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originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Here is what Bob Lazar said, no mention of any isotopes.
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
a reply to: Arbitrageur
He was referring to the stable isotope from what I remember him saying. And it is indeed true that those isotopes can't be synthesized. And so far have not been.
ROBER LAZAR KLAS TRANSCRIPT
That's what he said, which any real physicist will tell you is a pretty good demonstration that Bob Lazar is not a physicist, since it contradicts what physicists know about how elements are made in nature, and in labs or accelerators.
The element, called 115, can be stored in lead casings much like this one [showing a lead circular container]. Lazar says the government has 500 pounds of it, and it cannot be made on earth.
Lazar: "It would be almost impossible; well, it is impossible to synthesize an element that heavy here on Earth."
Interviewer: "At least right now."
Lazar: "I don't think that you can ever synthesize it. The amount of....you essentially have to assemble it by bombarding it with protons if....atom by atom, it would take an infinite amount of power and an infinite amount of time. The substance has to come from a place where super-heavy elements could have been produced naturally.
And of course real physicists proved Bob wrong by making element 115 on Earth. You guys are making up this isotope stuff, he never said it.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
What I quoted is not "my belief", it's a transcript of what Bob actually said.
The interviewer gave Bob plenty of opportunity to talk about isotopes or other details after Bob said it was impossible, by saying
Interviewer: "At least right now."
That's where Bob could have talked about isotopes and said, well maybe someday they can make certain isotopes but not others or whatever fantasy you're making up, but he didn't say that. So you're the one with beliefs, Bob's interview transcript is a fact, not a belief, and it shows Bob's "prediction" was wrong.
It also shows Bob understands next to nothing about the models physicists have about the production of elements, again that's not a belief, you can ask any physicist, except Bob who is not a physicist.
It also shows Bob understands next to nothing about the models physicists have about the production of elements
-Bob Lazar
The amount of....you essentially have to assemble it by bombarding it with protons if....atom by atom
To make moscovium, the scientists in Russia and the United States bombarded atoms of americium with ions of calcium in a cyclotron. This produced four atoms of moscovium.
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: mirageman
Looks like he really did change his story and Knapp and Corbell are grifters. Shame on them all.
If you actually watch that whole Bob Lazar video instead of watching this chopped up edited version you would see the part where Bob Lazar states that this is how he THINKS the crafts work. This youtube channel is a joke.
originally posted by: DrumsRfun
a reply to: Blue Shift
I am a George Knapp guy, who was the guy who broke the story.
Bob Lazar has a pretty legit story in my opinion.
Things aren't really a secret anymore.
Jim Marrs and George Knapp get a big thumbs up from me and I wish there was more of those guys around.
I'll take either one of those guys over the New York Times any day of the week.
...My career has been one of engineering and science. I spent most of working life with the County of Orange in California where I was both a Civil Engineer and Traffic Engineer...
...I also did a short stint doing serious science work for Caltech after getting a Masters degree in Physics. That was at their LIGO facility (Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) in southeast Washington State. Somewhat ironically, considering my background, my Masters degree focused on experimental investigations involving the possibilities of an exotic form of gravitational propulsion...
But Lazar sounds and talks like a physicist! That’s what I thought at one time too. But I came to discover that he talks and sounds like what the general public (and Lazar himself) thinks a physicist sounds like. In reality, they are quite different and can easily be quite obtuse. I have discussed Lazar with a few real physicists (who hadn’t heard the story), and they usually just start laughing. But then what do they know…they’re just real physicists with real Phds.
Is he telling the truth about anything? I do think he worked at Los Alamos, but not necessarily in the capacity he’s claimed. I believe he worked for one of the lab’s subcontractors, in a limited capacity, for a limited amount of time. Also, not as a physicist, but a technician. So maybe there is a kernel of truth in his story, but it’s a pretty small kernel, and certainly not reason enough to believe his later saucer stories.
In the world of scientific research the harshest insult that can be leveled against someone’s work is that the person “is not even wrong”. In other words, the research or theory is so bad it really can’t even be discussed coherently. If I were feeling charitable, and I’m not, I suppose Lazar’s story may just barely reach the “not even wrong” level.
So let me be completely clear: The Wednesday night glowing orbs seen in the skies over Groom Lake by Lazar et al were NOT “craft”, they were plasmas generated by operation of a high powered proton accelerator dumping its beam into the atmosphere. And…..Lazar knew this.
So that’s what really went down, more or less. No saucers, just a really neat proton accelerator and a guy spinning a crazy story to stay out of jail.
Many people claimed that Lazar had inside info about Element 115 before it was actually synthesized. Well, no. Lazar’s main claim about Element 115 was that it was stable, which amazed folks. But here’s the thing….that concept is really old news. I have a 1969 article from Scientific American with a cool 3D graph showing an “island of stability” around 114. This was also repeated in my undergrad physics textbook. But maybe most interesting is an article (“Creating Superheavy Elements” by Armbruster and Munzenberg) published in Scientific American again talking about a potential island of stability around 114. The article’s date? May 1989, the same month Lazar began his interviews with KLAS TV in Las Vegas. Yeah, probably just a coincidence.
To wrap this up, I’d like to leave you with a quote, reportedly straight from the mouth of Lazar, related to me by someone who once knew him:
“The more incredible the lie, the more people will believe it.“
Thus speaketh the Bob. On this one point, I guess I gotta agree with him.
Apparently I know a lot more than you do about both Bob Lazar, and about his distorted view of physics that shows he doesn't know physics. Bob Lazar doesn't know what he's talking about, neither do you, maybe that's why you believe him. But I'll attempt to deny your ignorance since that used to be the site motto here though the gap in your knowledge is so huge it may be fruitless.
originally posted by: Lucidparadox
Again, I really dont want to sound condescending to you but do you actually know anything about Bob Lazar?
That is complete nonsense, physicists are very particular people who worry a great deal about things like isotopes, there's nothing "inherent" about it.
-We have NOT created actual tangible 115 here on earth. We have created an isotope that lasts for less than a second, but not 115 that you can pick up and hold, which is what bob was referring to. He didnt mention isotope, because Bob is a physicist... its inherent.
It doesn't take a physicist to run United Nuclear, your really grasping at straws here.
-By your comment "real physicists" you are insinuating that Bob Lazar is not a real physicist. That is literally insane. Your talking about a man who owns and operates his own company called United Nuclear Scientific Equipment and Supplies, he creates and sells chemicals, radioactive isotopes, and lab equipment for test labs across the country.
That was impressive but it demonstrates he's a clever guy, not that he knows physics. The claims he made about that car already show Bob's inclination to tell bull# though, the car would have been impressive if he told the truth about it, but that's apparently not Bob's style.
Not only that he built a car with a rocket engine in the 80s
The claim he worked as a physicist at Los Alamos is insane. There's no way a real physicist would think Bob Lazar was a physicist if they talked physics with him in an interview for 5 minutes. His name in the directory had K/M next to it showing he was an employee of Kirk-Mayer, meaning he was not a physicist employee of Los Alamos.
he also worked as a physicist at Los Alomos... youre claiming that guy isnt a real physicist?
Yes I saw his particle accelerator, but I was doing experiments on a small particle accelerator in my high school physics class and I could have built one then without being a physicist. A simple particle accelerator is not that hard to build, there are articles in magazines on how to build a homemade particle accelerator.
Wanna know something else about Bob Lazar that makes your exact statement about him even more wild? He built his own personal particle accelerator in the 90s
No it's fact. Here's a real physicist explaining the the Bob Lazar story. Bob had K/M next to his name in the directory at Los Alamos meaning he was an employee of Kirk Mayer, not a physicist employed by Los Alamos.
Insinuating he doesnt know what hes talking about is a wild claim.
He was there often enough to get listed in the LANL phone directory, with the denotation “K/M” next to his name, indicating his affiliation with Kirk-Mayer. Although the following ad is from the Albuquerque Journal in January, 1989, a few years after Lazar had left Los Alamos, it probably closely describes Lazar’s position at the time.
So, Lazar is already completely bull#ting us about jet engines, and we haven't even got to real physics yet. The particle accelerator? He covers that too.
Another measure of Lazar’s veracity is when he states it’s the most efficient jet engine available, using 1.3 pounds of propane for each pound of thrust it produces compared to 6 pounds of fuel for each pound of thrust with a regular jet engine. This is utter bull#.
The values Lazar was tossing around are known as Thrust Specific Fuel Consumption (TSFC). From data on page 8 of the linked Gluhareff PDF it appears a G8-130 engine has a TSFC value of 1.33, so he hasn’t left reality there. However when you look up TSFC values for regular jet engines you find they are typically WELL below 1.0 pounds of fuel for each pound of thrust, and lower numbers are better. Hell, the Concorde burned 1.195 pounds of fuel for each pound of thrust at Mach 2, so even that fuel hog was better than a Gluhareff jet. In fact, Gluhareff jets are notoriously inefficient but were considered to have potential in some situations due to their unique construction/operation.
Oh, and if you’re impressed that someone has their very own particle accelerator, well…you shouldn’t. Way back in the early 1960s Scientific American published an article on how to make a “homemade atom smasher”, AKA, particle accelerator. As a kid I lusted after that project, but its crux was the need to build a mercury diffusion pump (!!) to achieve the hard vacuum needed in the beam tube. Beyond the need for a hard vacuum (with pumps now available on eBay) the rest is trivial. But, you know, why? Unless you want to impress others and make plasma balls.
I’ve never understood why Lazar clings to these imaginary Masters degrees when they have been so thoroughly proven to be lies.
First and foremost, I need to touch on the basic science in Lazar’s tale. In the world of scientific research the harshest insult that can be leveled against someone’s work is that the person “is not even wrong”. In other words, the research or theory is so bad it really can’t even be discussed coherently. If I were feeling charitable, and I’m not, I suppose Lazar’s story may just barely reach the “not even wrong” level.
Now as someone with a real Masters in Physics (with a focus on gravitation, no less!) I could go on for many pages pissing all over Lazar’s nonsensical tale. But it would have to become very technical and the hardcore Lazar believers would not be swayed, so why should I bother?
But this quicky should be easy for anyone to understand…..Recall that Lazar surfaced with his tale well before gravitational wave observatories, such as LIGO, VIRGO, GEO 600 and TAMA, had even been designed, much less made operational. If Lazar’s saucers did indeed operate like he claimed, grabbing distant portions of spacetime and pulling it toward them, they would generate enough gravitational waves to knock the observatories’ interferometer mirrors off their damn mounts. OK, maybe a slight exaggeration, but any near-Earth operations of the saucers described by Lazar would result in huge gravitational wave signals. Wait…..Unless the observatories are part of the coverup!!! Um….nope.
After reading an account by Bob Lazar of the “physics” of his Area 51 UFO propulsion system, my conclusion is this: Mr. Lazar presents a scenario which, if it is correct, violates a whole handful of currently accepted physical theories. That in and of itself does not necessarily mean that his scenario is impossible. But the presentation of the scenario by Lazar is troubling from a scientific standpoint. Mr. Lazar on many occasions demonstrates an obvious lack of understanding of current physical theories. On no occasion does he acknowledge that his scenario violates physical laws as we understand them, and on no occasion does he offer up any hints of new theories which would make his mechanism possible. Mr. Lazar has a propensity for re-defining scientific terms, and using scientific language in a confusing and careless way. For these reasons, I don’t feel that Lazar’s pseudo-scientific ramblings are really worthy of any kind of serious consideration.
Don't hold your breath mirageman, Lazar supporters are making up almost as much BS as Bob Lazar, by claiming Bob didn't say the things in that video as if he knew how the saucer worked.
originally posted by: mirageman
Well here is that video in full.
Please provide the timestamps where he says he THINKS this is how the craft works.....
originally posted by: NightVision
a reply to: Blue Shift
I would hardly call him a prophet. You seem to love giving him free press though. Which, as a skeptic, seems strange. But I digress.
Acknowledging the lack of Lazar's Educational Credentials, one must ask/answer the following questions:
1) How did Lazar know the term 'S-4' before it became publicly acknowledged by the DNI/Navy/Air Force?
2) If he's just a high school grad, why would Los Alamos hire him? They don't just hire amateur scientists tinkering in their garage. It's been proven he worked there.
3) How did he know the test flight schedule? (Also confirmed by witnesses/ and 51 workers)
4) How did he know the hallway layout of parts of the facility? George Knapp has independantly confirmed this with other 51 workers who where there at that time.
4) How did he know the hallway layout of parts of the facility? George Knapp has independantly confirmed this with other 51 workers who where there at that time.
The following isn’t a complete list, but covers most that occur repeatedly (I’m assuming you already have familiarity with the details of Lazar’s story else it’s unlikely you’d be reading this) :
• Lazar worked at Los Alamos, showed George Knapp around there and people seemed to know him. His name was in the phone book in 1982.
• The Los Alamos newspaper story on Lazar and his jet car called him a physicist with the lab.
• In Las Vegas, security personnel, observed by others, visited Lazar at his home.
• Lazar was noted by friends and family to “disappear” as part of a job.
• He was able to correctly describe certain aspects of the facilities at Groom Lake.
• He identified a location known as S-4 in the Nellis Range.
• Lazar was able to correctly name specific people involved in the security process.
• Edward Teller appeared to react visibly and uncomfortably when asked about Lazar in an interview.
• He received a W-2 form from the government.
• After Lazar’s story broke, some media members observed possible government surveillance and intimidation efforts.
• Also after Lazar went public, persons around Lazar observed what appeared to be a vigorous and threatening government attempt to silence him.
• Lazar “knew” about Element 115 long before it was ever synthesized.
• And finally the absolute best, Lazar knew about the Wednesday night tests, and showed others.
The posters bring up some damn good points. How IS one to explain all these without there being a hidden saucer facility at Papoose Lake? Well, it turns out there is a very good reason all these things probably did, in fact, happen, and why Lazar still holds to his nonsensical story.
Tsk Tsk...
originally posted by: NightVision
a reply to: Arbitrageur
Another aspect worth noting is the interview w Edward Teller where when asked if he knew or ever worked with Bob, he said something to the effect of 'If you ask me that question, I will terminate this interview...' Why didn't just he say 'No'?
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Yeah, that's right. Through a combination of poor reading comprehension, bad reporting, and apparently a deep longing by many people for aliens to help them escape their mundane, corporate controlled, pandemic limited lives, it's been determined that the recent NYT article completely proves Lazar was right all along about everything and should be heralded as a vindicated prophet of the UFO world.
That's the world we live in now.
originally posted by: ConfusedBrit
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Yeah, that's right. Through a combination of poor reading comprehension, bad reporting, and apparently a deep longing by many people for aliens to help them escape their mundane, corporate controlled, pandemic limited lives, it's been determined that the recent NYT article completely proves Lazar was right all along about everything and should be heralded as a vindicated prophet of the UFO world.
That's the world we live in now.
The world we live in now, even without this deluded crap, was already a basket case as 2020 crawls and splutters towards a VERY dark place.
originally posted by: ConfusedBrit
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Yeah, that's right. Through a combination of poor reading comprehension, bad reporting, and apparently a deep longing by many people for aliens to help them escape their mundane, corporate controlled, pandemic limited lives, it's been determined that the recent NYT article completely proves Lazar was right all along about everything and should be heralded as a vindicated prophet of the UFO world.
That's the world we live in now.
Does that mean we can eventually crucify the silly sod? Fantastic!
The world we live in now, even without this deluded crap, was already a basket case as 2020 crawls and splutters towards a VERY dark place.