Declassified NASA Footage Reveals Mysterious Alien Spacecraft in Orbit

[GirlWithWolf]

Edit: Sorry off topic I thought I was in general chat thread. 🙄

It seems like there are a lot of people that come here that don’t know how to filter out the content they don’t want to see. I read the rules when I joined but I don’t remember seeing a “how-to” post (sorry if I missed it). Maybe it would help to make one? Something like I do-

1) Click on the forum or even sub forum of the ones you want to follow. Click “watch”, then choose to get an email or not.

2) When you visit click on the hamburger, then the drop down arrow next to ”forums”, then “watched forums”.

That gives quick access to only the forums you want to follow and you can easily see if there is a new post.

For example I follow general discussion, NA ndn artifacts, music, movies, New Mexico, Texas, and a couple of others. There’s always something new in ones like Today’s Finds and What Is This, so I don’t need to follow those to see the new ones, I just go to forums then click on those.

 

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[AstralDruid]

Are you aware that NASA passes on it's inventions and technology to the American public?

Here's just a few things we would not have today if not for NASA:

CAT Scans
LED lamps
Home Insulation
Wireless Headsets
The Laptop Computer
A Computer Mouse
Nike Air sneakers
Cell Phone Cameras
Memory Foam
High Power Solar Cells
GPS

Nasa also helps small businesses research new ideas and develop innovative aeronautics, human exploration, science, and space technology solutions.

Hi Dizzy Digger
I'm afraid i will have to take issue with some of the claimed 'NASA inventions' that you have listed..
Let's start with CT scans,, Have a little look at a man called Godfrey Hounsfield, in and around 1971 a quick scan of his work might clear things up.. led to his Nobel Prize in 1979.... NASA not involved.. sorry.

Maybe have a look at the inventor of the computer mouse,, a certain Douglas Englebert in 1968....

The Russian inventor Oleg Losev on creating the first Light Emitting Diode (LED) 1927,, further developed by others long before the 1958 creation of NASA..

The Laptop computer, I guess you are referring to the GRiD compass machine, used not created by NASA in the 80's.. Created by GRiD Systems Corp,, later to be Radio Shack.. anyway several years before there was a French company , not just as small but still portable, the Osborne R2E,, and others before the NASA use of the GRiD..

I could go on....
So i think that the claim that NASA hands down it's inventions to the public is , in these cases anyway, total nonsense.
perhaps they helped develop some of these things, but to claim that they invented them is ridiculous .. Sorry to say.

So, I stand by my original claim,, that NASA has contributed very little, for the investment of 68.5 Million dollars per day that they receive in federal funding... over 68 million dollars a day ... I mean i get the whole national pride thing etc... and employment, business generated etc... but i reckon that money could be put to far better use for the American people,, hard working, tax paying citizens, being scammed for this nonsense... I know a few folks will get their back up about me saying this,, maybe they have memory foam mattresses !!!

maybe it is alright ,, Michael Jordan did well out of it ...

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[ARC]

I convinced if you drink enough Rum you will begin to speak Klingon.

 

[Red-Coat]

Hi Dizzy Digger
I'm afraid i will have to take issue with some of the claimed 'NASA inventions' that you have listed..
Let's start with CT scans,, Have a little look at a man called Godfrey Hounsfield, in and around 1971 a quick scan of his work might clear things up.. led to his Nobel Prize in 1979.... NASA not involved.. sorry.

Maybe have a look at the inventor of the computer mouse,, a certain Douglas Englebert in 1968....

The Russian inventor Oleg Losev on creating the first Light Emitting Diode (LED) 1927,, further developed by others long before the 1958 creation of NASA..

The Laptop computer, I guess you are referring to the GRiD compass machine, used not created by NASA in the 80's.. Created by GRiD Systems Corp,, later to be Radio Shack.. anyway several years before there was a French company , not just as small but still portable, the Osborne R2E,, and others before the NASA use of the GRiD..

I could go on....
So i think that the claim that NASA hands down it's inventions to the public is , in these cases anyway, total nonsense.
perhaps they helped develop some of these things, but to claim that they invented them is ridiculous .. Sorry to say.

So, I stand by my original claim,, that NASA has contributed very little, for the investment of 68.5 Million dollars per day that they receive in federal funding... over 68 million dollars a day ... I mean i get the whole national pride thing etc... and employment, business generated etc... but i reckon that money could be put to far better use for the American people,, hard working, tax paying citizens, being scammed for this nonsense... I know a few folks will get their back up about me saying this,, maybe they have memory foam mattresses !!!

maybe it is alright ,, Michael Jordan did well out of it ...

AD

It’s true that most of the things oft-quoted as NASA ‘inventions’ are improvements on existing inventions and/or things that NASA has pioneered the use of, enabled commercialisation of, and so on.

Nevertheless, as of 2024, NASA had filed 2,602 patents of which 2,002 had been granted and 1,104 were still valid. It’s arguable to what extent these inventions have benefitted mankind in general, but the two most-used NASA patents are for:

Tendon-Driven Manipulators
That is, robotic arms and such, for which the patent has seen application in industrial manufacturing & maintenance, repetitive task automation, emergency services & operations in hazardous environments, and personal assistance & caregiving.

Charging Of Devices By Microwave Power Beaming
That is, charging of electrical devices without a cord attachment, for which the patent has seen application in hand-held devices such as phones and electric toothbrushes, RFID tags, induction cooking hobs, electric vehicles, and surgical implants such as pacemakers.

Note that NASA does not ‘hand down’ it’s inventions. They charge for use of their patents until expiry of the patent protection. There’s a one-time royalty fee of $2,500 for a research license which does not allow commercial sale. To take a product to market then requires a commercial license which requires an initial fee, an annual minimum royalty, and an additional ongoing royalty based on volume of sales. Those fees are negotiable and also depend on the degree of exclusivity wanted by the user.

 

[robertk]

Note that NASA does not ‘hand down’ it’s inventions. They charge for use of their patents until expiry of the patent protection.

Seems like if an agency runs off public funds (tax dollars), whatever they invent should be public domain. (I know it isn't, but it should be.)

 

[Red-Coat]

Seems like if an agency runs off public funds (tax dollars), whatever they invent should be public domain. (I know it isn't, but it should be.)

I would agree. Pretty much the only thing that NASA gives for free is the use of its images, but only for personal, educational and other non-commercial use. Only images from NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes are generally copyright-free and “you may use them in any way you want, as long as what you are doing is legal and otherwise permitted.”