Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the Philadelphia Experiment.\n\nOk Consider this story true.\n\nIf it is true, what kind of advances do you think the government has made behind the scenes in the past 60 years in that field of technology?
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As a tried and true Science Fiction, I like What Ifs as much as the next person.  I think it is important to keep it all in perspective. We did indeed put a man on the moon, but we have yet to find a way to teleport anything. \n\nTo answer your question, a discover of that magnitude could never be kept secret. The money to be made from such a technology would guarantee someone would either leak the secret or steal it.
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The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle) is a nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the southernmost tip of Florida. The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both.\nWhile there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world. Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades.\nThe triangle is an arbitrary shape, crudely marking out a corridor of the Atlantic, stretching Northward from the West Indies, along the North American seaboard, as far as the Carolinas. In the Age of Sail, ships returning to Europe from parts South would sail North to the Carolinas, then turn East for Europe, taking advantage of the prevailing wind direction across the North Atlantic. Even with the development of steam, and internal-combustion, a great deal more shipping traffic was, and is, found nearer the US coastline than towards the empty centre of the Atlantic. The Triangle also loosely conforms with the course of the Gulf Stream as it leaves the West Indies, and has always been an area of volatile weather. The combination of distinctly heavy maritime traffic and tempestuous weather meant that a certain, also distinctly large, number of vessels would founder in storms. Given the historical limitations of communications technology (pigeons?), most of those ships that sank without survivors would disappear without a trace. The advent of wireless communications, radar, and satellite navigation meant that the disappearances ceased at some point in the 20th Century. The occasional vessel still sinks, but rarely without a trace. It should be noted that both the concept, and the name of the Bermuda Triangle date only to the 1960s, and were the products of an American journalist.\nAnother area often purported to possess unusual characteristics is the Devil's Sea, located near Japan.\nScientific explanations-\nThe marine insurer Lloyd's of London has determined the "triangle" to be no more dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual rates for passage through the region. Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion.\nSkeptics comment that the disappearance of a train between two stops would be more convincing evidence of paranormal activity, and the fact that such things do not occur suggests that paranormal explanations are not needed for the disappearance of ships and airplanes in the far less predictable open ocean.\nIntrigued by the number of students coming to him looking for information about the Bermuda Triangle, Lawrence Kusche, a reference librarian with Arizona State University at the time of the Flight 19 incident, began an exhaustive follow-up investigation of the original reports. His findings were eventually published in 1975 as The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved.\nKusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants and others involved in the initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence that Crowhurst had fabricated the accounts of his voyage and had probably committed suicide. Another example was the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without tr
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Your theory on aliens being earthlings from the future is absolutely plausible. I am not by any means convinced of aliens visiting us but I have followed area 51 since I was 15 years old which was a long time ago. The original stories and my technical knowledge of the time told me that it was a hoax but thought the years with the "Right to know" act being passed, government documents have been released through the years that have proved the government wasnt telling the total truth. For instance, a young physicist named Bob Lazar told the public that he was hired by the government to reverse engineer something that was at area 51. The government denied that he ever worked there. Years later it was found that this fellow actually worked there. I didnt let it sway me too much but recently a retired General who originally had the job of reverse engineering early Russian planes wrote a book about it. He claims that he was moved to area 51 to start the reverse engineering of this so called space craft. He states that many of the things we use today are a direct byproduct of his teams findings such as desktop pcs.... lasers that can burn through 1 inch steel, passive night vision and so on. The most interesting thing he said though was the fact that they found these aliens weren't aliens at all but from our future! He said that they navigated time by simply exiting the space time continuum and reentering it elsewhere in time. The thing that baffles me is in the past 20 years our technology has exploded. I also wonder why all of our air weapons have been released and sold to other countries such as the stealth bomber and fighter planes. We must be sitting on something big!
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I watched a very interesting show that proposed a theory about ships vanishing.  He also gave a very convincing demonstration.  He believes a ship can be sunk immediately if the earth beneath the water was to "Burp" huge amounts of Methane.  This occurrence has happened in a lake in Africa which killed off an entire village.   \n\nHe demonstrated how this would work (in a lab).   He had a huge tank filled with water, that enabled him to have tiny bubbles be emitted from the bottom, with a model ship floating above.  As soon as the tiny bubbles reached the ship, it sank immediately to the bottom.  It showed that the people on board would not have time to call for help.   Air (or Methane gas) will reduce the buoyancy of the ship and sink it.   \n\nSo, this could explain how a ship could vanish without a trace or getting an SOS before it sank.   As for the planes, well, they do fall from the sky for many reasons, and the Ocean (even just the Bermuda Triangle) is a pretty big area.\n\nI was Aircrew in the Navy, and had been on Search and Rescue missions in that area. . .I have to tell you, when we were searching, we never found anyone. . .it was very difficult to see anything.\n\nPlease. . . Vote. . .
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Several theories abound. According to talk radio it was a craft, but what sort/origin? Some say alien UFO. One source connected to US military claim it was a Made In USA craft. Huge baffles in craft silence the jet engines that power it!
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Some of what is presented in "loose change" can be disputed to the point of possibly being coincidental or hear say.\n\nBut there are also things that are pointed out in the film that cannot be disputed, as it would violate the laws of physics for them to have occurred in the way that our government has led us to believe.\n\nI have been doing research on both sides of this issue and there are several items that violate physics.\n\n1. No mater how structurally compromised the struck floors were, the towers could not have fallen at free fall speed. This can only occur when there is no support anywhere under the falling structure.\n\n2. You cannot take out multiple light poles on the way into the pentagon with out leaving massive amounts of debris in the path from the poles knocking chunks out of the plane much less the flaming fuel spill it would have produced. The Boeing fuel tests proved that a plane hitting even a single light pole would rip the wing off creating a huge fireball immediately. There was no debris or scorch marks anywhere other than the scorch marks at the building itself.\n\nThe laws of physics do not conveniently change for anyone no matter how much rhetoric that people spew. We will probably never know the truth about who was responsible, but we do know that the story our government has fed us doesn't hold water.
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The Bermuda Triangle (also known as Devil's Triangle) is a nearly half-million square-mile (1.2 million km2) area of ocean roughly defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the southernmost tip of Florida. The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both.\n\nWhile there is a common belief that a number of ships and airplanes have disappeared under highly unusual circumstances in this region, the United States Coast Guard and others disagree with that assessment, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world. Many of the alleged mysteries have proven not so mysterious or unusual upon close examination, with inaccuracies and misinformation about the cases often circulating and recirculating over the decades.\n\n\nSkeptical responses\n\nThe marine insurer Lloyd's of London has determined the "triangle" to be no more dangerous than any other area of ocean, and does not charge unusual rates for passage through the region. Coast Guard records confirm their conclusion.\n\nSkeptics comment that the disappearance of a train between two stops would be more convincing evidence of paranormal activity, and the fact that such things do not occur suggests that paranormal explanations are not needed for the disappearance of ships and airplanes in the far less predictable open ocean.\n[edit]\n\nKusche's research\n\nIntrigued by the number of students coming to him looking for information about the Bermuda Triangle, Lawrence Kusche, a reference librarian with Arizona State University at the time of the Flight 19 incident, began an exhaustive follow-up investigation of the original reports. His findings were eventually published in 1975 as The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved.\n\nKusche's research revealed a number of inaccuracies and inconsistencies between Berlitz's accounts and statements from eyewitnesses, participants and others involved in the initial incidents. He noted cases where pertinent information went unreported, such as the disappearance of round-the-world yachtsman Donald Crowhurst which Berlitz had presented as a mystery, despite clear evidence that Crowhurst had fabricated the accounts of his voyage and had probably committed suicide. Another example was the ore-carrier Berlitz recounted as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean. Kusche also argued that a large percentage of the incidents attributed to the Bermuda Triangle's mysterious influence actually occurred well outside it.\n\nKusche came to several conclusions:\n\n    * The number of ships and airplanes reported missing in the area was not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than any other part of the ocean.\n    * In an area frequented by tropical storms, the number of disappearances that did occur was neither disproportionate, unlikely, nor mysterious.\n    * The numbers themselves had been exaggerated by sloppy research. A boat listed as missing would be reported, but not necessarily its eventual, if belated, return to port.\n    * The circumstances of confirmed disappearances were frequently misreported in Berlitz's accounts. The numbers of ships disappearing in supposedly calm weather, for instance, did not tally with weather reports published at the time.
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That balloon with camera thing is a little out-dated. We're just a "little" bit more sophisticated now. We have computer controlled Airial devices that can take pictures and show us areas we might not be able to get to. I'm sure the military is pretty much up to date on most modern technology.
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I looked for you but I got this far and no further sorry\nhttp://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/LSM19.htm
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I do believe military intelligence have some evidence of possible contact . Sadly the subject has been treated as a joke by the tabloid media with terms like" little green men ". The best books i have read on the subject are by Timothy Good and Nick Pope. Millions of dollars have been spent on various projects investigating UFOs and is treated as a issue of security  and there's hundreds of expert witnesses like the cases involving objects seen over military installations . Some could be black projects new stealth technology but there still leaves a percentage that cant be simply explained away in my opinion  the subject should be treated a little bit more seriously.
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I'm not to sure of this ,but I think I once read somewhere\nabout bomber crews of the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.A.F.(as it was then)reporting strange looking aircraft that they saw in European skies,try the reference library,a fascinating subject,best of luck with it
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I'm not an engineer, but it would be worth a test. I'm not sure it would have the desired effect, though. Her first five compartments were compromised by either the gash or buckling of steel and popping rivets. Water entering there and allowed to flood evenly would still pull the bow down (although not as sharply) and water would reach the engine rooms and boilers, compromising the pumps even sooner.\n\nThey closed the water tight doors thinking it was the right thing to do. But the watertight compartments only went up to E deck at which point water flooded over their tops to the next compartment. Why didn't they enclose the watertight compartments? Why didn't they have enough lifeboats? Why was the steel so inferior?\n\nA new theory was just presented on Discovery Channel andbased on a recent discovery. They found two intact cross sections of the double-bottomed hull laying in the debris field. These sections traversed the ship from keel hull to keel hull. The theory is that the ship didn't crack as portrayed in the film, but a crack started at the top of the ship and then the ship bowed like a wide U, popping off the bottom hull sections, flooding the engine room, and creating the smashed uppper decks we see on the ocean floor (previously explained as smashed downward during impact with the ocean floor).
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Ever seen "The Hunt For The Red October" ???\n\nThe Soviets made a super quiet sub using Magneto Hydrodynamics, its theoretically possible so the Chinese just implemented it.
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No, I don't think so, but that doesn't mean that someone isn't trying. That guy in Idaho is pretty wacko, but I have heard of a few things that OUR government/military have been doing in Alaska.  I've read and heard a few things about using microwave beams of natural radiation (basically microwaves directed at cloud formations and the Ionisphere) that change the winds in the upper and lower layers of the atmosphere, change some cloud formations, I believe by disapation, with the high concentration of the microwave energy (and it requires a huge amount of energy to power this beam, and also I don't know what the power source would be, but still it would require a ton of energy, to run this device, like having it's own power plant type of #'s), and the one other point is that the area that is effected by this microwave beam is very small and regionalized, probably just a few 10's of feet.  I've read a few things on the net, and of course there are conspiracy theories and all, but the US Govt have been interested in weather modification for a long time to use as a weapon of war, to help weaken the enemy, so it wouldn't surprise me to think that some form of this has got to be true. The person who controls the weather, will eventually rule the world, pretty heavy stuff, I know. So we may have some of the technology to do this, but it's on a very small scale. The guy from Idaho is crazy, but at the same time he is making alot of money off of this crap, with his internet sites and radio appearances. This guy used to be a tv weatherman, but then saw the dollar signs to do this, instead. Hmmm..., maybe I should do this?
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Hmm, think hard_then speak has an interesting one, although the answer is reasonably well known.\n\nFollowing the WWII I'd interview Werner Heisenberg in 1944 to see if he was really NOT trying to build an A-bomb for Nazi Germany, or if that is just what he said after the war. (And after he learned he was going about it in the wrong way.)
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Experimenting with magnetorheological fluids.\nSuspending a magnet in mid-air.\nLevitating pyrolytic graphite.\nA Gauss Rifle: A Magnetic Linear Accelerator.\nBuilding a Curie-effect heat engine.\nGoing further:\n\nSuperconductors.\n\n \n \n \nThe Gauss Rifle:\nA Magnetic Linear Accelerator\n \n \n This very simple toy uses a magnetic chain reaction to launch a steel marble at a target at high speed. The toy is very simple to build, going together in minutes, and is very simple to understand and explain, and yet fascinating to watch and to use.  \n \n gauss rifle Click on image for animated view  \n \n The photo above shows six frames of video showing the gauss rifle in action. Each frame shows 1/30th of a second. In the first frame, a steel ball starts rolling towards a magnet taped to a wooden ruler. In the second frame, a second ball can be seen speeding between the rightmost two magnets. By the third frame, the accelerator has sped up so much that the ball that is seen leaving the left side of the device is just a blur as it smashes into the target. One ball, starting at rest, has caused another ball to leave the device at a very high speed.  \n \n gauss rifle materials Click on image for larger view  \n \n The materials are simple. We need a wooden ruler that has a groove in the top in which a steel ball can roll easily. Any piece of wood or aluminum or brass with a groove will work. We chose the ruler because they are easy to find around the house or at school or at a local stationery store.  \n \n We need some sticky tape. Again, almost any kind will do. Here we use Scotch brand transparent tape, but vinyl electrical tape works just as well.  \n \n We need four magnets. Most any type will do, but the stronger the magnets are, the faster the balls will go. Here we use the super strong gold-plated neodymium-iron-boron magnets we have made available in our catalog for the other projects. They work great.  \n \n We will also need nine steel balls, with a diameter that is a close match to the height of the magnets. We use 5/8 inch diameter nickel plated steel balls from our catalog.  \n \n The only tool we will need is a sharp knife for trimming the tape.  \n \n gauss rifle first\nClick on image for larger view  \n \n We start by taping the first magnet to the ruler at the 2.5 inch mark. The distance is somewhat arbitrary -- we wanted to get all four magnets on a one foot ruler. Feel free to experiment with the spacing later.  \n \n gauss rifle tape\nClick on image for larger view  \n \n With the sharp knife, trim off any excess tape. Be careful, since the knife will be strongly attracted to the magnet.  \n \n It is very important that you keep the magnets from jumping together. They are made of a brittle sintered material that shatters like a ceramic. Tape the ruler to the table temporarily, so that it doesn't jump up to the next magnet as you tape the second magnet to the ruler.  \n \n gauss rifle two\nClick on image for larger view  \n \n Continue taping the magnets to the ruler, leaving 2.5 inches between the magnets.  \n \n When all four magnets are taped to the ruler, it is time to load the gauss rifle with the balls.  \n \n gauss rifle all\nClick on image for larger view  \n \n To the right of each magnet, place two steel balls. Arrange a target to the right of the device, so the ball does not roll down the street and get lost.  \n \n To fire the gauss rifle, set a steel ball in the groove to the left of the leftmost magnet. Let the ball go. If it is close enough to the magnet, it will start rolling by itself, and hit the magnet.  \n \n gauss rifle ready\nClick on image for larger view  \n \n When the gauss rifle fires, it will happen too fast to see. The ball on the right will shoot away from the gun, and hit the target with considerable force. Our one foot long version is designed so the speed is not enough to hurt someone, and you can use your hand or foot as a target.
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There has been some sucess in invisibility lately and the real deal for governments is just around the corner.\n\n\n\nInvisibility Achieved \nInvisibility Achieved ... New Scientist - Working invisibility cloak created at last. Photonics Online - First Demonstration of a Working Invisibility Cloak ...physics.about.com/b/a/007455.htm \n\n\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisibility\nInvisibility is here, just not perfected. Since objects can be seen by light in the visible spectrum from a source reflecting off their surfaces and hitting the viewer's eye, the most natural form of invisibility (whether real or fictional) is an object which does not reflect nor absorbs light (that is, it allows light to pass through it). In nature, this is known as transparency, and is seen in many naturally-occurring materials (although no naturally-occurring material is 100% transparent).\n\nVisibility also depends on the eyes of the observer and/or the instruments used. Thus an object can be classified as "invisible to" a person, animal, instrument, etc.\n\nInvisibility \nThe following text is a combination of two separate files on Invisibility. ... Cold-rolling of steel - To induce Invisibility in matter, we can use any of ...www.keelynet.com/unclass/invisi.htm  \nThe US government has a cloat of invisibility but it is not yet feasible for say a tank or battleship.\nHere's how to make an invisibility cloak - Science - MSNBC.com \n... on new types of materials that can throw a cloak of invisibility around objects. ... engineer Nader Engheta, who published his own invisibility recipe last year. ...www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12961080?GT1=8199