What do you think nasa, the dod, etc (not even including international think tanks) have been spending TRILLIONS of $ on for the last 70 yrs?! To go to the moon?
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I believe most of their budget is classified, which means I don't know in detail how that money is spent and neither do you.
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Satellites, gps, AI, computers, ...and stuff we haven’t even seen yet (microwave weapons, lazer guns, anti-gravity tech). Nano tech is kinda old news. I’m sorry, youre a little naive, in this area.
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The first part of your list is real enough, but the second part is just modern-day folklore. Do you have a visitor pass to Area 51 or something?
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Personally I believe those stories are folklore for several reasons. First, and mainly, because I've never seen it, nor do I know anyone who has, who is credible. Am I supposed to believe Bob Lazar got a tour of an alien spacecraft in Area 51 just because he says so? Don't get me wrong, I love Coast to Coast AM as much as the next guy, but actually believing any of the stuff they talk about on there, come on, I wasn't born yesterday.
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Secondly, there is no point inventing technology and not using it. The idea that the military has created all kinds of cool toys and has never used them in any conflict, or even trained any of its rank-and-file soldiers in the use of such weaponry or technology makes no sense and is not worthy of belief.
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Thirdly, I never cease to be amazed both at the scope of the promises of new technology that the public has received for the last century or so, and at the general failure of such promises being fulfilled,
and also at the continuing gullibility of the general public in believing such promises. For example, in the 1950s people were told that very soon we'd be living in colonies on the moon and on Mars. They were told we'd have flying cars, and that they were just around the corner. Seen any flying cars lately? 70 years later, they're not any closer to reality.
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Fourthly, with few exceptions, the promises of such technology that have actually been fulfilled are underwhelming at best. AI? We've been told computers would be intelligent for years now, and yes, they have vastly improved computing power now than they did years ago, but they haven't come any closer to intelligent thought. The most impressive display of AI I've ever seen was a presentation by Google several years ago bragging about some intelligent computer program they had designed. This program could simulate a human voice well enough to convince someone it was human. They used this program, live on stage, to call a hair salon and set up an appointment for a haircut. Not exactly a dialogue of Plato that it took part in. Even then, while the person at the hair salon did think the voice was human and it did manage to set up an appointment, it still didn't understand everything the barber said and didn't quite make an intelligent response to every statement. It muddled through it eventually, and as a stunt it was a little cool, but as a display of some world-changing technology (which is how the guy presenting this was trying to frame it) it was cheesy and a little pathetic. Oh, and the guy also said this technology would be available to everyone via an app on their smartphone in the very near future. This was 2-3 years ago, and I have never seen anything remotely resembling this type of capability coming anywhere near anyone's smart phone.
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Another example is self-driving cars. For a decade now we've been hearing about how fully autonomous self-driving cars are only a year or two away. After five years or more of development, some poor idiot was killed because he had his Tesla set to "drive yourself mode" and it crashed into the broad side of a firetruck. The NTSB and Tesla did a post-mortem (of the car software, not the guy) and realized that the car couldn't detect a fire truck broadside right in front of it. It's tragic that someone died, but when people are that foolish and reckless and irresponsible with their own safety and the safety of others, to the point of allowing a car to do their driving for them, I guess the best thing you can say is that it's a good thing he didn't hurt anyone except himself.
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You'd think Tesla would have gotten just a little better over several years and several oceans of money (including your tax dollars) later, and they have, a little. But as recently as two months ago some idiot posted a dashcam video of her Tesla supposedly saving her life in self-driving mode when she was changing lanes to get onto a freeway interchange.
Jalopnik did an article on this alarming video and the car journalist said what anyone can see from looking at the video, that far from saving her life, the self-driving feature had botched a routine lane change that any human being could have performed safely and easily, and instead almost crashed her into the back end of a semi and also missed her interchange, sending her onto the wrong freeway. Why such dangerous technology is allowed on the streets at all, endangering innocent lives, is a very good question, and I suspect there is some evil agenda behind that, but that's a separate discussion.
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So no, I don't believe there is some magic sci-fi technology out there in Area 51, I don't believe technology is 50 years ahead of what is in common use today, I don't believe any of that stuff. And I certainly don't believe in mind control or any similar foolish ideas.