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How to Build a Flying Saucer
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How to Build a Flying Saucer After
So Many Amateurs Have Failed
An essay in Speculative Engineering
by T. B. Pawlicki
At the end of the nineteenth century, the most distinguished scientists and
engineers declared that no known combination of materials and locomotion could be
assembled into a practical flying machine. Fifty years later another generation of
distinguished scientists and engineers declared that it was technologically infeasible for
a rocket ship to reach the moon. Nevertheless, men were getting off the ground and out
into space even while these words were uttered.
In the last half of the twentieth century, when technology is advancing faster than
reports can reach the public, it is fashionable to hold the pronouncements of yesterday’s
experts to ridicule. But there is something anomalous about the consistency with which
eminent authorities fail to recognize technological advances even while they are being
made. You must bear in mind that these men are not given to making public
pronouncements in haste; their conclusions are reached after exhaustive calculations and
proofs, and they are better informed about their subject than anyone else alive. But by
and large, revolutionary advances in technology do not contribute to the advantage of
established experts, so they tend to believe that the challenge cannot possibly be
realized.
The UFO phenomenon is a perversity in the annals of revolutionary engineering.
On the one hand, public authorities deny the existence of flying saucers and prove their
existence to be impossible. This is just as we should expect from established experts.
But on the other hand, people who believe that flying saucers exist have produced
findings that only tend to prove that UFOs are technologically infeasible by any known
combination of materials and locomotion.
There is reason to suspect that the people who believe in the existence of UFOs
do not want to discover the technology because it is not in the true believer’s self interest
that a flying saucer be within the capability of human engineering. The true believer
wants to believe that UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin because he is seeking some kind
of relief from debt and taxes by an alliance with superhuman powers.
If anyone with mechanical ability really wanted to know how a saucer flies, he
would study the testimonies to learn the flight characteristics of this craft, and then ask,
“How can we do this saucer thing?” This is probably what Werner Von Braun said
when he decided that it was in his self-interest to launch man into space: “How can we
get this bird off the ground, and keep it off?”
Well, what is a flying saucer? It is a disc-shaped craft about thirty feet in
diameter with a dome in the center accommodating the crew and, presumably, the
operating machinery. And it flies. So let us begin by building a disc-shaped airfoil,
mount the cockpit and the engine under a central canopy, and see if we can make it fly.
As a matter of fact, during World War II the United States actually constructed a
number of experimental aircraft conforming to these specifications, and photographs of
the craft are published from time to time in popular magazines about science and flight.
It is highly likely that some of the UFO reports before 1950 were sightings of these test
flights. See how easy it is when you ‘want’ to find answers to a mystery?
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时间：2024-11-23
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