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originally posted by: Guiltyguitarist
a reply to: Arbitrageur
Thank you. Yes it has been stated to me many times that gravity is a wave but it is not a wave and does not move in waves and is not in wave or particle form? I have stated many times that I have no education in physics. I am fascinated by it but don’t have the time or money to educate myself on the topic. I will watch the video you posted and maybe some of my ignorance will become knowledge.
But I have a sneaking suspicion if you guys understood what you were talking about you could explain it plainly.
originally posted by: Shamrock6
a reply to: Guiltyguitarist
Einstein said gravity had waves. I don’t think bob beat ol’ Albert to anything, much less by 40 years. Science has been working from his theory ever since.
He was in the phone book as a contractor for a company that did electronics repair.
For 20 years of research, there seems to be some gaps in your studies.
It's hard to say. One theory is that Bob was trying to impress John Lear with some bullplop story. While I know of no way to confirm that, I do think this interview lends some credibility to that hypothesis. Bob Lazar was teasing John Lear about his gullibility. John describes Bob Lazar as a UFO skeptic back in 1988:
originally posted by: mirageman
!) Why did Bob tell this story in the first place?
Eric Davis: “As if Lazar’s verifiably false claims deserve a public stage. It was impossible for Lazar to do Ph.D. level work at LANL because he only had a high school education with a C average grade, thus he had no education or training to be a scientist. He did not take high school physics. His job was radiation health monitor which did not require security clearances so he did not get access to Area-51 since his workstation was at the off-site logistics support facility which is unclassified. He’s also a convicted felon in the state of Nevada.
“In civil society having been charged with and convicted of a felony crime in a court of law by one’s peers directly impugns one’s credibility, truthfulness, and obedience to the law. These three items go to the heart of why some people fail to earn security clearances. Lazar never had security clearances to begin with because his EG&G job at the unclassified, physically disconnected Area-51 logistics support facility didn’t require security clearances.”
If you had a goose that was laying golden eggs, would you kill it? Or let it keep laying golden eggs? If Knapp exposed the truth about Lazar it would be like killing the goose, the "golden eggs" being a very popular story that has given Knapp some high ratings.
2) Why would Knapp indirectly support it by not investigating it thoroughly?
Good points, I tend to agree. Gravity proposed by Newton was so accurate we still use his model to send probes to Mars, so it works very well and is very simple. However, his model isn't accurate enough for more demanding applications and calculations like GPS where slight errors in time can result in GPS locations on the ground being way off. So to have a more advanced understanding of gravity requires relativity, and it's not simple like Newton's model. You can read "relativity for dummies" but that will only give you the understanding of a dummy. Einstein wrote a book designed to explain relativity as simply as possible to high school graduates capable of passing a university entrance exam, and he cautions that even though he only uses high school level math in his explanations, it still takes some patience:
originally posted by: muzj03
How can you possibly judge what people can explain plainly, if you don't understand the subject...?
Have you attempted to understand basic physics, rather than just use uneducated logic to try and put things together ?
Being polite - I'll give you a suggestion - read these two books as a primer and you'll get yourself to a basic university level of understanding. Until you get to that point, trying to point out what others can and can't explain "plainly" is nonsensical.
www.amazon.com...
www.amazon.com...
The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader. The author has spared himself no pains in his endeavour to present the main ideas in the simplest and most intelligible form, and on the whole, in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated.
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: penroc3
If the United States Government really had possession of a spaceship from Zeta Reticuli, as Bob claims here, (a star system with no known exo-planets and a sun very similar to own. Then what are the chances that heavy elements such as moscovium could be manufactured or exist naturally with a stable isotope? How would this then be used as a fuel to power FTL space travel?
Mehh! It doesn't matter. These type of questions are distractions to keep us from seeking answers to the more important ones.
!) Why did Bob tell this story in the first place?
2) Why would Knapp indirectly support it by not investigating it thoroughly?
Knapp is one of the few journalists given access to Bigelow and Elizondo back in the early days. Yet lost his ability to ask piercing questions in their presence. He was even recruited by Delonge to pass on the TTSA propaganda as revealed by Wikileaks. He's never left Vegas either. The city where many of the UFO myths are manufactured by the same old ageing spooks of the US MIC.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
I don't see Bob as lying about any of this. Did he understand everything he saw there and read.? Did he get anything a bit wrong, and was speculating? Very likely, like anyone could.
Are you saying you think Jacques Vallee and/or Bigelow are lying about Lazar's element 115? Lazar already brought his "element 115" to Bigelow's lab when he was hired by Bigelow, there's no need to dig anything up.
originally posted by: 111DPKING111
I agree, I dont mind the little inconsistencies, the problem here is there are at least 2 ways this story could have been verified(the supposed 22 scientist he knows the names of or the element Knapp refuses to dig up).
So, are you saying that you think Jacques Vallee or Bob Bigelow are lying? I don't see how you can believe all three. There are documents to support Vallee's claim about the Zeta Reticuli (2) Corporation where Bigelow hired Lazar (apparently as his chief scientist or something), so that much is not in doubt. But exactly why Bigelow ended the partnership so quickly has only been explained in one source I found, Vallee's book linked above. If Vallee was lying, Bigelow and or Lazar could sue him for that, so personally, I doubt Vallee is lying.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
I don't see Bob as lying about any of this.
I searched the Nevada business portal for a business containing the word "reticuli" and got a single result. This is what Jacque Vallee said the name of the company was.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
Well in a simple Fictitious Business Name search for Clark County Nevada from as far back as the 1800’s ... Zeta Reticuli 2 does not show up as being granted or any form of those words.
The registration for the "Zeta Reticuli 2" corporation is a public record at the Nevada Department of State, which registers corporations. Both Lazar and Bigelow are listed as officers.
originally posted by: mirageman
Why does no one pressure Knapp to prove it and dig it up with a live TV crew one day? It would be the find of the century wouldn't it?
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
I searched the Nevada business portal for a business containing the word "reticuli" and got a single result. This is what Jacque Vallee said the name of the company was.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
Well in a simple Fictitious Business Name search for Clark County Nevada from as far back as the 1800’s ... Zeta Reticuli 2 does not show up as being granted or any form of those words.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
Before there was the internet, there were paper records. We are talking about something that happened maybe 3 decades ago, when documents would have been on paper, not on the internet.
You would probably need to go to some records office to find the old paper documents on file, is my guess.
Gene Huff, as you said was a real estate appraiser, and then Bob's friend and business partner. I don't think there's a lot of mystery there. Gene seems to think Bob is telling the truth, except for the Lazar's education which even he and George Knapp seem to realize is a lie. Maybe he's not very perceptive, because he doesn't seem to realize that without the education, Lazar was not going to get the physicist job he claimed to have.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
Before there was the internet, there were paper records. We are talking about something that happened maybe 3 decades ago, when documents would have been on paper, not on the internet.
You would probably need to go to some records office to find the old paper documents on file, is my guess.
My previous posting to mention Gene Huss was more of my focus to mention, not so much about the Reticuli paper/internet trail....
Well moving forward....
When I read your boring, inaccurate rhetoric I’m torn between respecting you and spitting on you. No matter how badly you guys hope the Lazar movie deal has been squelched because of your efforts, it is THE most prized possession of New Line Cinema, which by the way was just passed on to Time-Warner in the sale of Turner.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Gene Huff, as you said was a real estate appraiser, and then Bob's friend and business partner. I don't think there's a lot of mystery there. Gene seems to think Bob is telling the truth. Maybe he's not very perceptive.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
Before there was the internet, there were paper records. We are talking about something that happened maybe 3 decades ago, when documents would have been on paper, not on the internet.
You would probably need to go to some records office to find the old paper documents on file, is my guess.
My previous posting to mention Gene Huss was more of my focus to mention, not so much about the Reticuli paper/internet trail....
Well moving forward....
When he responded to Tom Mahood's debunking of Lazar, he made a big deal about how valuable the movie rights were, and about how Mahood's debunking wasn't going to stop the movie, but the movie never got made...
From: Gene Huff
To: Tom Mahood
Subject: Your usual BS
When I read your boring, inaccurate rhetoric I’m torn between respecting you and spitting on you. No matter how badly you guys hope the Lazar movie deal has been squelched because of your efforts, it is THE most prized possession of New Line Cinema, which by the way was just passed on to Time-Warner in the sale of Turner.
The way Gene Huff talks about the movie possibility, it sounds like he was involved in that too. I wasn't surprised to see him on the Zeta Reticuli documents, like you apparently were.
I don't see Bob as lying about any of this.
I have seen a flying saucer myself, up close and scary. IT moved like it had those kinds of abilities in physics not fully discerned by today's science. I personally know they exist. They have a propulsion method that is like what Bob describes.
We are talking about people who also reject the idea of soul and spirit being real.
I think you read the reviews by his employees at Bigelow aerospace. One of them said something to the effect that Bigelow ordered an engineer to break the laws of physics, then fired him for not doing it. If that's even close to being accurate, I don't think Bigelow is the brightest technical bulb.
originally posted by: mirageman
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
I know Bigelow's public image is one of an eccentric businessman but I can't believe he'd be that ignorant or stupid to enter into such an agreement with one Bob Lazar. Unless of course it had another motive to it all.