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U.f.o's
How good or bad is a disc shape for flying? We all know that frisbee's can go quite far but this is because they're thrown if a ufo it had an engine on it where would it go, and wouldn't it make the disc spin around hundreds of times a minute either making everyone on board violently ill or even kill them? Surely this alone should stop the belief in disc shaped ufo's, or are they really the most aerodynamic and best shape for intergalactic travel and us dumb humans just haven't found out the secret yet?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The comical thing about this is that the first chap (a pilot) to see some airborne things he couldn't identify didn't say that they were shaped like saucers and always denied such a claim afterwards. He said that they moved through the air like a saucer would skimming across a pond.
The press then seized upon his words and distorted them.
But, lo and behold, people who "see" alien space-ships describe them as saucer-shaped. Isn't that amazing?
The press then seized upon his words and distorted them.
But, lo and behold, people who "see" alien space-ships describe them as saucer-shaped. Isn't that amazing?
Maybe those people are telling the truth, Chakka. Scroll through this lot painted long before the advent of air travel - as we know it.
http://www.2012.com.a...torical.paintings.pdf
http://www.2012.com.a...torical.paintings.pdf
What is odd about the alleged ufos in the illustrations is the casualness with which some of them occur. Some are obviously an attempt by the artist to depict god in some way influencing someone with a beam of heavenly whatever. To just put in a picture in a casual manner some apparently flying object with no mention being made in literature suggests that they have a meaning that had significance to the culture of the time but they did not depict a real event. The problem with looking for evidence to support a pre-existing viewpoint is that it will undoubtedly be found, somewhere.
The reason you spin a frisbee when you throw it is to give it a horizontal stability which is due to the gyroscopic effect. Saucer shaped aircraft have been built which did not need to spin as their attitude was controlled by the usual aircraft type control surface. There is no reason why an engine would make a saucer shaped aircraft spin if it is designed properly.
The shape of a space craft would depend on what its purpose is. If the space craft was manned and intended to travel huge distances under continuous low acceleration from a nuclear powered engine then a long thin shape with the crew as far as possible from the engine would be a good idea, but other requirements would probably modify this ideal. It could of course be made up from a string of spheres.