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I want to know how they apparently have advanced tech that allows them to travel the vast distances of space, and if certain people are to be believed, have cra

• Kye 3y ago
  It might be that the feats we see are at the leading edge of their technology and that's why they crash. They might be reaching out to say hello at great risk to themselves. Earth is full of humans who would take the same kind of risk in the other direction.
  • LandR 3y ago
    Surely though, if you can take travel near light speed you need a detection and maneuverability system so advanced, because any impact is game over, that pottering around at non relativistic speeds should be an absolute doddle.
    • solardev 3y ago
      Maybe they just send a few trillion and hope a few make it
    • Kye 3y ago
      Have you ever seen those videos of someone getting their first fast car and immediately planting it in a building? Things that are made to handle well going very fast don't necessarily do well going very slow. It could be they normally depend on some guidance infrastructure for intra-stellar travel where they normally operate that isn't present here.
    • notaustinpowers 3y ago
      We have no idea how they could be traveling through space. They could be using something like the alcubierre drive which wouldn't be affecting by dust or microscopic things in space puncturing the craft, they'd just get warped around the craft with the rest of space. Plus, space is so vast and lightspeed is so slow, I can't imagine plotting a trajectory to avoid stars/planets would be at all difficult for a society so advanced.
• AltruisticGapHN 3y ago
  No technology is 100% foolproof ; especially in a completely foreign environment ; and they don´t "crash all the time". According to Grusch I think they have recovered "in the double digits" which is less than a hundred. From the history of ufology we know about maybe 10-20 crashes which have lots of corroboration, thatś really not many. edit: another pt to consider, if any of this turns out to be true - this is really insane, because most of us think "aliens" like one species.... but according to the many abductions and encounters in the past hundred years we may very well have been visited by TENS of different species... which may also explain the crashes, like it's not just one species/propulsion tech that is repeating their errors. Many different craft shapes too, point towards different tech, different points of failure.
  • LandR 3y ago
    20 crashes, At out current level of airline safety, how many flights would we need to fly to get to 20 crashes. We must be close to around 1 crash a year? So 20 years... In 1 year we have around 20 million flights... 400 million flights to get to 20 crashes. I'm gonna assume advanced aliens are at least an order of magnitude better. There isn't a billion of these things in the sky.. So yeah, there safety level for such an advanced thing seems a bit shit. I just don't believe they would crash this often to even have 10-20 crafts. The whole premise seems absurd.
    • nomel 3y ago
      > I'm gonna assume advanced aliens are at least an order of magnitude better. I'm sure they are, at air travel. I think it would be reasonable to assume that some very complicated physics would be required, many orders of magnitude more complicated than air travel, which was first done with leg power, using some spare bicycle parts and various dead plants.
• BiteCode_dev 3y ago
  You are assuming that they care about crashing. Maybe they see them as we see erlang processes.
• starik36 3y ago
  Hmmm, I don't know if that is a convincing argument. We have super advanced monitoring tools for web servers with armies of admins, yet websites go down all the time.
• srgpqt 3y ago
  They follow the “fail fast, crash early” design philosophy.