The 1945 Model of Extraterrestrial Advanced Technology
Introduction to The Roswell Game Series
The definition of lunacy is being rigid in methodology and expecting different results. I do suspect very strongly that something strange is occurring in the atmosphere.That being said, it has been my experience, that this Roswell Game has been the greatest hindrance to the exploration of the causes of these anomalies and I also strongly suspect it is a misdirection of attention. That being said as the postulate for this series, my aim is to take the best ax I can find and smash this ridiculous obstacle into little pieces as best I can. The reader can judge for his or herself how useful this is to open up the weak foundations of "because the nebulous they said so" as the central critical assumption that is a straw dog.. The possibility that a exquisitely constructed hoax based on this premise is easy to plant and plan, based on only the utilization of self referential logic as the fulcrum of a free floating myth is more probable than the composite sum of the evidence if it is analyzed by logic rather than goofy belief systems.You might want to jump to the postscript.
The Evidence Cited is The Missing Evidence
Structures used in the structure of a spacecraft must take into account axial loading, strain, torsion, shearing, and buckling. What is the purpose of an I-Beam? Simply put the I -Beam was invented to ensure the rigidity of a engineered structure to avoid bending and shear loads in the plane of the web. On the other hand, the cross-section has a reduced capacity in the transverse direction, and is also inefficient in carrying torsion. Torsion is the action of twisting or the state of being twisted which is to be avoided to ensure the rigidity of a structure. The reported I-Beam allegedly recovered from an alien spacecraft was bendable. However once free of torsion, it would supposedly resume it's previous semi-rigid state. This is exactly what you do not want in a spacecraft. Once the torsion that occurs in flight occurs, the structural integrity is compromised, therefore the craft loses it's capability aerodynamically to fly. Did such a material exist and if so, is there any evidence beyond it's alleged existence, to support it's efficacy in the integrity of a spacecraft? The simple answer appears to be no. Ask any engineer to put a bendable metal as a support structure in a aircraft they will get a good chuckle out of your naivety.
If this is so, how did the misdirection of attention occur in the critical assumption that a bendable metal is advantageous to spacecraft and air craft design?
Because someone said it existed.
Lets discuss the reasoning behind the engraving of writing on a bendable I-Beam that is falsely or simply assumed to be a integral member to the structural integrity of a spacecraft. Is an bendable I-Beam a good location to place instructions or flight characteristics of the material if it is bendable? The critical assumption is that it was accessible to read. and was critical enough to engrave. Was this due to a recurring lapse of memory, a means to reconstruct the craft, flight instructions,? Well if it was engraved it was not graffiti. The assumption that it was engraved to be read by the flight crew must be taken into account.
Was this a necessity if they had the required navigational equipment, sensory monitoring, flight feedback and control modules? Was it a engineering post-it note?
Lets say this is unlikely. Then what could the writing on the beam represent? Anyone who works with structural shapes knows that at times depending on the purpose and the materials used, structural shapes can be found to be engraved. Usually this can include information such as the date of manufacture, its weight, its dimensions and it's place of manufacture.The reason for this is the chain of distribution. In other words, someone not directly involved in the manufacturing of the shape would not have to look hither and yon to determine if this was the correct material as it appears to be, etc. Many users can have different purposes for the same material. So is there an alien distribution chain that has many users of the same material for differing purpose that would require them to be able to verify these data points in a post manufacturing scenario.?
Here is where we make a distinction between purpose built materials and general materials and specialty materials. Spacecraft and aircraft use specialty materials. You cannot use off the shelf aluminum as an example that is used to side a house to skin a high velocity aircraft as it's structural and mechanical characteristics are not applicable. So what would take the place of an engraving on a structural member of a specialized, one use material?
Its called the specifications with a scope of work A document that specify' s all the material to be used, how it is used and where it is used. Think of it this way, what would it be like to make a duplicate of an aircraft if you had to dissemble the first one to determine what was used to build a second one? This is extremely unlikely .Recall that this alleged artifact that is cited as evidence while it is missing allegedly represents a craft that is centuries ahead of us in the technological design, execution, and materials. Take another look at that I_Beam at the top of this post and consider the illogic of a bendable structural support that encourages a failure due to torsion during flight, an unnecessary engraving, and a willingness to believe any old tale because someone said it was so. Nothing more than that.
Further consider the state of our own comparatively primitive technology in relation to a hypothetical one that is centuries advanced of our own. Composite matrix filaments, molecular engineering of materials, advanced thermoplastics etc Consider that these are some of the materials that are in the public domain and are proprietary and does not represent a full listing of advanced materials whose composition is withheld for security compartmentalization..Now consider a bendable hypothetical I-Beam with engraving of hieroglyphics on it. Seems appallingly primitive arising from an assumed technology so far beyond our capabilities we may as well fly paper airplanes.. A dream like icon worthy of being excavated from a Mayan temple, an archaic totem, a wishing well for free floating associations ad naseum. No endless cobbling of the hypothetical on the innuendo that comes from the imagination is required. This alleged artifact's writing may as well say "tie your shoes"or "drink ovaltine" The selling of a product packaged to a market of consumers that is meant to self perpetuate it's consumption. It could be Kool Aid.
Part Two
What of the writing itself? Is there a way to determine what if anything it said if it existed and was used in a hypothetical craft navigated by hypothetical extraterrestrials, in a hypothetical mission, that was hypothetically the victim of structural failure, that was hypothetically obtained, in a hypothetical coverup that justify's the creation of more circular logic that is a misdirection of attention? . Does this strike you as goofy rationale for "serious" game playing?
Hows that for a sentence? I have Thomas Wolfe beat by a mile.But that is the domino effect due to the causation of of self hypnotism, the willingness to suspend critical thinking in search of a mirage that is based solely on inference and innuendo.
Again in Part Two, we will examine this alleged example of "hieroglyphics" that were "hidden" in a hypothetical conspiracy to determine if this hypothetical artifact can be analyzed is as well as apply John Nash's Game Theory to this endless Roswell Game that is inadvertently as well as intentionally sucked the wind out of Ufology because it's point is simply self continuation.
Twistable metal has twisted some minds. The real phenomenon is deftly hidden by those who seek it by inane posturing.
Postscript
This post was intended to be the first of a series on the Roswell Game in order to refute a state of enthrallment that has served as a barrier to applying other methodologies. The more I have thought about this situation, the more I think it is hopeless. I have come to the conclusion that going further down this path of refuting a hypnotic state is a waste of my time. Roswell had pulled me into it's gravitation field by the babble of 99 % of others and so I created this post and now I am pulling back into a more sober state. It eats time and energy with no return.


22 comments:
"The real phenomenon is deftly hidden by those who seek it by inane posturing."
Okay! Now we're getting somewhere.
The time for slicing and dicing the pork in the Roswell incident is long overdue. Starting with what it wasn't is a good thing. No more "logic be damned."
Carol
Carol,
When you dissect the hypothetical evidence of Roswell, you have air, empty space. As Paul Kimball said, it's more of a subject ripe for sociology.
It's a suburbanite's parable of the forces present in post war America and pursuing air is a fool's errand.
Roswell is grand opera and theatrical play. It would be a boffo box office sensation if it were placed where it belongs.
Bruce
I couldn't agree more, but I respect your decision to move past it. I enjoy your thoughts with the foregone conclusion that "that" incident isn't what so many want it to be. But it's difficult to avoid thinking, "Aw, come on!"
Thrall indeed.
Anon
I thought of it in terms of a question I posed myself after writing the post which was:
"Can you refute a state of enthrallment?"
I thought about human history for some time. The post was like taking a pea shooter to a aircraft carrier.
What I have found as of late, this rigidity leads to insults, accusations of "changing the subject", etc. An emotional melodrama. The melodrama is off topic but everyone "loves" this addiction.
So..it seems sensible to tack hard to port.
Bruce,
I am a fan of your commentaries, but this particular one generates from so many un-vetted assumptions that I cannot agree with or support it.
As a both literal and metaphorical foil, you select the reported "I beams" as a locus of applied BS. But in so doing, you have postulated a series of assumptions for which there is no support, evidentially or otherwise.
Example number 1): You assume that the "I beams" were stressed, load bearing structural components.
number 2): You then go on to posit the idea that reported "figures" or "hieroglyphics" on these beams were a form of communications from the builders of a hypothetical craft to the operators or users, using our own aircraft industry as an operative example.
In both cases, there is absolutely no reason to assume that any of these applied explanations of yours are relevant to an assumed crashed UFO. For instance, the I-beams may not have had a load bearing role in the structure of a craft whose structure still remains an unknown. Perhaps they were only decorative frames to support shelving for alien knick-knacks. Who knows?
Or, perhaps the envelope of the craft was to some extent flexible. An example of this kind of structure would be ancient Viking longships, whose hulls were designed to flex in one direction, to help absorb the constant lateral forces pushing against the sides of the hull. Far from inviting catastrophic structural failure, this feature made the hull better able to absorb energies which would surely fatigue a more rigid structure.
As for the "figures", can we assume that they represent a language at all? Maybe. Maybe not. Without a context in which to confidently slot otherwise free-floating items, we cannot really assume that this stuff is necessarily one thing or another.
Many people in UFOlogy tend to think of Roswell as a hoax that corrupts the whole UFOlogical field. I find this attitude bizarre for one compelling reason: The Roswell case has more witnesses whose stories corroborate each other than any case extant. Period.
No, there are no "smoking guns" or stray Roswell alien widgets that are indisputably alien. But then that fact more or less applies to the entire UFO field. I should think that UFO afficionados should be well used to that particular paradoxical situation by now.
Or maybe that's just me.......
Mike
I don't think they were shelves for nicknacks, but it's humorous example as the writing on the beams could have been a sort of wallpaper.
From everything I have read on aeronautics, the skin of the craft takes the brunt of atmospheric resistance and so, in the case of being able to flex ( within limits) is a reasonable attribute as you don't need a fracture... but an I beam is an I beam is an I beam.It is intended to maintain the shape of the craft and returning itself to it's original shape once the damage is done appears counter intuitive to common sense. Further what everyone seems to forget, it's a hypothetical beam. Hypothetical... as hypothetical as the incident itself, perhaps more so.
BTW..What I am trying to do is untangle one hypothetical from another. I am saying just look at the beam itself, does this make any sense?
To my knowledge no one has looked at the I Beam untangled from hearsay, so..this to me was a nagging aspect of only one of the pieces of hypothetical
"evidence" worthy of questioning what it represents as a totem, rather than simple being glossed over.
Hi Bruce-
I'm not precisely sure why "ET" could not also incorporate long, squared-off oblong pieces of metal-like material for horizontal structural support.
I am still perplexed about why you feel that other sentients would not use such a configuration? Does this mean that they cannot have joists, girders or beams incorporated in their constructions?
Why are these things seen by you as "too terrestrial"?
Do you believe that they have overcome the need for structural supports?
Even if the craft are both physical and para-physical, they must have "items of construction" (as they are called in General George Schulgen's famous Secret flying saucer memo of October, 1947.)
AJB
Hi Tony
1. The beam is a hypothetical beam
2. That given, a beam is used for structural support so it being bendable is contradictory to it's purpose as torsion is an issue with this beam.
3. The hieroglyphs have no discernible purpose other than to take an ordinary object appear to be exotic also taking into account it serves no purpose as in #2 They defy logic as I said as related in the text, ( specifications, one use materials etc)
4. These creatures (if they existed) would be centuries ahead of us in technology. For example we now unitary bodies made of composite materials are now common in prosaic automobiles. They provide their own strength. However, the structural shells are formed of rigid materials, not crumpling materials. I would think the skin of craft centuries ahead of us would would still have to obey the same laws of physics, regardless of how advanced they are
Compare a Wright Flyer to a B1 bomber, they still require to obey the same physics.
5.Even if you threw out #1-#4 ( which seems to defy logic, consider the description of this material which I know you know very well, then ask yourself if this hypothetical I beam did exist ( for the sake of the discussion) how did it become separated if it had the characteristics ascribed to it? It makes no sense.
BTW..If someone can convince me otherwise, as they say, "I am all ears"
Thanks Tony
Oops I forgot to answer you central question why would this hypothetical example seem primitive. To me, I keep in mind the date it was "discovered" and the technology that existed at that time, and it seems more of a projection than a alleged object. That is, if you compared it to what would be possible centuries from now in terms of reasonable current projections and existing technologies ( which I could go into some detail) and it seems to me like using a wagon wheel for a Porsche. Also based on what I said previously. If you look at what it is actually (as in a plausible function), it is simply a totem for
back-filling yet another hypothetical and yet even in this, it fails the sniff test.
Hi Bruce-
It has been noted that the beam's hieroglyphic shapes seem similar to various forms that are taken on by "electron clouds" that are postulated in quantum physics (See Modern College Physics by Dr. Harvey White.)
One language expert (Roger Weir) believes that the hieroglyphics communicate a technical purpose and that they convey a complex volume of information. He speculates that they may relate to navigational guidance (in the way that electromagnetic fields guide aircraft to land.)
But for us to presuppose the meaning of such symbols is just that- speculation.
AJB
Hi Tony
I have read what you cited a while ago. Lets say that is ( either one) true, why locate this information on a I Beam like a Mayan glyph? It would already be in the data that the ship carried in advanced computers, perhaps as we are advancing toward, quantum computers.
Is this graffiti?
Bruce-
Beauty is in simplicity.
Perhaps required data is embedded in the symbols themselves, at the molecular level or beyond. Maybe they in some way serve a 'computing' function.
The other thing that should be considered is 'color.' In addition to the 'shape' of the symbols, the color violet is associated with them.
In witness accounts that have been published and that are forthcoming- violet and ethereal pastel is a reported feature in some debris and in some sections of the body of the craft.
The 'Colors of Roswell' are rarely discussed but they should be and I will in a future piece.
AJB
The colors as well as the beam are hypothetical and as such any speculation is based on a hypothetical artifact of a hypothetical event and as such could be anything and will remain so into infinity.
Tony..
One final thing..I thought you were looking for hard evidence, have you changed your methodology..?
Bruce-
No change in 'methodology' which includes pursuit of credible testimony, 'paper trails', circumstantial evidence and possible physical evidence (i.e. genuine debris, photos, film, official documents, diaries, etc.)
I was merely responding to (and admittedly speculating on) your post about the I-Beam.
AJB
Tony
I wish you the best of luck, here as well as at RRR, I have said I admire your tenacity. Such determination is admirable irregardless of whatever you were pursuing. However, Roswell is a ink blot, a projection screen without substance in terms of measurability. If you can measure it by finding hard evidence, I would be the last to disparage this effort. We can agree to disagree on the efficacy of an ET theory. The I Beam remains a straw dog to me, a totem without substance, akin to a glyph, like the wearing of a cross indicating belief based on faith. I have no faith in Roswell as to being a "one shot" bullet to solve the phenomenon.
Bruce said: "I have no faith in Roswell as to being a "one shot" bullet to solve the phenomenon."
Of course, no single case can be a "one shot bullet" to explain the entire UFO phenomenon. But given the number of witnesses explaining the details of this case, it is far and away one of the very best human testimonials to a "deep" UFO encounter extant.
If the materialists ever obtain their "solid" UFOlogical evidence, it will be down to a case like Roswell. And my conviction is that if they ever obtain said "evidence" it will not be a "one shot bullet" either. I firmly believe there are "extra-material" elements to the phenomenon that cannot and never will be explained through strictly material means.
However, dozens of witnesses attest to a very material event at Roswell. Their can be only a few explanations for their detailed stories:
1). They are all liars participating in a decades old conspiracy.
Even the most died in the wool debunkers eschew this theory as being logically untenable.
2). They are all mistaken about what they saw.
While this is possible, to accept this hypothesis, one must fabricate explanations for why those people were mistaken. This begins a free-fall down the precipitous slope pioneered by the likes of Phillip Klass. Just making up stuff as you go along is nothing more than imaginative fantasizing posing as "rationalism": i.e., substituting unicorns for real horses.
This is where we find all of those remarkably risible explanations which never quite come close to explaining what witnesses claimed to have seen: weather balloons, wood and metal ex-Nazi aircraft, mutant Japanese teenagers, unfortunate alumni of Joseph Mengele's medical experiments, time-traveling crash test dummies...
All these explanations seem equally untenable to the above proposed "conspiracy". C'mon, I know BS when I see it.....
3). They were reporting to the best of their ability something that actually happened to them.
Notice that only the last exposition requires no active confabulating or a-priori acceptance of un-vetted assumptions.
Occam's razor suggests that the simplest explanations are the most likely to be true because they need no additional evidentiary assumptions or applied theories to be so. Anything else is conspiracy theory or active fantasy. That hardly qualifies as the "rationalism" it pretends to be.
Mike,
This post was about an I Beam and not witnesses. Witnesses and Roswell are an entire subject onto itself.
Either \ or as it applies to "witnesses" is again, a single bullet theory.Many witnesses have already been discredited. Many have cited circumstances surrounding their accounts that cannot be corroborated. The question is what did they witness?
If you read all the verbiage, there are several hypothetical versions of what they witnessed. The question is what did they witness? A ruse?
I do think that something highly strange is occurring. Roswell is a dead end and will remain so. The hypothetical I Beam is a dead end
that illustrates this view. If you
"believe" in Roswell then by all means, do so. I do not want to get pulled into this endless and ludicrous debate on Roswell. Enough is enough, as I said in the post.
Bruce,
My apologies. I am in the midst of writing an article about Roswell and this article of yours was like a tickle on a bad-itch that i just had to scratch. Of course, Roswell is not a "hard evidence" case, but a witness case.
As a witness case it is one of the best documented cases extant. For those who prefer their evidence "hard" and material, there are other cases though, like Roswel,l they are invariably inconclusive. Such is the nature of UFOlogy and "paranormal" studies in general.
We are all chasing phantoms. Just like the physicists with their Large Hadron Collider. Reality is a shell game and I believe that UFOlogy is an apt metaphor for that pursuit. But, every now and then I like to think there is an actual bean hiding under that cup.....
My apologies for that...
No need for an apology, and I think the metaphor is apt. I intentionally separated the soft witness testimony from the hard evidence to take a look at the hard "hypothetical" evidence and ask does this make any sense whatsoever? None of the semi-conclusions I came to were ever answered but that's the way it is.
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