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Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by nomel »

maxharris wrote: post #78
nomel wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know about the legalities of this, so my question is, why?

I'm a taxpayer. If they've produced technology that can revolutionize our lives, they have a responsibility to tell us about it. (We paid for it, after all!) And if they're hoaxing, they have no right to spend taxpayer money on hoaxes, or to file false patents. (And there's no active war going on that would give them the legal right to make stuff up to confuse an enemy state.)

Can a psyops campaign not be used as a deterrent? Does it require an active war to be legal?

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by monocasa »

BEEdwards wrote: post #49
starpilot wrote: post #34

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We need some crazy tech billionaire to fund development for a POC of one of these patents.

That none have should tell you something...

It's incredibly rare to accumulate a billion dollars without an army of people in front of it to keep you from spending it on stupid things.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by starpilot »

monocasa wrote: post #92
BEEdwards wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That none have should tell you something...

It's incredibly rare to accumulate a billion dollars without an army of people in front of it to keep you from spending it on stupid things.

"Stupid things" billioniares are currently funding:

- Immortality

- Transhumanism

- Flying cars

- Fusion (arguably, considering its track record)

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by Chrisomally »

Have a look on line at the Nazi Bell, which supposedly was the unsuccessful product of reverse engineering of alien technology. The operation principal is the same. The US may have obtained the bell at the close of WWII. This device is so advanced that it seems impossible to have come from current human technology.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

Chrisomally wrote: post #94

Have a look on line at the Nazi Bell, which supposedly was the unsuccessful product of reverse engineering of alien technology. The operation principal is the same. The US may have obtained the bell at the close of WWII. This device is so advanced that it seems impossible to have come from current human technology.

Have a bit more critical look at the Nazi Bell. It is probably a hoax.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by Can_Not »

RandallBrown wrote: post #39
conjectures wrote: post #18

Love the idea that if an opposing power developed force fields + compact fusion reactors, that the last line of defence would be patent law.

There's a book called Year Zero, by Rob Reid about our first contact with aliens. It turns out that humans are the only species in the universe capable of creating good music and as soon as other races detected our radio waves, they started listening to and reproducing our music. Eventually, the radio waves with our licensing information reach them and every alien race realizes they've been committing copyright infri…

The only realistic scenario I can think of for "aliens can't make good music" is that they're so lame they value the importance of out-of-jurisdiction copyright laws.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by tanseydavid »

starpilot wrote: post #80
clSTophEjUdRanu wrote: post #74

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I'd be very interested to see what sort of jamming was used. What shape were those pulses? Incredibly interesting that whatever it was would know to jam radar.

Yeah. To me this is the biggest indicator that it is of terrestrial origin.

If the craft actually creates a 'vacuum' at the quantum level it seems superficially reasonable to think that it might jam conventional radar as an effect of how it 'deals with energy' rather than an intentional jamming system.

But I must admit I know very little about these things.

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by arthurcolle »

not_real_acct wrote: post #44
arthurcolle wrote: post #31

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What secret space programs?

> What secret space programs? Personally, I believe that the "UFO" seen by the Navy pilot Commander David Fravor was a Navy craft. I don't think it was extraterrestrial in origin. Hence, "secret space programs."

That wasn't really in space, but ok. Do you think he knows what was going on during the sighting? Or do you think he is reporting the truth to the best of his capability?

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by arthurcolle »

larzang wrote: post #72
arthurcolle wrote: post #31

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What secret space programs?

The X-37 is the best example of one widely known to exist, without yet knowing all the details of its purpose and missions. It's pretty unlikely to be the only such program.

Do you know of any other examples?

Re: Scientist Behind Navy's “UFO Patents” Filed One for a Compact Fusion Reactor

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Post by arthurcolle »

rasz wrote: post #43
arthurcolle wrote: post #31

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What secret space programs?

Moon base we took from Nazis.

Really interesting theory! If your descendents 50,000 years from now could read this comment, do you think it would reflect positively on your persona?
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