Re: 2005 car in 1955

Mike, I do have an RPG setting where this happens.
It was a very believable scenario.

I do believe that an alien spaceship crashing today will not be easly
reverse engeneered.
It can take centuries to that.

One of the hardest aspects of the spaceship will be its engines. We
earthlings does not have even the basic phisics to deal with these
kinds of engines. Supposing FTL exists, it is obvious that depends on
exotic matter, bending dimensions or a lot of collorfull wild ideas.

On that scenario it will explains the large budgeted nuclear
accelerators.

Your idea of a "today's compatible" computer aboard the roswell ship is
very sound to me. I does not have knoledge of well funded ($$$) exotic
architecture computer projects (quantum, organic, optical, etc). Which
means that the roswell ship should have semiconductor based binnary
computers. Otherwise the american goverment will fund studies of
another kinds of architectures.

I does not believe that a crash would destroy all the computers,
microcontrollers and data pathways in a ship like that. We also know
that stelar navigation can not be done without computers. They are
easier and very cheap to produce it is likely the ship holds a lot of
computers, for navigation, for entertainment and a lot of other
interessting stuff.

The only exception I can think of is a hibrid solution where the simple
things, the cheap things are maded with semiconductor tehcnology, and
the mainframe is make with another technology... like quantum or
organic. In this kind of scenario is very likely that the mainframe is
completelly destroyed while most of the ship systems (semiconductors)
remained.

But I does not believe that the software has been accessed, otherwise
we would have a far better windowing interface or some method used by
aliens. This would being saved xerox, apple and m$$ guys a lot of time.

Lucas

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