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The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents'

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Re: The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents'

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Post by x__x »

mmcconnell1618 wrote: post #4
orionblastar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn't there some airplane crashes that had engineers on the flight that worked for Freescale or some other company in the superconductor market? Funny how those stories just faded away with few questions about how the airliner crashed. I am not trying to make a conspiracy theory, but they should have taken separate flights. edit: Typo and clarification

Snopes doesn’t indicate this is likely to be true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mh370-patent-disappearance...

Where's the Snopes like site Snoping Snopes?

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Post by Accujack »

I like the part where he talks about Quintessence as if it's a valid scientific concept... not in terms of a hypothetical form of dark energy, but in the original sense that it's the "quinta essentia" or "fifth element", IE Aether.

His emails read like a word salad mix of high energy science and medieval alchemy... very similar to a lot of the "free energy" crackpots on youtube.

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Post by smhinsey »

I would love to be wrong because this tech is very interesting, but I feel like I have developed a pretty good bullshit detector in my time online and quotes such as "VES being the Fifth State of Matter (Fifth Essence - Quintessence)" stick out to me as being discrediting.

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Post by ggm »

willis936 wrote: post #9
ggm wrote: post #8

The problem I have in this, is that history is littered with things which without hindsight were crazy-batshit-ideas, and in a world of IPR and patents, definitely do get flagged as wierd. But.. then turn out to be useful. Liquid metal refrigerators using electromagnetics to send the fluid around instead of just pumping ammonia? Thats .. crazy. But also, What Szilard and Einstein patented: safer by far, no moving par…

In all of those cases the inventions sounded crazy And no one had really tried it before. A lot of smart people have been working on plasma physics with the goal of controlled fusion for 70 years. HTS research has been ongoing for nearly as long. Suddenly one guy who speaks like a crackpot has discovered things no one else has thought of? Occam’s Razor.

Totally agree with this bit. The alarm bells about these ones are pretty huge.

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Post by cbanek »

I'd really love some world changing breakthrough technology now. I really would. But I don't really understand this stuff (not that I'm qualified). I guess you can actually patent a perpetual motion machine, so the fact that it is a patent, doesn't seem to require that it be real.

I can't help but think back to the 80's SDI "Star Wars" programs. We said that we could do a lot of things that we couldn't, and that made the Russians crazy.

Now I'm not prone to conspiracy theories, but could it be possible this is a misinformation campaign?

It's interesting the "new IEEE paper" referenced in the paper only has the one author and no coauthors. I wonder who (if anyone) peer reviewed this paper? Also in the views, interestingly it's only had 40 views (not sure if this is paper views, or not, it says PDF and HTML views). Sadly I don't have access to read it!

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8871349

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Post by georgeburdell »

snowwrestler wrote: post #5

I continue to believe this is today’s equivalent of “red mercury”: crazy pseudoscience given the imprimatur of the U.S. military to distract and confuse adversaries.

You give the military too much credit. I have acquaintances in military research and they're more self-sure than they are intelligent. And they love military jargon.

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Post by guerrilla »

mNovak wrote: post #16

Trying to think if the DoD has any good reasons to encourage conspiracy theorists? Besides the obvious US has mystic weapons angle.

because some of them are conspiracy theorists? It would seem improbable that Michael Flynn is alone in that.

In any case, I think this is most likely due to incompetence. Whether a few of this guy's bosses are conspiracy theorists or not, they obviously aren't qualified to evaluate his work and see that he's a crackpot. It wouldn't be the first time, with things like MkUltra and that telepathy crap.

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Post by bra4you »

smhinsey wrote: post #13

I would love to be wrong because this tech is very interesting, but I feel like I have developed a pretty good bullshit detector in my time online and quotes such as "VES being the Fifth State of Matter (Fifth Essence - Quintessence)" stick out to me as being discrediting.

Honestly, I have lost track of state of matters. How many are there? 3? s,l,g? Plasma? Bode Einstein Condensate? I vaguely remember at least three more.
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