It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: Kandinsky
nuts n bolts doesnt necessarily mean alien, extra terrestrial or extra dimensional. it just means physical hardware and machinery. hey could even be human endeavours. love the cases you mentioned in your post. more cases that can give us clues the better.
With that said, I don't see species traveling the universe, but there is one thing that old mother nature can not effect and that is machines. Self replicating machines have all the time in the universe and it is suggested that it would take about 2 billion years to explore the known universe we see today. What this means is a species that has long come and gone might have reached the point to sending out self replicating machines that tirelessly collect information and send it back to a race long gone.
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
nice post. chill out indeed.
here's the paper Teo is citing for those interested in reading.
lanl.arxiv.org...
I was going somewhere else with my post, but yours is very valid and pertinent to this thread and discussion. welcome to the thread! star from me! stick around and chat some more with us. we could use your firepower in this thread.
the anomalous signals are just three times above or even below the minimum rotation rate upper limit of the gyroscope used and hence remain doubtful.
No anomalous signals were found up to within 3 times the noise level of our gyroscope..
In addition, our accelerometers (mounted in tangential, radial and vertical direction) did not record any
anomalous result within a noise band of ±10μg.
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: Kandinsky
you're forgetting that we could be building them. you can dismiss that outright but at least consider it.
originally posted by: TheBadCabbie
My companion UFO nuts and bolts mind technology thread was closed! Nnnnoooooooooo!!! (shakes fist at an angry sky) Hopefully the mods will come around on that. I guess we'll see...
Thank you to everyone that has replied so far, I think we're starting it off well enough. Allow me to ante up.
How about UFO's as weather balloons? No really, I mean it. There has been discussion of a fairly obscure project of using balloons as a piggyback for space launches, very doable. There was a thread or two about it. I'll have to see if I can dig them up.
Along those same lines, I've always found merit in the hypothesis of black triangles as dirigibles or neutral buoyancy craft. I'm pretty sure some of those models are being buoyed upwards at least in part by simply making the craft lighter than air. A little math calculating the volume of a triangular shape and air densities at varying altitudes can yield some interesting results, if one knows what to do with those numbers.
A hot air balloon floats by being lighter than the air around it. This is because the heated air inside of the balloon's envelope is less dense than the air around and outside of the envelope. The pocket of rarefied air within the balloon's envelope 'floats upward to the relative surface' of the sea of air where the weight of the balloon's envelope and basket equals the weight of a volume of surrounding air equal to the volume of the balloon's envelope and basket. The 'sea of air' that is our atmosphere becomes less dense as altitude increases, hence air density decreases accordingly as one floats upwards in this sea of air. A submarine varies its depth in a very similar fashion, flooding or evacuating ballast tanks to equalize its density as a unit with the pressure level present at the surrounding desired depth.
There are a number of approaches to making this concept work, all of which I'm pretty sure have been thoroughly experimented with by those with the means and inclination to do so. This could be as simple as a heated envelope within or around a lightweight airframe, with a powered fan for forward flight. I can't help but wonder how a tiny turbine integrated into a design like this with ducted exhaust to augment lift and provide vectored thrust for forward flight and flight controls might help such a design function a little more nimbly than your average blimp though.
Other approaches to lighter than air flight include filling your envelope with a gas like helium instead of just regular heated air, or having evacuated chambers wherein you maintain a vacuum or near vacuum by simply pumping the air OUT of a sealed chamber, leaving it as empty as you can possibly make it with pumping and sealing. I seem to remember from old discussions that this vacuum approach is generally held to be one of the more difficult ones, from an engineering point of view.
There are quite likely other more exotic technical approaches to rarefying the atmosphere within your airframe that I'm missing(microwaves? dunno), but even without those this is definitely one of the technologies that is being exploited to fly some of these exotic craft. I don't think the black triangles are just one type of airframe. There are probably like fifty or more different types of exotic triangular shaped aircraft out there flying, at least a dozen different types, in my speculative opinion.
There's a nice little bit of brain candy for you then ATS. Hehe. Weather balloons. No really though! I'm serious!
originally posted by: stormcell
I remember reading the article on element 115. The idea was that some atomic nucleii aren't actually spherical but actually barbell shaped or even had two nucleii existing in the same space. However, actual research so far has only found spherical, rugby ball and pear shaped nucleii.
Irritated skin, rashes, tingling skin, metallic smells and tastes can come from ionising radiation like radar systems. They could also come from chemical exposure. There was some evidence that there were sulphur based compounds.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
Imagine a civilisation that left behind flesh and blood a few thousands of years ago? The span of its knowledge would be like a beach compared to our small grain of sand. It would manipulate/control energy in ways we probably haven't conceived of yet and make us obsolete in terms of a relationship with the speculative intelligence.
originally posted by: Bicent
a reply to: TheBadCabbie
from what I can gather from eye witness account, and the information i tried to gather after the event horizon of my life that changed my understanding and philosophy for the rest of my life, it's some kind of magnetic propulsion. Also interdimensional so where I think it gets really heavy is trying to understand the technology that is being used from another dimension, in my mind is a waste of time trying to understand, their understanding of lets call it their elements in existence, is different than ours you see(their biological make up movement functions and laws of existence) What I am getting at is the resources we have may limit us to even understanding it properly or at all. You see when you start taking this seriously UFO's etc. when you meet someone who truly has seen aliens or whatever you want to call them, they are scared and have some kind of trauma(Because what we know as normal they are not), maybe even a lil crazy etc. Indeed a true dichotomy with the crazy side but its a side effect..
Its very traumatizing anyhow.. I hope I helped with your constructive thread. I don't think we are capable of understanding their tech, I have tried to talk about this before on ats and for the majority of people on the internet had a hard time differentiating star trak type of aliens and the reality..
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: Erno86
your talk of plasma surrounding a ship could seque into another interesting thing to consider.
if your vehicle was surrounded by a shell of plasma. and your vehicle came equipped with a phased radio antenna array. it could induce that plasma to spin and with that net motion of the charged particles in the plasma create a powerful electric current and via that a very powerful macro sized magnetic field. This Plasma Magnet would be a useful way to make very large radius magnetic fields.
the real question is why you'd want to do that.
but think of UFO sightings. odd radio signal bursts. electrical interferance. glowing seemingly plasma like spheres.
makes one think.