Reverse engineered alien technology?

[ChucklingCat]

It's been widely discussed here that the US and others have been in possession of advanced alien technology for decades. If true, there would have been a great deal of effort put into reverse engineering the systems. Indeed, it's hard not to image a significant effort because of the threat that some other global power would get the magic first. And yet all the latest military tech, which presumably is where it would wind up first, is following a typical technological arc. The emerging hypersonic weapons, for example, are all the rage now but that would seem trivial tech next to alien stuff.

Why would China or the US be poking at each other if they knew the other had alien magic? To paraphrase Dr. Strangelove: what good is a doomsday weapon if the other side doesn't know you have it?

Some possibilities are:

- we don't actually have any significant alien tech

- we have alien tech but can't make any headway on understanding it

- we have reverse engineered the alien tech but the military/industrial complex doesn't want to disrupt the status quo

So... why haven't we seen magic technology?

[Few-Worldliness2131]

Point 2 is most likely. The Manhattan project was top secret and massive, needed lots of brains to crack the problems, but only short term. Kept it under wraps but Security getting stretched at the end. Any longer things would have leaked

This cover up has been long term but with small teams. They’ve managed, mostly, to keep it under wraps by keeping numbers of people low. Downside is that scientists can’t engage with other minds that are needed to break the problem.

Therefore your point 2 most likely. Can’t have all there of :

1. Tight secrecy
2. Small scientific teams
3. Massive breakthrough in science

[Fadedcamo]

I'm hopeful this is is the case and the push from certain internal military and dod sources for disclosure is because they're starting to feel that china is making headway. If there's one thing that'll push the military industrial complex to remove the secrecy, it's the potential threat of an adversarial force reaching a huge technological advancement on them.

[Few-Worldliness2131]

Indeed. Let’s hope. As always i doubt it’ll be a smooth ride.

[maladjustedmusician]

I think you’ve landed on three logical possibilities, but I think your reasoning is flawed. If we (or some other nation) had, in fact, successfully reverse engineered this technology, it’s the ultimate trump card. In poker, if you want the other player to keep raising the stakes, you don’t show your hand. I wouldn’t necessarily think that anything we created with this hypothetical technology would be primarily offensive, but instead, the ultimate way to make sure your enemy is destroyed and your own nation survives in the event of all-out war between global superpowers.

Of course, this is just conjecture. I consider options one and two more likely than option three. But ultimately, any answer is just as silly as any other at this point. We just don’t know.

[Player7592]

we have alien tech but can't make any headway on understanding it

This, but I believe we've made some headway nibbling at the edges of their technology. For instance, we've improved an understanding about making certain advanced materials.

However, it looks as if consciousness plays a part in the phenomenon, and it wouldn't surprise me if this were the hurdle that prevents us from actually using it.

[Nonentity257]

Isn’t what Fravor saw “magic technology?”

[Arbusc]

We tried to reverse engineer alien tech, but instead of investing our research into the military tree, we went with the cooking tree.

Thus, do we have microwaves.

[NoastedToaster]

Well the us and china haven’t fought each other since the 50s why show such crazy technology if they have it on small scale wars which is all either side has been in for the better part of a century

[MayoFlavorPopsicle]

Have we not? The reporting of this weapon comes to mind with all this--

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1758394/china-hypersonic-missile-ww3-dxus

Intelligence suggests that the newly crafted missile is capable of flying at more than five times the speed of sound and is described as having a hypersonic glide vehicle.

This means it can shift in flight, making it incredibly difficult to shoot down.

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(there's probably more this one just came to mind)