Back To The Watchers Connection
Story by: Yves Adele Harlow Reporter
If you read the article called Just Who Is Really the Crazy One? written by Max and I, you would see that I made a comment on how scientists were wrong about lasers being fiction in the 1930s. Let’s think on that further.
Let’s take all those spaceship shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, and Star Wars. They all have some form of warp engine. Of course scientists, and many people for that matter, thought that it would never happen. In truth, no it hasn’t happened, but there is a man by the name of Thomas Townsend Brown who has developed a theory of gravitation that could be the basis of interstellar space travel. And he thought of that in 1923 before TVs were invented and when rocket science was just getting started. Click here or here to learn more about Townsend and his theory.
Technology has progressed very fast within the last century. Electricity has been harnessed and manipulated to be used in many different ways. We couldn’t be able to really live without it. What I mean is, we could survive without electricity and all the other high-tech things we use everyday, but it wouldn’t feel right and it would take a long time to get used to. We’ve been too spoiled by it and if something drastic happened and the world found itself without electricity, it would be a very different place to live in. We the children and some adults who have grown up with all this technology would be lost without it.
All sorts of things have been invented and we even have robots taking over valuable jobs now. If you would have said that there would be all of this to the pilgrims when they landed in the New World, who at the time were using candles to see in the dark, they would not have believed you. Up until this century, we barely had any really revolutionary inventions except for electricity. Okay, I know I’m drifting off on another subject and I have a point to this. Scientists have always been skeptical about any radical ideas and they react to warp drive and lasers in the same way pilgrims might if you went back in time and talked to them about computers. So maybe now you can understand about how much we as the human race have accomplished and how much new technology has been invented within our century. It’s not like mice can make computers, now can they?
Back in elementary you should have learned about Christopher Columbus. Remember how everyone was in fear and skeptical that Columbus could sail across the ocean to get to the far east? Do you remember why? It was because they thought that the earth was square and that he would fall off the edge of the world. Well, they were wrong. Columbus did sail across the ocean without falling off and ended up ‘discovering’ North America, though Native Americans were already living there.
Scientists also used to think that the sun and moon revolved around earth. They were absolutely sure that Earth was the center of the universe. That’s not true. Earth is just a small speck in the universe and it’s not even the center of our solar system. So obviously they were wrong about that also. No one believed that we would be able to fly like birds in the sky. Actually, we can’t literally flap wings and fly, but we do have airplanes. The Wright brothers proved all those people wrong.
So really, who’s to say that things can’t be done? If you work at anything, it can happen. You can learn how to harness electricity, build and use lasers, fly airplanes, and learn the truth of the universe. When people say that they saw a UFO, don’t immediately discredit them and say that they are lying because even though some might be, there might be others that are telling the truth. If someone says that they can make a warp engine and enable us to travel faster through space, don’t think that they are lying. No one knows everything. Ideas have to be given a chance. Sort of like the motto of police officers here in the United States, “You are innocent until proven guilty.” The motto that we should use for science is, “Ideas are possible until proven without a doubt that they can’t be done.”