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> and could easily evade basic radar technology from the early 1900s. Only if they needed to. Wasn’t there a story with the SR-71 that it could show up on some
by whywhywhywhy 5y ago
> and could easily evade basic radar technology from the early 1900s.
Only if they needed to. Wasn’t there a story with the SR-71 that it could show up on some radar and have missiles launched against it but the evasive move for that was to just accelerate because it was faster than the missiles.
- CyanLite4 5y agoSo are you suggesting E.T. has faster-than-light vehicles that can travel across the galaxy, breaking all known laws of physics in the process, and has intentionally avoided public contact, but still can’t dodge plain ol’ radio waves with radar? There’s gotta be an XKCD comic somewhere that has an alien engineer telling his managers that the FTL engines work fine but they should probably do more testing on the radio cloaking device...