The Next UFO You See Might be Green!
You just can’t make up news like this. A Dutch company interested in building flying discs says they will be used for “greener” commercial air travel. Forget the cumbersome winged beasts of the present—apparently we need to follow in the footsteps of technologically advanced extraterrestrials.
"I want to get rid of the image of a cylindrical body with wings," said Etnel Straatsma of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
"Ever since the Boeing 707 first flew in 1957, airliners ... have changed very little in their basic appearance," Hardeman said. "However, because future improvements to the basic design are getting harder to make, economic and environmental pressures mean that the case for radical change is getting stronger."
Straatsma heads the recently-formed CleanEra project, which aims to design an "ultra-eco-friendly plane" that releases 50 percent less carbon dioxide per passenger-mile than current airliners.
The project's "greenliner"—depicted in design illustrations as a flying saucer—would also reduce other pollutants and noise, in line with recommendations from the European Aerospace Commission, ACARE.
Straatsma and other engineers are toying with lighter materials and considering eco-friendly alternatives to passenger jets. Basically, they’re aiming to overturn long-held notions of flight engineering.
I’m going to get yelled at for even considering this, but could this radical technology be reverse-engineered from alien spacecraft like the ones said to have been confiscated at Roswell? Pretty unlikely, but after watching the reverse-engineering of Megatron in the Transformer’s movie last month…my imagination is running wild!
Conspiracy theorists have long claimed that governments “seed” reverse engineered alien technology to various unrelated firms in order to make the “breakthroughs” seem natural.
That may be a bit far-fetched, but after the top Roswell PR officer’s deathbed affidavit was released recently—I’m a lot more open-minded about the possibilities! Mostly though, I’m just excited about the prospect of taking my dream vacation to Greece in 10 years via flying saucer.
Posted by Rebecca Sato
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mmmmm... that was quite the hard left turn from Wishful Green avenue to Conspiracy street :)
Posted by: Dave K. Welch | July 25, 2007 at 05:15 PM