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How did the flying motorbikes work?


Or the invisible ability too, we should have figured out both by now!

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The flying motorbike thing would be easier - all you need is to control gravitational forces or even just remove the 'mass quality' to be able to move fast as well. It would be pretty dangerous, though, and I would say impractical.

It'd be more practical to just use a proper beamship to move about (and you could then even go to space easily), or just fly around in your spacesuit normally. Involving a bike would just be cumbersome and unnecessary.

The invisibility is relatively easy, but it requires a certain type of craft. You can't have protruding objects or a boxy shape like the Vipers have for that to work, unless you want to encase the whole craft in a different, metallic 'bubble' of sorts.

It would be more practical to, again, use a normal beamship so you can just elevate or lower (what's the opposite of 'elevate' anyway?) the surface or the energy field frequency so the craft will for all intents and purposes exist closer to the etheric plane than the physical one, and thus it would be invisible to the human eyes (unless third eye chakra is used, so you could still see it with some effort).

If you make the frequency elevation subtle enough, you can probably still use heat sensitive (infrared cameras, for example) equipment to detect at least something.

'We', as people of Terra (not that I am included), have not in the public realm made this kind of technological breakthrough, but the shadowy shadow government(s) that -really- control things, did reverse engineer all kinds of craft ever since Roswell, and full well know how to do this kind of frequency manipulations and build craft and beamships like that.

There's the 'public realm of technology' that masses know about, then there's the 'hidden realm of technology', that only a select few know about - military secrets, black ops, and so on and so forth. 'Security' is a great excuse to keep secrets from people. Even the F-19 was eventually 'forgotten', because of the sleight of hand; F-117A.

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So, 'we', the people of the Universe, HAVE figured it all out. Duh.

'We', -some- people that may or may not still exist on this wretched ball of mud, HAVE indeed figured it out (if you count yourself to belong to the same group for one reason or another).

'We', the people in the public realm haven't (seemingly) figured it out.

So yes and no, we have, and we haven't.

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