Wed Feb 23
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If Australian aborigines found a crashed B-2 bomber, could they reverse
engineer it and build a similar one in 50 years?

Viscoelastic Wonderland


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:04:52 on Wed Feb 23
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If there was more than just one crash, they have a better chance, don't they

Blue Devil


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:05:07 on Wed Feb 23
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i.e. - if the alien craft was controlled by genetically engineered
things and controlled by thought waves, explain how we reverse engineer
that.

cankers and medallions


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:05:09 on Wed Feb 23
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tell me if your were to take a decstation drop it off of wean
then give it to thomas eddison do you think he could reproduce it?

Mark!

Authentic hacker Instance aliens Message at 12:05:19 on Wed Feb 23
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Okay...I'm gonna try to strip the discussion during my class...

The Yeester Bunny


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:05:20 on Wed Feb 23
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that is not a good analogy, we have at least some basic technology and
physics knowledge that can help

Blue Devil


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:05:33 on Wed Feb 23
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but that implies that the aliens use the same technology we do.

Floyd the Droid


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:05:37 on Wed Feb 23
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so would he.

Mark!


Authentic hacker Instance gratuitous dumbfuck yelling Message at 12:06:06 on Wed Feb 23
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aw2s!!!

the punisher +

Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:06:20 on Wed Feb 23
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Alien technology could be so far ahead of ours that we wouldn't recognize
it as such.

Let alone be able to "reverse-engineer" it in a couple o'decades.

Viscoelastic Wonderland


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:06:22 on Wed Feb 23
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no, I don't imply that, I imply that our level of technology is close enough
to be able to learn the next step in quantum physics or string theory, whatever
to get to the alien technology, less of a gap than for edison to figure out a
dec

Blue Devil


Authentic hacker Instance aw2s Message at 12:06:34 on Wed Feb 23
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Aliens are in our midst.

Once More Unto The Breach Dear Friends


Authentic MESSAGE Instance discuss Message at 12:06:50 on Wed Feb 23
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But what if they're ten steps away from us, and we only can take one at a
time (per century or so)?

Viscoelastic Wonderland