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Originally posted by The Savage Khan
Playing devil's advocate here. I think the reason people believe the reverse engineering theory is because of the timing of Roswell. These people dismiss the written proof that exists such as patents and journals, because they believe it is part of a conspiracy cover-up. You must admit the timing of some of these innovations is suspicious.
Transistor
"The transistor was successfully demonstrated on December 23, 1947 at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey"
Laser
"In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and made the first demonstration of stimulated emission."
Originally posted by Hawkwind.
The explosion in technology over the last 100 years is a journey that is traceable to the smallest degree and there is NO reason to believe these creations are anything but man-made.
Can anyone provide compelling evidence that suggests otherwise? Something more than opinion?
Originally posted by DoomsdayRex
All you have done is quote the title of the paper.
Originally posted by zorgon
Obfuscate all you like... but how likely do you think it would be for them to come out and state they built one?
Originally posted by Exuberant1
Unfortunate.
Being unable to locate any such statement; you are now reducing yourself to arguing semantics and interpreting words to have meanings other than what they actually are...