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jlf1961 -> RE: Now I have heard everything (5/23/2011 10:14:49 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ladyneedshelp
I think the possibility of life beyond our planer is great. If there is a way to do warp speed someone will eventually figure it out......and maybe someone on a far more advanced world has?!!!? Not something we will know untill we are actually visited or discover it ourselves.......
Would the govt. Waste time and money reserching such an outrageous idea? Yes ..... who else would come up with such a stupid idea as going up inballoons??? Remember "project blue book"? The military actually had teams going out and checking out people who reported siteings? There is no end to the stupidity of the govt!
Okay, for one thing, according to the laws of physics, for an object to move at just the speed of light, it would need infinite energy due to the relativistic mass it acquires by moving that fast. The object would have an infinite mass. Thus, according to the laws of physics, you can only achieve a percentage of light speed.
Now the Alcubierre drive, also known as the Alcubierre metric, is a speculative mathematical model of a spacetime exhibiting features reminiscent of the fictional "warp drive" from Star Trek, which can travel "faster than light", although not in a local sense.
In 1994, the Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a method of stretching space in a wave which would in theory cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand.[1] The ship would ride this wave inside a region known as a warp bubble of flat space. Since the ship is not moving within this bubble, but carried along as the region itself moves, conventional relativistic effects such as time dilation do not apply in the way they would in the case of a ship moving at high velocity through flat spacetime relative to other objects. Also, this method of travel does not actually involve moving faster than light in a local sense, since a light beam within the bubble would still always move faster than the ship; it is only "faster than light" in the sense that, thanks to the contraction of the space in front of it, the ship could reach its destination faster than a light beam restricted to travelling outside the warp bubble. Thus, the Alcubierre drive does not contradict the conventional claim that relativity forbids a slower-than-light object to accelerate to faster-than-light speeds. However, there are no known methods to create such a warp bubble in a region that does not already contain one, or to leave the bubble once inside it, so the Alcubierre drive remains a hypothetical concept at this time. Alcubierre drive
What makes this theory possible is string theory.
As for Operation Blue Book, 22% of cases studied were classified as "Unknown."
While this is a significant number, there was no evidence in these cases to indicate that the "unknowns" were of extraterrestrial origin, although by the same token, there was no evidence they were not, hence the category of "Unknown."
None of the cases investigated were considered a threat to national security.
I must also point out that UFO sightings are still investigated by the air force, but there is this little tidbit:
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An Air Force memorandum (released via the Freedom of Information Act) dated October 20, 1969 and signed by Brigadier General C.H. Bolander states that even after Blue Book was dissolved, that "reports of UFOs" would still "continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedure designed for this purpose." Furthermore, wrote Bolander, "Reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security … are not part of the Blue Book system." USAF current official statement on UFOs
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