synchronomy, on 15 October 2012 - 04:22 PM, said:
Now that's a theory I can sink my teeth into.
Engineered biological entities.
The perfect machine to perform the required tasks. No boredom or emotions to deal with for long journeys. Perhaps even able to put them into "hibernation" to conserve resources.
We can already see our own technology heading this way. Genetic manipulation, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology are all a first step that way...of course there would be one helluva ethics issue to overcome.
I know it's "way out there" but who knows how far ahead ET's could be. We've gone from the Wright brothers to where we are now in a short period of time.
If we had skipped the Dark Ages and jumped quicker into the industrial revolution we could have been colonizing planet around other stars by now...who knows.
They might not even need the same type of nutrition that we do or to carry bulky cargoes of food, water and so on, not if they are being designed for maximum efficiency and the ability to exist in the local environment are carry out their mission.
Sarbacher thought they were like clones or androids--and artificial life form designed for space travel--and somehow he had information about this from his colleagues at the military's research and development board.
He identified some of the scientists who were involved with the classified ET investigation, including Vannevar Bush, Johnny von Neumann ad Robert Oppenheimer--all these Manhattan Project types who already had the highest security clearances. That's how the real UFO investigation could be classified even higher than nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
That certainly explains all the elaborate security precautions that have been in place about this whole subject: the diversions, cover stories, false flags, disinformation, and so on. They wanted to study the technology, of course, and try to keep it from their rivals, and I think there were complaints even from the British and Canadians that the US was not sharing as much as it should have. That's what Wilbert Smith was trying to find out in Washington in 1950, and he did learn some things.
They were very interested in his project to detect UFOs and set up an experimental station on Mt. Palomar. I have heard that at least 40 of these detection stations were set up all over the world.