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Originally Posted by keg in kc
If we did have recovered technology from Roswell and/or other crashes (and I'm not saying we don't), I don't believe there's any way we could have reverse-engineered any of it. Not in the 40s, and not today. Assuming it's actually an extraterrestrial device, and not something originating from a species descended from a lost period of history on this planet. We're talking about a completely alien technology, absolutely nothing about it even remotely recognizable, whether we're talking the mechanics, the controls, the language, or the science behind it. It really would operate like magic to us, and we'd have absolutely no way to decipher any of it, unless we've had some kind of help. Which I just don't believe. Otherwise we just don't have any frame of reference.
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But what if said alien species comes from a planet that's very similar or even identical to earth but from some other solar system, one w/ the same atomic energy has same or similar metals/minerals/elements etc? I mean we're able to see only a very small fraction of what actually exists out there. We've been conditioned on what we "think" Aliens are, what they look like etc from mostly Hollywood. Not saying i necessarily disagree w/ what you say, you may be even right..but at the end of the day there's just a lot of unknown and/or the federal govt is holding back classified info and we do in fact know a lot more than we thought.