Posted by SumitonJD on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/Identified-tp1497333p1497342.html

Okay Pam, I have discussed why a hand weapon laser type weapon is not a good
idea before. I know in the series GA had the UFOs firing a laser type beam
so why couldn't the aliens have a small hand held one? The U.S. military has
been working on a laser weapon system for 40 years. They now have a
operational one that is a test bed, that is to say a prototype which works
and from which a better one can be developed for use. Its big. How big? It
takes a 747 to carry it. And it takes a lot of power to run it. How much?
That of a small city. It also generates a lot of heat, not just on the
target but on the craft carrying it. So a lot has to be done to keep it cool.
Okay you say that our problem but the aliens being more advanced having
faster than light ships and all they would have got around this having on on
their UFO's that is smaller than a 747. Maybe but probably not. It has
taken us more that 600 years to develop firearms from old muzzle loading
cannons to the current state of the art. It took us only 40 years to get
from the first rockets to putting a man on the moon but we have done very
little development past that point. Just because you have the technology
doesn't mean it will continue to develop.
It was said in Identified that the aliens are probably from a dying
civilization. so they have faster than light ships with a beam weapon why
spend more money and valuable resources just to have a hand weapon that can
fire a beam?

James K.


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