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Alternatively, if you had access to an immense and unassailable technological advantage over everyone, wouldn't you want to leverage that? Wouldn't it be nice t
by jjk166 3y ago
Alternatively, if you had access to an immense and unassailable technological advantage over everyone, wouldn't you want to leverage that? Wouldn't it be nice to tell our enemies "we don't care how many nukes you have, we can do whatever we want with impunity or else we'll use our alien tech to protect ourselves and destroy our enemies" or to tell our allies "stick with us we're gonna be rolling out a stream of inventions that will each dramatically increase our prosperity for decades to come"? You only keep your strength hidden if it could potentially be negated - i.e. that they could develop the same technology or an effective counter without having access to alien spacecraft.
- dsfsder3423 3y agoYou're right mostly, there are also some special cases where it makes sense to hide the UFOs (or any radically new, advanced tech), some examples: - the alien tech isn't really and/or fully available, they are half way in the reverse engineering efforts, and maybe other powers are in the race too - the alien tech intrinsically reveals some currently hidden aspect of the universe/reality, if you present the technology publicly, it will be obvious that there's something new, and everybody will pursuit advances related to these new physics. i.e. imagine discovering the eletricity in the XV century, it would have changed everything.