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How easy is it actually to reverse engineer a UFO?
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As others have mentioned it depends how close we are to their technology.
If the UFO uses technology for which we don't even have a workable scientific theory such as FTL drive we would be hard pressed to reverse engineer this as we don't understand the underlying scientific principles that makes it work, the same as someone from the middle ages wouldn't understand electricity and how it applies to everything.
It could help us boost existing technologies such as material sciences as we are able to analyse matter down to the atomic and subatomic levels ( even though only at a few specialized places).
If the UFO uses technology for which we don't even have a workable scientific theory such as FTL drive we would be hard pressed to reverse engineer this as we don't understand the underlying scientific principles that makes it work, the same as someone from the middle ages wouldn't understand electricity and how it applies to everything.
It could help us boost existing technologies such as material sciences as we are able to analyse matter down to the atomic and subatomic levels ( even though only at a few specialized places).
The notion that UFOs are alien spacecraft is a nonsensical fantasy left over from the 1950s.
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.....they are probing us and stuff!!!
Agreed.
But, just for arguments sake accepting that they're real, we'd have more success (and technological benefit) from examining their drinks dispenser.
Well, given that they've managed to get here from a different solar system and we don't have the slightest idea of how to do that, I'd say: Not very close.
Your damn right I'd shoot an alien UFO down. Either them or us, until they prove they are non-hostile, along with willingly giving up more of their technology.
Isn't "not shooting at us" how they prove they're not hostile? Also, why should they give us their tech? You realize this means you'd shoot at a Starfleet ship?
Someone has left their moral compass too close to a superconducting magnet in their quest for apotheosis.
I don't think the hypothetical aliens would risk being shot by "us". They would take all the necessary precautions not to let that happen.
If those hypothetical aliens are advanced enough to just prance around all anti-gravity-ish and inertialess they probably won't be threathened by some noisy, slow and obsolete flying machines who can shoot at best a few metal pellets or slightly faster rocket engine propelled pieces of scrap metal with some explosives at hem.
If those hypothetical aliens are advanced enough to just prance around all anti-gravity-ish and inertialess they probably won't be threathened by some noisy, slow and obsolete flying machines who can shoot at best a few metal pellets or slightly faster rocket engine propelled pieces of scrap metal with some explosives at hem.
Not necessarily. We're still vulnerable to stone knives, aren't we? Just because you have advanced technology doesn't mean that it protects you against everything. I think those aliens would try to be as discreet as possible and given their superior technology, they'd also have advanced stealth technology, they would likely succeed. UFO sightings would be the exception rather than the norm.
While inside a leopard II tank I will be totally invulnareble to stone knives.. 
These aliens do not seem to be the kind who would step outside their spaceships so...
As for the stealth thing, maybe our hypothetical UFO drivers are just teasing.. nah nah nah nah naaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Can't catch me!!
These aliens do not seem to be the kind who would step outside their spaceships so... As for the stealth thing, maybe our hypothetical UFO drivers are just teasing.. nah nah nah nah naaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! Can't catch me!!
We barely understand the alien's technology but we're willing to kill them to steal it in an uncertain attempt to reverse engineer it? This sounds like a cavemen versus astronauts debate. Humans might have the initial element of surprise but the aliens would likely eradicate the humans once and for all if they were anything like us. Expecting the aliens to be proportionate in their retaliation is naively hopeful. Those of us that they didn't kill, they might use for slaves, livestock, pets, or entertainment.
Speaking hypothetically....
Would you go out of your way to antagonize entities who have technology far beyond your own? Is there any reason to think that they couldn't retaliate?
Would you go out of your way to antagonize entities who have technology far beyond your own? Is there any reason to think that they couldn't retaliate?
The aliens might well see it as their version of 9/11. The US and its allies responded to that event by invading Afghanistan and Iraq. I can't see humans going unpunished. After all, Jesus died for our sins not the aliens'. Or if another space Jesus told them to turn the other cheek, perhaps they actually followed that dictum.
Cavemen can evolve quickly if the situation demands it. Remember "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer" from the old SNL?
Do you really think that each alien sapient species has its own Jesus?
Well, we're already assuming a preposterous level of similarity between our behavior and that of putative aliens in order to have this conversation. To assume that they might have evolved similar moral systems is no more unlikely to assume that they're interested in spaceflight. Well, actually, it's less ridiculous.
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