07-02-2013, 07:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2013, 08:26 PM by Jim Hackett II.)
Quote Mr. Charles Drago:
"When discussing the available technology of a given period in the 19th, 20th, or 21st centuries -- at least -- we must differentiate between publicly available and privately held methods and machines.
An example: We have no way of knowing how long stealth technology has been available to the U.S. armed forces. Reports of mysterious, triangular-shaped flying objects that do not register on radar screens long predate the public unveiling of the stealth fighter and bomber."
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A profound point if one thinks about the issue for a moment. And the example is pertinent.
In the mid 1980s when I was fishing a weekend I saw an F-117 flying in the vicinity of Camp Atterbury. (Southern Indiana at that time an INACTIVE base save for Job Corps and Indiana National Guard "exercises").
When I described what I saw about half of my friends wanted to convince me that I saw a UFO. Yes it was flying and was unidentified to me.
I knew better though I had no idea exactly what I saw, I knew it moved funny in the air unlike 'normal' aircraft. It was subsonic. It was black. It was silent. It was shaped like an arrowhead. That was my description at the time. 1986.
But I had to wait for the Gulf War exposure of the Skunk Work's latest.
Maybe this bears on the point of how far advanced past public knowledge black arts have become.
Or have always been.
Jim
"When discussing the available technology of a given period in the 19th, 20th, or 21st centuries -- at least -- we must differentiate between publicly available and privately held methods and machines.
An example: We have no way of knowing how long stealth technology has been available to the U.S. armed forces. Reports of mysterious, triangular-shaped flying objects that do not register on radar screens long predate the public unveiling of the stealth fighter and bomber."
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A profound point if one thinks about the issue for a moment. And the example is pertinent.
In the mid 1980s when I was fishing a weekend I saw an F-117 flying in the vicinity of Camp Atterbury. (Southern Indiana at that time an INACTIVE base save for Job Corps and Indiana National Guard "exercises").
When I described what I saw about half of my friends wanted to convince me that I saw a UFO. Yes it was flying and was unidentified to me.
I knew better though I had no idea exactly what I saw, I knew it moved funny in the air unlike 'normal' aircraft. It was subsonic. It was black. It was silent. It was shaped like an arrowhead. That was my description at the time. 1986.
But I had to wait for the Gulf War exposure of the Skunk Work's latest.
Maybe this bears on the point of how far advanced past public knowledge black arts have become.
Or have always been.
Jim