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Listen, if you would spend even a mediocre amount of time researching the already existing, public technologies that you can find on Wikipedia alone, you would

Listen, if you would spend even a mediocre amount of time researching the already existing, public technologies that you can find on Wikipedia alone, you would not be wondering if these are alien vehicles. They might be, but if so, they came here to learn from us. We have the good stuff. Google WEAV craft for fun. Enjoy!

hammyhavoc 3y ago
WEAV Wiki: "An early prototype of the WEAV was able to sustain hovering flight a few millimeters above the ground for approximately 3 minutes." Yeah, I'm not convinced, chief. Especially when considering how far back flying saucers have been sighted prior to this whelming research.
- ImJamal 3y ago
  The Wikipedia page doesn't have a date for that, but it says this was invented in 2006. If that is when it occurred, do you think it couldn't have improved in 20 years? Regardless, this was likely a random person who created it, not a government with billions of dollars available. Also, this isn't really new concept. Look at this [1] craft from the 50s. If a government was able to do as well as they did back then, I have no reason to think they couldn't do better now. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
  - hammyhavoc 3y ago
    The laws of physics aren't constrained by billions of dollars.
marcusverus 3y ago
> They might be, but if so, they came here to learn from us. It's hard to imagine aliens travelling across interstellar space to observe our early-stage civ with a serious expectation of learning from our tech. If you went back to ancient Cartage, or Athens, or Babylon, you might expect to learn a lot of things from them. But would you expect to learn from their tech? Mind you, those ancient earth civs are merely single-digit-thousands of years behind ours. Given that the universe is billions of years old, it seems unlikely that any visitors would hail from civs which are close enough to us on the "tech tree" to to consider our tech worth serious interest. They could easily be a billion years farther up the tree!

hammyhavoc 3y ago

WEAV Wiki: "An early prototype of the WEAV was able to sustain hovering flight a few millimeters above the ground for approximately 3 minutes." Yeah, I'm not convinced, chief. Especially when considering how far back flying saucers have been sighted prior to this whelming research.

ImJamal 3y ago
The Wikipedia page doesn't have a date for that, but it says this was invented in 2006. If that is when it occurred, do you think it couldn't have improved in 20 years? Regardless, this was likely a random person who created it, not a government with billions of dollars available. Also, this isn't really new concept. Look at this [1] craft from the 50s. If a government was able to do as well as they did back then, I have no reason to think they couldn't do better now. [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
- hammyhavoc 3y ago
  The laws of physics aren't constrained by billions of dollars.

marcusverus 3y ago

> They might be, but if so, they came here to learn from us. It's hard to imagine aliens travelling across interstellar space to observe our early-stage civ with a serious expectation of learning from our tech. If you went back to ancient Cartage, or Athens, or Babylon, you might expect to learn a lot of things from them. But would you expect to learn from their tech? Mind you, those ancient earth civs are merely single-digit-thousands of years behind ours. Given that the universe is billions of years old, it seems unlikely that any visitors would hail from civs which are close enough to us on the "tech tree" to to consider our tech worth serious interest. They could easily be a billion years farther up the tree!