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Assuming it's some kind of a man-made aircraft, is there any aerodynamic advantage to the saucer shape?
by ph0rque 18y ago
Assuming it's some kind of a man-made aircraft, is there any aerodynamic advantage to the saucer shape?
- noonespecial 18y agoIf you're a government conducting covert surveillance, and you use a plane or helicopter, and you are seen, the jig is up. If your craft is ufo shaped, no one will believe the witnesses.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoThe phrase "stealth blimps" keeps getting kicked around from time to time. But then nothing ever comes of it. We're overdue for whatever the next generation recon platform is.
- hugh 18y agoI dunno what the next generation recon platform is, but I doubt it flies at night while lit up like a goddamn Christmas tree. (Of course, aliens probably wouldn't do that either: they'd be a lot more subtle or a lot less subtle.)
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoI can see a bunch of generals in a room now "That's the last thing they'll expect! A giant flying Christmas Tree!" Yes. IF (and it's a big IF) aliens are visiting us, they are probably so far beyond us we'd have no more inkling of them than an ant has of a person.