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Nick is always great when he's on. You covered the JFK assassination in some detail. Why won't you delve into the 9/11 conspiracy theory? There are many engineers and scientists who are truthers. One of them could make for a decent interview.
For example, there were diamond saws, electron microscopes, and mass spectrometers, and there are only so many stable elements in the known universe. So straight off, scientists of the day would be able to see extremely fine details, determine what they are made of, and map how they were organized. From this, it wouldn't be too hard for them to determine what their general purpose was. Figuring out how to manufacture something identical would be a whole other matter.
From there the gears in the lab nerds heads would inevitably begin to spin and new inventions based on the material's properties would be inevitable.
I'm not sure I agree, and I'll give an example to illustrate my point: During the Paradigm Symposium über skeptic PZ Myers mentioned on his presentation how the chunk of the human genome that is known not to code proteins, popularly known as 'junk DNA,' is just that --junk. So according to Myers the non-coding DNA is the genetic version of the human appendix, vestigial & useless.
But now a team of researchers has found out that 'junk DNA' is responsible for sculpting the features of our faces. Pretty important if you ask me, since it may be the difference between looking like Brad Pitt, or looking like Steve Buscemi
My point is that studying the structure & composition of a thing might not get you any closer to understanding its actual function.
I'm 100% confident that scientists in the 40s and 50s would not have been entirely clueless if they had been given materials to study under laboratory conditions. They may seem primitive by today's standards, but in reality they had a lot more capacity than is generally recognized. Most people don't understand the power of science when it has tools that can magnify things tens of thousands of times, determine what it's made of, how it's organized, and set about understanding what it does. Scientists in the 1800s are whole other matter.
Better yet, what if the occupants' minds ARE the energy source? The idea that the human mind when focused its intention can be a source of energy --or could even alter physical reality-- sounds like mystic mumbo jumbo or even plain nuts, but so would the idea of a stream of electrons being powerful enough to light an entire city, to a scientist of the XVIIIth or XIXth century.
This is purely speculative on my part, but maybe that's one of the reasons they haven't figured out how to replicate the (hypothetical) alien tech, even if they actually have a couple of intact craft stored in a secret hangar somewhere.
. . . Perhaps my ramblings are not that delusional
Stop posting pictures of my dad on the Internet!!!!