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If we have anti-gravity technology and they are holding back on it, then I'll be pissed, personally. It would be the most transformative technology since the li

If we have anti-gravity technology and they are holding back on it, then I'll be pissed, personally. It would be the most transformative technology since the light bulb or the combustion engine, and slow walking it just to hold a military edge over your opponents is ridiculous.

collias 6y ago
I agree, and I'd be upset as well. But it sounds more plausible than having advanced spacecraft crash in our backyard, so to speak.
joshuaheard 6y ago
According to Bob Lazar (Google him), we recovered a crashed UFO that uses anti-gravity technology, but we can't figure it out. The theory is one reason they are releasing it is so that they want to see if we can at least make some scientific progress on it.
nomel 6y ago
> most transformative technology since the light bulb Assuming it doesn't require huge energies like 1MW/lb. If it did, it would be incredible for space travel, but fairly useless and incredibly inefficient for anyones every day life.
- anoniuyiu33412 6y ago
  Maybe they are working out technical problems like that. I remember having read some stories about the Manhattan Project, how there were countless of hard practical problems to solve before to get the bomb blowing up in the dessert. Now what it seems like a fast technological jump sprint in the 40s, was actually the lifework for dozen of persons, scientists, engineers, even some layperson giving inspiration to someone trying to solve an equation. I think they had a working bomb design almost from the beginning, but they didn't have a functional practical technique to (fastly) enrich the uranium (S-50 project and the other two). I think these years feel "fast" for many people (young specially), but the research of radical change technology remains hard as it was always. If you want a "public" example of how hard is, take a look at the CERN work.
  - nomel 6y ago
    > Maybe they are working out technical problems like that. Yes, but sometimes "technical problems" are "physical laws".
anoniuyiu33412 6y ago
I think there are several historic precedents of advanced technology having a huge impact in sustaining or further advancing nation-states policies. Think about Spanish and Portuguese caravels, english longbows, etc. If your country somehow discovers something akin to electricity, probably fastly reproducible by other nations, you will probably want some extra time developing technology over the discovery, just to have maybe, 10-30 years edge over the rest. The more, the better. This is not any news, US has done it already with the stealth technology (and they still have and edge on it, even if they're not making it public), nuclear technology (most of it are still closely guarded secrets, think hydrogen bombs), even most of the optical technologies related to satellites are highly guarded secrets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret

collias 6y ago

I agree, and I'd be upset as well. But it sounds more plausible than having advanced spacecraft crash in our backyard, so to speak.

joshuaheard 6y ago

According to Bob Lazar (Google him), we recovered a crashed UFO that uses anti-gravity technology, but we can't figure it out. The theory is one reason they are releasing it is so that they want to see if we can at least make some scientific progress on it.

nomel 6y ago

> most transformative technology since the light bulb Assuming it doesn't require huge energies like 1MW/lb. If it did, it would be incredible for space travel, but fairly useless and incredibly inefficient for anyones every day life.

anoniuyiu33412 6y ago
Maybe they are working out technical problems like that. I remember having read some stories about the Manhattan Project, how there were countless of hard practical problems to solve before to get the bomb blowing up in the dessert. Now what it seems like a fast technological jump sprint in the 40s, was actually the lifework for dozen of persons, scientists, engineers, even some layperson giving inspiration to someone trying to solve an equation. I think they had a working bomb design almost from the beginning, but they didn't have a functional practical technique to (fastly) enrich the uranium (S-50 project and the other two). I think these years feel "fast" for many people (young specially), but the research of radical change technology remains hard as it was always. If you want a "public" example of how hard is, take a look at the CERN work.
- nomel 6y ago
  > Maybe they are working out technical problems like that. Yes, but sometimes "technical problems" are "physical laws".

anoniuyiu33412 6y ago

I think there are several historic precedents of advanced technology having a huge impact in sustaining or further advancing nation-states policies. Think about Spanish and Portuguese caravels, english longbows, etc. If your country somehow discovers something akin to electricity, probably fastly reproducible by other nations, you will probably want some extra time developing technology over the discovery, just to have maybe, 10-30 years edge over the rest. The more, the better. This is not any news, US has done it already with the stealth technology (and they still have and edge on it, even if they're not making it public), nuclear technology (most of it are still closely guarded secrets, think hydrogen bombs), even most of the optical technologies related to satellites are highly guarded secrets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_secret