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Originally Posted by eburacum45
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eburacum45 wrote:
Haisch and Puthoff are desperately trying to find a way of reducing inertia, with the aim perhaps of inventing a reactionless drive;
I wish them luck, but doubt they will be successful.
I'm curious, what do you mean by "desperately?"
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Reactionless drives are fringe ideas; these people have been writing papers on related topics for years, with no results. In this paper they consider the situation that might occur if one or another of the blind alleys they have been exploring turns out to enable interstellar travel of some sort; they then extend this thinking to suggest that the bizzare apparent behaviour of unidentified aerial phenomena is 'ethical' and a prparation for eventual overt contact.
Well, many of the people who experienced the great UFO flaps of the 1950's are not prepared for contact, but instead they are nearly all dead now. There would be nothing rational or ethical about persuing such a 'leaky embargo' strategy for decade after decade;
and of couse nothing of the sort has been happening.
Despite the opinions expressed in this paper, all UFO reports are in fact the result of misidentifcation of natural phenomena or man made phenomena, hoaxes or hallucinations.
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I disagree.
We ourselves are already ETs.
Are you suggesting that either we are the first and only species to have accomplished this, or are you saying that no further breakthroughs in propulsion will occur, at least none that might be supported by Haisch's "fringe ideas," to make interstellar travel more feasible?
Actually, IMHO, it is those very fringe ideas that often bring about discovery. What comes to mind is a recent remark I made about how often what was once Science Fiction is now Science Fact.