{"id":113106,"date":"2020-09-16T17:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/alien-technology-almost-useless"},"modified":"2020-09-16T17:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:24:33","slug":"alien-technology-almost-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/alien-technology-almost-useless","title":{"rendered":"Alien Technology \u2014 Almost Useless!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alien-technology-almost-useless2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Returning to the theme of what might be dubbed \u201cUFO Realism\u201d I would like to address a topic that exercises the minds of a lot of UFO conspiracy theorists, namely, reverse engineered alien technologies.<\/p>\n<p>First, is there any evidence at all that any technology we currently have has any extraterrestrial element? For example, one famous claim by Colonel Corso is that much modern technology was derived from the Roswell Incident. To quote the Wikipedia entry the list includes \u201c<em class=\"\">\u2026particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers, integrated circuit chips and Kevlar material<\/em>\u201d, not to mention the transistor itself.<\/p>\n<p>The initial problem with these claims is twofold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to the theme of what might be dubbed \u201cUFO Realism\u201d I would like to address a topic that exercises the minds of a lot of UFO conspiracy theorists, namely, reverse engineered alien technologies. First, is there any evidence at all that any technology we currently have has any extraterrestrial element? For example, one famous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}