a shrine of insignificance

So I’m watching a interesting program on the history of the meat packing and butchering industries on the History Channel. The program ends and a new one called “The UFO Hunters” starts. The topic of today’s episode is reverse engineering of alien technology. In short, they are claiming that the majority of major engineering breakthroughs of the last 60 years was reversed engineered from crashed alien spacecraft. It pisses me off. How dare they accuse so many brilliant people of being frauds secretly working for the Government just because they like the intelligence to understand modern technology and such a low opinion of the creative genius man is capable of. As an engineer (although that can be debated) myself I found it disgusting that anyone could believe such nonsense. The only evidence is a series of documents that could have been easily faked. An “expert” who refuses to answer any questions that could be used to prove or disprove his claims. A supposed eyewitness account by a now dead Astronaut who never filed a report on his “sighting” and when asked about it up to his death insisted the story wasn’t true and was made up by someone else. Anecdotal accounts of US-Soviet technology theft during the Cold War (afterall if we can reverse engineer a Soviet technology why not that of an Alien race). The biggest underlying theme is that human engineers can’t possibally be smart enough to create Fiber Optics, or Stealth Aircraft, of Flying Wings, etc. I can see this crap showing up on the Web or on a television network not presenting itself as factual non-fictional content. But the History Channel should have higher standards. At least be fair, investigate the sources, do not take a eyewitness account as undeniable proof, especially when he could easily set the rumors to rest but is supposedly to afraid of being murded by the US Government to say anything more.

Filed under: General on July 25th, 2008