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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Because governments WILL sit on information/technology. It is not the government's mandate to develop new technology or bring new products to the market. That is the domain of free enterprise and the driver behind free enterprise.
Here's an explanation. Our atmosphere is alien to them. The craft use electromagnetic engines for propulsion and guidance and our atmosphere can be extremely volatile with discharges that can disrupt or disable the systems. Kind of like how a jet can have its systems taken out during a lightning strike. I mean, what the #### is up with our pilots. Used to flying in our atmosphere but occasionally they just fall out of the sky, with regularity (five crashes a day according to the FAA). How is that possible?
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I guess I don't understand your argument. We aren't seeing this tech in use because it doesn't exist, or we aren't seeing it because government sits on tech with near infinite value because it's not their job?
Your second point is just being silly. There are 10's of thousands of flights a day, if we crashed at the rate aliens do, we'd not have an aviation industry, unless they are sending multiple times more craft than that, because surly they can travel light-distance scale distances, but can't quiet work out flight in our atmosphere? Are they incredible, or incompetent? I also love your assumptions about their flight systems as if it is fact.