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Something for your perusal.
OK, so I got a book on Area 51 for Christmas. Skeptical, I gave it a shot. So far, it's presenting a fascinating history of the base at Groom Lake, much of which has been its use by the military for testing the U-2, SR-71, and the F-117A.
Then, of course, comes the UFO part, specifically, Bob Lazar. I don't know how familiar you all are with this guy, but he claims to have worked for five months at a facility at Papoose Lake, 15 miles south of Groom. There, he alleges, he was part of a team reverse-engineering alien spacecraft engines.
I'm not calling the veracity of his claims into question, rather I am submitting Lazar's account of the alien spacecraft's propulsion mechanism. Here goes:
Lazar says the the spacecraft propelled themselves via energy generated by an element that does not occur naturally on earth, 115 on the periodic table. He asserts that one of the peculiar properties of 115 is that its strong nuclear force extends beyond the perimeter of the atom.
He says that that character of matter found in a given solar system reflects the conditions under which it was created. Since most systems in the Milky Was have more and/or larger stars than out ours, he asserts that the elements found in these systems are more massive than those found in Sol.
The way the propulsion actually worked was as follows: a chunk of element 115 is placed in a particle accelerator and hammered with protons. Some of element 115 becomes 116 for a few instants and then decays, in so doing releasing antimatter. This collides with matter in a nearby reactor. The resulting energy release is then converted to electricty with a thermoelectric generator. Then, taking advantage of the strong nuclear force properties of 115, the SNF is amplified by this energy, aimed at a distant location, and warps spacetime sufficiently that the ship is pulled to its location without any apparent passage of time.
Now, I was reading this, and the bullshit alarms were buzzing in my head, but I wanted to see what you guys thought. Is this at all possible, and I don't mean is in the same realm of possibility that a live monkey will jump out of my ass tomorrow morning.
Then, of course, comes the UFO part, specifically, Bob Lazar. I don't know how familiar you all are with this guy, but he claims to have worked for five months at a facility at Papoose Lake, 15 miles south of Groom. There, he alleges, he was part of a team reverse-engineering alien spacecraft engines.
I'm not calling the veracity of his claims into question, rather I am submitting Lazar's account of the alien spacecraft's propulsion mechanism. Here goes:
Lazar says the the spacecraft propelled themselves via energy generated by an element that does not occur naturally on earth, 115 on the periodic table. He asserts that one of the peculiar properties of 115 is that its strong nuclear force extends beyond the perimeter of the atom.
He says that that character of matter found in a given solar system reflects the conditions under which it was created. Since most systems in the Milky Was have more and/or larger stars than out ours, he asserts that the elements found in these systems are more massive than those found in Sol.
The way the propulsion actually worked was as follows: a chunk of element 115 is placed in a particle accelerator and hammered with protons. Some of element 115 becomes 116 for a few instants and then decays, in so doing releasing antimatter. This collides with matter in a nearby reactor. The resulting energy release is then converted to electricty with a thermoelectric generator. Then, taking advantage of the strong nuclear force properties of 115, the SNF is amplified by this energy, aimed at a distant location, and warps spacetime sufficiently that the ship is pulled to its location without any apparent passage of time.
Now, I was reading this, and the bullshit alarms were buzzing in my head, but I wanted to see what you guys thought. Is this at all possible, and I don't mean is in the same realm of possibility that a live monkey will jump out of my ass tomorrow morning.
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Re: Something for your perusal.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA What a dumb-ass.Alferd Packer wrote:Lazar says the the spacecraft propelled themselves via energy generated by an element that does not occur naturally on earth, 115 on the periodic table. He asserts that one of the peculiar properties of 115 is that its strong nuclear force extends beyond the perimeter of the atom.
The strong nuclear force is an extremely short-ranged but extremely powerful force. If it extended beyond the perimeter of the atom in any significant degree, nuclear fusion would be effortless, and virtually spontaneous.
Super-huge elements are correlated to star size? So, when Sol gets bigger in billions of years, the solar system is suddenly going to start sprouting impossibly huge-nuclei elements? What's this guy smoking?He says that that character of matter found in a given solar system reflects the conditions under which it was created. Since most systems in the Milky Was have more and/or larger stars than out ours, he asserts that the elements found in these systems are more massive than those found in Sol.
Actually, it would decay with alpha or beta particle radiation and some EM radiation. The notion of a nucleus spontaneously emitting a chunk of antimatter is beyond absurd.The way the propulsion actually worked was as follows: a chunk of element 115 is placed in a particle accelerator and hammered with protons. Some of element 115 becomes 116 for a few instants and then decays, in so doing releasing antimatter.
Wow, this guy is on some powerful drugs. Just when you think it can't get any worse, he tops himself. The strong nuclear force is "amplified" by electricity, aimed at a distant location, and used to warp spacetime? This fucking idiot has been watching way too much Star Trek.This collides with matter in a nearby reactor. The resulting energy release is then converted to electricty with a thermoelectric generator. Then, taking advantage of the strong nuclear force properties of 115, the SNF is amplified by this energy, aimed at a distant location, and warps spacetime sufficiently that the ship is pulled to its location without any apparent passage of time.
It is in precisely the same realm of possibility as live monkeys flying out of your ass tomorrow morning. UFOlogists prey on the stupid and irrational, and this assclown is no exception.Now, I was reading this, and the bullshit alarms were buzzing in my head, but I wanted to see what you guys thought. Is this at all possible, and I don't mean is in the same realm of possibility that a live monkey will jump out of my ass tomorrow morning.
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You look out the window. You see your neighbor'ss kitchen light go out. You think hard and come up with these theories:
(a) The light burnt
(b) Somebody turned the light out
(c) Aliens turned the light out
(d) Mark Hammell turned the light out
(e) Your neighbor turned the light out
Now using Occam's Razor, rate the theories as most to least likely.
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Now as a bonus rate the following regarding UFOs, Area 51, and Bob Lazar's claims:
(a) Bob Lazar is a liar
(b) Bob Lazar is an idiot
(c) Bob Lazar is mental
(d) An alien spacecraft is at Area 51 and Bob Lazar worked on it.
(a) The light burnt
(b) Somebody turned the light out
(c) Aliens turned the light out
(d) Mark Hammell turned the light out
(e) Your neighbor turned the light out
Now using Occam's Razor, rate the theories as most to least likely.
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Now as a bonus rate the following regarding UFOs, Area 51, and Bob Lazar's claims:
(a) Bob Lazar is a liar
(b) Bob Lazar is an idiot
(c) Bob Lazar is mental
(d) An alien spacecraft is at Area 51 and Bob Lazar worked on it.
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Also, wouldn't elements with really large atomic numbers be unstable, and unable to be found in nature? All of the really big elements on our periodic table were created in a lab, were extremely radiocatcive, and had extremely short half-lives, I believe.
That guy's surely a pseudoscientific bullshitter, preying on the gullible. When you know what that guy is saying is all bull, then that means you got a good science education.
That guy's surely a pseudoscientific bullshitter, preying on the gullible. When you know what that guy is saying is all bull, then that means you got a good science education.
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Good, my bullshit alarms didn't miss anything big. Yeah, the book went on to point out the holes, both scientific and chronological, in Lazar's tale. When asked about the description of the propulsion system, he usually says something to the effect of "O WELL DA PHYSIC OV DA ALEENS IS SUPAR ADVANCED WE R SO FAR BEHINDE DER TECKNOWLOGEE"
All in all, the book talks more of the government's ludicrous denial of the base's existence and all the strange things that that spawned than little gray men and all that bloobity blah blah.
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Among other things. He says he has degrees from Caltech and MIT, but both schools have no record of his attending. Still, he is reportedly very intelligent, somewhat famous before all the alien BS for building jet-powered cars.
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