UFO's... What do you think?

[troutsqueezer]

Now, now, don't hold back, spill it.

There's this old diner I was in once. In the back storage room, down a couple of steps into the darkness...

 

[MossRoad]

There's only been two years of no war with U.S., NATO, and/or other European involvement during the 16 years since the start of construction and operation of the LHC. 1998 to present.

Lets face it... military advances trickle over to the civilian sector after every major conflict. Medicine, trauma treatment, emergency room techniques, radar, satellites, remote controls, drones, the U.S. highway system, communications systems, advances in vehicle motive power, suspensions, shipping, logistics.

You can pretty much guarantee that advances in space travel will come from the military. And by space travel, it doesn't necessarily mean human movement from point A to point B. It means moving equipment, robotics, logistics first. The major cost of space travel is keeping the dummy in the seat alive. No dummy = huge savings. If robots can do it, no life support is needed. All that will come mostly from the military first.

 

[sailorman]

I can 't testify about all UFO 's . I can definitely state my people did not crash at Roswell , however we are among you .

 

[Egon]

Interesting how the warriors are lining up on one side and the goat herders/berry pickers are sitting by the campfire singing songs.

Just getting ready to remove the pests from the berry patch!

 

[dave1949]

There's only been two years of no war with U.S., NATO, and/or other European involvement during the 16 years since the start of construction and operation of the LHC. 1998 to present.

Lets face it... military advances trickle over to the civilian sector after every major conflict. Medicine, trauma treatment, emergency room techniques, radar, satellites, remote controls, drones, the U.S. highway system, communications systems, advances in vehicle motive power, suspensions, shipping, logistics.

You can pretty much guarantee that advances in space travel will come from the military. And by space travel, it doesn't necessarily mean human movement from point A to point B. It means moving equipment, robotics, logistics first. The major cost of space travel is keeping the dummy in the seat alive. No dummy = huge savings. If robots can do it, no life support is needed. All that will come mostly from the military first.

There have been skirmishes in the NATO sphere, but nothing remotely approaching WWI & II within the LHC's lifetime.

When you begin with a premise of war as a given, then this becomes something akin to a self-perpetuating, self-fulfilling prophesy situation. Since a huge amount of resources (out of a limited number available) are put into preparing for, executing and dealing with the follow-on results of war, obviously some of the technological gains will be re-purposed for other secondary goals--because war-related is where the needed resources are to be found.

It's also obviously true that those same resources and more (modern warfare is not a profit making endeavor and much of the resources consumed are useless for anything but war) could have been committed to a primary goal other than war.

You can see how easy it is to say that war is a major technological driver--and that will always be true by necessity--until we give peace a chance. It is a case of creating our own truth and not being able to comprehend anything different than our own creation. Imagine 2000 years of more peace than war.

 

[/pine]

Military operations and endeavors may contribute to technology but technology developed by the space program(s) have probably had more affect on the current average American's life...

NASA Technologies Benefit Our Lives

 

[houstonscott]

Well, for now it's just man and some lights in the sky. Not one piece of evidence the other way. Enjoy the lights. HS

 

[Egon]

Just remember that some types of insect are plenty numerous and have a social organization.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Just remember that some types of insect are plenty numerous and have a social organization.

Wow! Your worst nightmare...a spear chucking Centipede!