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- From: Jim Rogers <jfr@fc.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.alien.research,sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: SaucerZealotLogic ( was Re: Skeptics stay away from Hill's UFO Book)
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 15:14:17 -0600
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- Michael Edelman wrote:
- > Bill Peterson (billp@io.com) wrote:
- > : >
- > : >Say, Brian, what do you think the chance would be of recovering intact
- > : >bodies from a crash or explosion of sufficient energy that "indestructible"
- > : >materials were ripped to shreds?
- >
- > : This is easily explained. The object was in low performance mode, just
- > : hovering or moving slowly at low altitude. It was having "engine" trouble.
- > : The "engine" or part of it blew up, and scattered little bits all over.
- > : However, the majority of the craft, and the occupants,fell about
- > : 20 feet into the desert, sustaining burns and fractures.
- >
- > A power source capable of sending a craft across the universe at near
- > light speed explodes, and doesn't vaporize a small town?
- >
- > And a craft capable of that journey can't take a small explosion?
- >
- > No fail-safe backups for interplanetary craft...?
-
- To give the SaucerHeads their due here, whatever craft the Betelgeusians might
- use for excursions around a planet are not necessarily the same ones they'd
- use for interstellar travel. Small launches from a larger main ship, perhaps,
- with an energy supply scaled to the purpose (which, to get to/from orbit, is
- still nothing to sneeze at).
-
- Jim
-