Michio Kaku is interviewed about the Navy videos, China/US space race, etc.

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  1. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    I am introducing this transcript ( of the video, link provided below for the full interview)
    and have included only the beginning part, in which Kaku appears to refute the conclusions drawn by Mick West regarding the Naval videos.

    But, the long and short of it, he appears to agrees with me that they are compelling, and that and the Navy admit they exists and we do not know what they are, they might be aliens, they might be who knows what? We just don't know. But they key point is this: the military now leaves open the question of what they are, whereas they used to deny they were anything but ordinary phenomena.

    And, in the interview, Kaku makes no mention of ordinary balloons, and anything banal, which is interesting, because Mick West claims the opposite.

    Kaka appears to be talking about the videos, but in fact, he actually seems to be relying more on the testimonies of pilots we have seen in various interviews, where they are describe the sightings of 'tic tacs' as 'zigzagging', 'descending 80,000 feet in a manner of seconds' and that sort of thing not reflected in the views but only in pilots testimony. That being said, Kaku seems pretty sure of himself, insofar as they are not banal things.

    Yonden Lhatoo, of "Talking Post" (TV show of the South China Morning Post, a News journal in Hong Kong) interviews Michio Kaku on UFOs, China-US space race.

    YL: So, what does theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku make of it

    MK: If there really are extraterrestrials, there's a probability that they
    have been observing us for many decades.


    YL: Professor Kaku has dedicated his life to finishing Albert Einstein's "Theory of Everything" while exploring some of the universe's important questions along the way....

    MK: Who eventually loses if a war were to break out in outer space?

    YL: ...and how will the universe end?

    MK: Mother Nature has a death warrant on the human race, as well.

    YL: In this episode of Talking Post, we sit down with the co-founder of
    String Theory, author of the "God Equation", to discuss UFOs, China in space, and more.


    YL: Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and futurist, so nice of you to join us, You're someone I've always wanted to talk to for a long time. So, let's start
    with the UFOs, aliens among us, that kind of stuff, and I'm referring, specifically, to the recent release of videos by the Pentagon, showing these
    unidentified...they call them Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. These aircraft
    that seem to defy the laws of physics, they're captured on camera by these
    military ---these ships and planes. So where are they coming from? What is it, are these aliens? Are they among us?


    MK: Well, you know, in the old days, we relied on hearsay and eyewitness accounts ---somebody saw something in the sky. But now, we have mountains of videotapes taken by United States Navy Pilots. We've analyzed the frame by frame. This is a gold mine of data. We now realize that they travelled between Mach 3 and Mach 20, up to twenty times the speed of sound. The G-forces they experienced when they zigzag is several
    hundred times the force of gravity on the planet Earth. They can descend
    80,000 feet within a matter of just a few seconds. And, apparently, they can
    even dive underwater.


    Now compare that with modern technology today, we can barely hit Mach 20, with what is called a hypersonic drone. We think that the G-forces are so great that there's probably no person inside these craft. A person would be crushed by the g-forces of zigzagging in the air at that rate. So, we think they are probably cybernetic - part mechanical, part biologic --who knows for sure?

    But, then the question is, what are they? Well, it turns out that you're pushing the very boundary of what Russia, the United States and what China can do. All three countries have admitted that they are working on hypersonic weapons. But this is cutting-edge technology. The United States abandoned hypersonic technology two years ago because they were unstable -- when you zigzag, you could easily spiral out of control. And so,
    the military said, well, let's put that for a later date.


    Now, of course, all three, all three powers, China, Russia, and the United States are very much interested in hypersonic drones. But, you see, these
    flying saucers, on the other hand, they go back decades; way before hypersonic drones were being thought of by the military.


    So, what are they? Well, the short answer is: we don't know. Maybe they
    are some kind of top-secret thing that we haven't heard of. But the United States military has now admitted that, quote: "They are not ours".


    YL: What does that mean?

    MK: We don't know what that means

    And the interview goes on from there, and into China/US space issues.

     
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    Wow - I wouldn't have expected Kaku to say "I don't know" concerning aliens.

    Normally, he accepts every woo woo idea that is ever presented.

    This doesn't necessarily mean he is a total crank. I'm sure he has produced some interesting ideas (though there are many who totally doubt that!).

    Usually, his general direction in any conversation is to take any idea he's presented to some even more otherworldly level. It isn't to question the idea, it's more to extrapolate what he hears as a starting point for his ideas.

    I've just never seen him constrained by reality like that. I wonder if he just didn't want to talk on that topic. Maybe he wanted to move.
     
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    The guy's a THEORETICAL physicist! How bad would he have to be at his craft to deny anything?
     
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    Theoretical physics can seem really strange to the uninitiated, but it does include a LOT of disagreement.

    It isn't crazy town. There ARE rules.
     
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    Sure, they have to learn their pure physics first .. but once they're set free from school and publically funded for research (without commercial constraints), there's no stopping the crazy train on its way to crazy town.

    Know any physicists? I do .. and every last one of them is nuts - even a dear friend who's been in applied physics (the most sane iteration) for decades.
     
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    That's a pretty harsh claim against Kaku. Can you provide evidence?
    Evidence?
     

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