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- AmyVernon, on 06/04/2009, -5/+26Great. Now I can build my own UFO.
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -2/+20Next week:
How ghosts communicate with one another. - wwwspirit, on 06/04/2009, -8/+24Actually, this story doesn't tell you anything about how to build a UFO. You'd know that if you read it. It's really just a synopsis of several famous UFO stories. It would be interesting if more accurate information was provided but the writer seems determined to avoid saying anything that might give the impression that these stories are just a bunch of bull.
For instance, he describes the Betty and Barney Hill case, where the story is obtained under hypnosis and he conveniently forgets to mention that hypnosis has been determined to be a primary agent of False Memory Syndrome rather than a way to obtain accurate information from the subconscious. Furthermore, even when he reports a piece of information that could be negative, he tries to soften it with passive-aggressive phrasing, such as:
"Skeptics CLAIM the aliens with wraparound eyes that Barney described aired on an episode of "Outer Limits" just 12 days before the hypnosis session in which he described them."
NO, skeptics do not "CLAIM" this, as if it were just someone's opinion!! This information can be verified by anyone reading this. Check Wikipedia for episode air dates and the Betty and Barney Hill story for the dates of the hypnosis sessions. Skeptics have CORRECTLY OBSERVED that the information given under hypnosis reflects an Outer Limits story line that aired 12 days before the hypnosis session.
The author of this story intentional obfuscates this. - ba5e, on 06/05/2009, -2/+14Isn't this phrase "How UFOs Work" an oxymoron?
- EchoMike, on 06/05/2009, -0/+9Buried because it doesn't actually tell you how they work. Also, multiple pages.
- danielkempkens, on 06/05/2009, -0/+8If you know how it works, than how can it be an Unidentified Flying Object?
- protogenxl, on 06/05/2009, -0/+7The primary levitation device is a cat with slice of buttered toast strapped to it's back.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20 ... - beabis, on 06/05/2009, -2/+9You would believe something on CNN?
- davidv00, on 06/05/2009, -3/+10Do they have "How God Works"?
- entrophize, on 06/05/2009, -0/+5Color me disappointed.
Article is titled 'How UFO's Work' yet there is absolutely no mention of...well...how UFO's work. - Schrum, on 06/05/2009, -0/+5I can't believe that they even included this picture: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/ufo-9.jpg.
It was a mexican animator who made it for fun, he even admitted it on a tv-show.
But whatever, most of these pictures are fake - if not all. - squelched, on 06/05/2009, -0/+4I was thinking the same thing.
- charlietuna, on 06/05/2009, -0/+4Part of the Roswell coverup no doubt.
- rodrigo74, on 06/05/2009, -0/+4Probaby because it is a 404
- charlietuna, on 06/05/2009, -0/+4Jeff Goldblum could then hack into it using some recycled 1979 Pascal code.
- apena89, on 06/05/2009, -0/+4If you built it, would it still be a UFO to you?
- Black6x, on 06/05/2009, -0/+3People keep talking about UFO's like they are synonymous with "alien spacecraft". If that were the case, why not just say Alien Spacecraft.
Technically, any object that flies, that you have not yet identified, is a UFO. - norman619, on 06/05/2009, -0/+3wrong. they rattle chanis.
- Schrum, on 06/05/2009, -0/+3Oooh.. Sorry about that. http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/ufo-9.jpg
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -0/+3He runs off a V6 engine
- sandersdamnit, on 06/05/2009, -0/+3that is just science
- norman619, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2Not I. I would buy it only after our top scientists had a chance to examine bodies and craft.
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2Roswell was a balloon...
And you know, this is the age of the cellphone camera. If aliens touched down all the time we would have footage of them.. - norman619, on 06/05/2009, -1/+3I think it's cute that you honestly think you know more than men like Michio Kaku and others. It must drive you nuts that no one thinks you are as intellignent as you seem to think.
- Biosfear01, on 06/24/2009, -0/+2Don't be silly, Aliens are too far advanced to use email, its all telepathic ***** these days.
- wzpgsr, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2Paul R. Hill, an aeronautical engineer for NASA, wrote a book in the 1970s called "Unconventional Flying Objects," which explored how UFOs—as commonly reported—*might* work. The book was published in the 1990s, but I don't know if it's still in print.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Hill - Culyt, on 06/05/2009, -1/+3*spoiler* It's by moaning!
- simpleid, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2How is it that no one ever is capable of producing any clear recordings of these situations?
It seems like in every encounter there is only *one person with a camera, it doesn't matter how many people, and only one or two photos is taken.
Seriously. If people want some serious answers they better provide some serious evidence. Otherwise the suspicion of fraudulent claims goes through the roof, naturally.
What annoys me is people demanding answers for questions that no one may even have the answers to.
What if the government actually DOES NOT know how to identify a small percentage of UFOs... do you want them to LIE to you? It's all they could do ANYWAY. Even if they are lying, if you can't PROVE that they are then what are you going to do? Go on and on in a paranoid fashion?
Think about this logically, not just from *your perspective, but from everyones perspective.
I would love to know that extraterrestrial alien life has found a way to visit us, but I'm not so desperate that I want to believe in a lie either. If it's real and you have evidence... but that evidence is hardly substantial then... you still don't have enough to prove anything even if it is real.
Tough luck. - Sheethappens, on 06/06/2009, -0/+2What is actual - though we cant prove a thing because we dont have the scientific advancement - is that if a UFO flies as has said to have been observed, it does so without crushing the occupants. Thus, if it is moving and stops instantly or changes direction instantly such as in a 90 degree change or more, then if the occupants are feeling no change inside, their inertial velocity is equal to the ship in which they are travelling at ALL times. It would be as if things outside the craft were doing the moving, not you or your craft, to your perception, if you were riding in it. Also, it means that the craft sluices through the air without building up a wash behind it that would come crashing into it if it did an instant stop. We can all think of science fiction terms in which this is possible but there have been actual science fiction stories which give a plausible explanation of how it can be achieved though obviously, only if we had a higher level of technology. Basically, if the craft were able to develope a gravity field outside the craft and not attached to it that was constantly at the same distance as it moved, the craft would "fall" towards that field constantly meaning everything in the craft and the craft would all have the same velocity. So if the same force were suddenly applied to the reverse of the craft considering the direction it was heading originally, the craft should start to fall towards it. Obviously the force that would make it stop instantly would have to be much larger than the one that was originally drawing it along and just as instantly have to disappear when it nullified forward motion. In the same way the craft can focus that force above it to balance the force of gravity on this planet so that it would apper to hang in the one spot.
If you want to have some idea of how this is possible and see a rather crude effort in operation, buy a school gyroscope at least 6 inches tall, spin it and set it at the edge of a table and tilt it over 45 degrees so that no part of the spinning gyro touches anything else, other than the base of it touching the table. You will note that the gyro doesnt fall off the table while spinning but eventually the spinning slows and it WILL fall off. For that short time of adequate spin, the gyro, at that 45 degree angle, has caused all but the base to be equal and not affected by the downward force of gravity, funnelling the gravity force inwards and downwards to the base. The base has its own gravity effect plus that funnelled down by what you might see as a singularity of sorts and stays put. Now push the top over so that it is hanging off the table but level. Suddenly gravity is equal up and down the shaft and there is no point of anchor so the top doesnt just drop off the table, it slightly ejects from the table. In the instant this is happening, it is like, in representation, a fluid level that is trying to find its balance. All that really needs to be done, then, to make our own real working flying saucer is to find out how to use that larger than 1G force at the base of the gyro that is spinning back on itself. Eg, if you can counter that exactly you get true independence from gravity in that bubble.
Now many of you will negatively digg this to hell and beyond but just before you click that button, do this - imagine in your mind a gyro spinning on a table and tilted to 45 degrees. Imagine gravity pushing down on it and the spin itself. The gyro is spinning with equal force on opposite sides all along its length. What is happening in the absolute centre of the shaft running down the centre of the gyro? It is spinning from the inside of that material creating miniscule but measureable outwards force except at that absolute centre where it is equally nullified. Yes I know about the law of angular momentum. It does not adequately explain the actions of that gyroscope. We need to start using our imagination to picture what the hell is happening and THEN order it, not the other way around.
Well, that's it for this post. Now to see if I can best my previous negative digg record. When I upset the almost religious-like beliefs of those who dont want to know anything past their version of what, in religion, would be called the bible or Koran etc, they get just as uppity as if I were to say to the religious that their beliefs were wrong. Unfortunately when you keep trying to understand something that isnt adequately explained in science, you always upset those who cant imagine! - norman619, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2If these things are from an alien civilization then it's a safe bet that "interceptors and skydivers" can't do much. We'd have less chance against them than the native Americans had against the white man.
- norman619, on 06/05/2009, -1/+3no but it would be to others.
- inactive, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2Russians are far more superstitious and believe in mythical crap like ghosts and aliens than Americans do yet they aren't falling behind in science.
- rentdn, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2I believe that UFO's exist , will be very silly to think that in whole Universe we are alone. Isn't it too big only for humans ??
- Jakoul, on 06/05/2009, -5/+7It's my honest beliefs that 'aliens' have visited us many times and do make countless crop circles. I also believe that the United States and Russian governments have been developing their own vehicles like those flying saucers for a long time.
Either way it doesn't matter. :D - lostinseganet, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2Why has no one built a large slying sauser. It would be instant fame INSTANT money!
- alsazen, on 06/06/2009, -0/+2probably because there isn't much demand for slying saucers.
Fame and fortune in in Flying saucers, but I think that is a little harder to pull off ;) - m3arvk, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2I'm big into space opera so let me share my thoughts. Firstly, the underlying axiom for this type of propulsion is that in the physical universe it is axiomatic that opposites attract and conversely, similarities repel. This, I believe, is an expression of the underlying truth of things. What I mean by that is that time and space are merely manifestations of disorder; if you reverse time you get a shrinking of space and thereby condensation of matter. The matter condenses infinitely as time approaches zero. This is the true state of things, no space, no motion, etc. - a true static. This answers many of the more pressing philosophic questions as well - there are no absolute answers because questions themselves are manifestations of space and time, which are themselves lies.
Back to the issue at hand, a single frequency with enough magnitude should be sufficient to create repulsion, which can be viewed as propulsion depending on one's viewpoint. Things like microwaves work on the idea of resonant frequency; they hit water molecules with a wavelength and they get excited. This excitation manifests as heat, which is how things get cooked. The problem here is that there are more than a couple frequencies which will cause a reaction in a given particle. The frequency that repels is slightly higher or lower than the one which causes excitation. So I posit that where this has failed they either failed to discover the correct frequency and/or failed to use put enough energy in the wave to create a visible manifestation.
One could postulate that advanced technologies have the means to produce artificial gravity. Such an assumption would account for UFOs ability to change directions very quickly (which would kill pilots normally) and provides a means of propulsion; simply creating a gravity field in front of the craft of some magnitude to propel the craft toward it via gravity. - daeus, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2I've seen those insane Mexican UFO videos of 10's of white dots flying around, thats pretty kool.
- rentdn, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2Some believe in ghosts , others in fairy tales and I believe that we are not alone .
Quote "Blessed are they who believe without seeing " ;)
I'm kidding about the quote , but i still beleive in UFOs :) - m3arvk, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2If you find the resonant frequency of a molecule you can create levitation by matching the frequency in an energy wave.
- sandersdamnit, on 06/05/2009, -0/+2OOOOOOOOOHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- kashifahsan, on 06/05/2009, -3/+4For more information, email me at alien@area51.com
- mizusajt, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1This article is bull. Everyone knows that when the aliens come to earth, they destroy several cities and wipe our minds so that we forget the whole thing. The only reason UFO sightings occur is because the mind-erase beams don't effect those of the PURE ARYAN RACE
Check this out for proof: http://media.photobucket.com/image/nazi%20UFO/tomb ...
(Yes, this comment is extremely sarcastic, and no, I do not support Nazi antics) - inactive, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1I believe they managed to do that too assuming they exist and keeping an open mind.
The hint is the NASA vids where they show up in UV and IR spectrum's but not in visible light. Now assuming they are what the editor reports them to be, and NASA themselves, then somehow they can possible use electrgravitic or frequency attenuation to render the craft transparent. Not just the casing, but everything in it.
This could be an interesting approach to molecular technology should someone take it up.
It is not that far fetched either. Different materials show better under UV and IR light. Birds, dogs, cats and insects see things we can't. When you think of Light as energy, which it is, then you can understand why Calcium shows in X rays, but not carbon based materials like tissue cells. So energy as a frequency + material = visibility or lack thereof. There has to an opposite that cancels a select frequency. Similar to bouncing a 30khz wave into a 30khz wave to cancel the sound. Headphones do it simply. There has to be a way to do with everything else too. Everything is simply energy and a frequency of... - LucifersDad, on 06/06/2009, -0/+1What I have noticed
1) UFOs don't use thrusters like out aircraft.
2) They either emit a type of radiation or absorb it.
3) The only ones who know that these are UFOs are the government's. As they are the ones who would track these UFOs from space.
4) Most of the evidence would be from the military but they are not allowed to say anything.
5) Any country that admits to having a UFO would not be able to keep any technology it gets from the UFO for itself.
As for me I am a sceptic, but if aliens are here they are here. Humans can't do anything about it just like ants can't do anything about humans. If aliens wanted us dead , all they have to do is push meteorites into our path and wipe us out like the dinosaurs. - inactive, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1So rather than an article about how UFOs work (as the tile led me to expect) I found myself reading several short pages of drivel which attempted to sum up, very briefly, what most people know about UFOs.
- WTFISAMOLLUSK, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1Magic got it.
- nyxerebos, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1She needs to eat a couple pounds of fairies before She can do anything magical though.
- LucidHawk, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1Why do people spout this kind of ***** without knowing what they are talking about?
There are numerous clear shots and numerous clear videos and I'm not talking computer generated.
It's hard to come across much of the good stuff online because it's overrun by know nothings that repost old disproven stuff.
You really gotta look around.
But after being knee deep in this stuff for years you see plenty. - LucidHawk, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1Tell me have you ever looked at the evidence, the work by numerous PhDs on the subject and the major scientific studies on UFOs for yourself?
Instead of relying on other people to tell you what to think? -
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