gamer wrote:What makes you think I think this happened? I'm just asking do you know for certain? As it may actually be possible, I put it in the same category as the alleged alien sightings that people report it may actually be possible one of those sightings were real aliens.
The supposed Philadelphia Experiment violates the laws of physics, has
no reliable eyewitness accounts, and actively contradicts the eyewitness reports of the men who served on that ship. The only way to give the story even a veneer of plausibility is to use conspiracy-theory tactics- every individual piece of evidence it didn't happen can and must be dismissed, because it's all part of the coverup, don't you see?
That's such a common and obvious fallacy that it should barely even need to be explained to educated adults.
I mean... what if I told you I'd just flown to the moon in a chariot drawn by flying unicorns and had tea with the Empress of the Sea of Tranquility, would you classify
that as "might actually be true," too?
Meanwhile, as a story, the Philadelphia Experiment might be an early example of teleportation in SF-
except it must have first been told after World War Two. And I don't think people would mind if you'd just said "the story of the Philadelphia Experiment is a case of teleportation in SF." It's when you start trying to imply that it
actually happened that people start thinking you're making a fool of yourself.
