I believe there are other civilizations.Spoilers follow ****. I believe it plausible that aliens would come to look around after seeing atomic explosions in 1945. The concept of neighbors being concerned about our tendency for violence makes sense. The military- industrial complex is basically the collusion of government and military contractors and that definitely happens on some level. Whether that crosses from good relationship to corruption is a lengthy topic itself and nothing in the show makes any credible accusation in that regard although this is the fundamental concept they ask you to accept.
I enjoyed the show and can accept most of the premises. They missed the mark on 2 points. First is Stan Meyer who had some working electrolysis designs, never proved to create more energy than input to his system. His patents are now public domain and while hobbyists abound, no magic energy source has resulted. Meyer was sued by investors in open court and found to be a fraud. Some hobbyists report being harassed. It's possible that the companies working on commercial hydrogen vehicles exert some unethical pressure on hobbyists working on a home conversion kit but there's no reason to believe in some military conspiracy to hide alien technology.
The show also says that Nikola Tesla tapped into zero-point-energy and shows his lightning generator as they say this, to suggest Tesla had generated energy from space- time, dark matter, whatever. This is plainly untrue. Tesla mentioned "cosmic rays" later in his life and said that he was working on an energy source that was entirely opposed to Einsteinian physics. So he had something in mind but never documented a process or created a patent.
Those are 2 points I noticed which push the show over the edge into crackpot territory. Too bad as I liked the show and as Mulder said, "I want to believe". But when clearly false statements are used to make their point, I just can't.
I enjoyed the show and can accept most of the premises. They missed the mark on 2 points. First is Stan Meyer who had some working electrolysis designs, never proved to create more energy than input to his system. His patents are now public domain and while hobbyists abound, no magic energy source has resulted. Meyer was sued by investors in open court and found to be a fraud. Some hobbyists report being harassed. It's possible that the companies working on commercial hydrogen vehicles exert some unethical pressure on hobbyists working on a home conversion kit but there's no reason to believe in some military conspiracy to hide alien technology.
The show also says that Nikola Tesla tapped into zero-point-energy and shows his lightning generator as they say this, to suggest Tesla had generated energy from space- time, dark matter, whatever. This is plainly untrue. Tesla mentioned "cosmic rays" later in his life and said that he was working on an energy source that was entirely opposed to Einsteinian physics. So he had something in mind but never documented a process or created a patent.
Those are 2 points I noticed which push the show over the edge into crackpot territory. Too bad as I liked the show and as Mulder said, "I want to believe". But when clearly false statements are used to make their point, I just can't.