Area 51 is an aeronautics test site, just and Edwards AFB is. I don’t know if they admit it, but it’s pretty obvious. Specific systems they test there are anyone’s guess. If you search for Area 51 in Google Maps, you can see it.
Exactly what did I say I believed in? You’re just talking in circles and deflecting the conversation that you started with me in different directions.
Great. Good. Fine. Thanks. I was originally talking with you about “truth”. I’ll assume SCIENCE has never considered anything to be true (a scientific truth, if you will) that turned out not to be correct because SCIENCE is apparently infallible. If that could happen, though, then that scientific truth would not be the actual truth. That was my point, not that I believe in a flat earth, or ghosts, or that I’m “anti-science”, or blah, blah, etc., whatever else I said that someone can quote part of and drag out of context.
I am still waiting for a reply sent to Fish Carburetor Company to see if it would increase the power of a 1952 Hudson Hornet.
The Hudson stock carbs are fine for me!
Ooohhh yeah… J2 dual carb option Hudson staight 6. Very cool!
No, those Fish Canadian carbs only turned VW Beetles into fire-breathing muscle cars–while simultaneously doubling their gas mileage.
Science is about finding the truth. Someone makes a guess, then experiments to see if they guessed right. If not, they modify the guess and try again. After some refinement and success, others might try to duplicate that success. Lots of success leads to theories, and an overwhelming amount of success leads to laws. Even then the laws might be flawed. Newton’s laws of motion are an example. They work until stuff moves too fast, then fall apart. That’s when Einstein’s laws of relativity take over. They don’t explain everything, and still need some modification. Scientists devise tests to find those changes, still trying to find the truth.
I once had to rebuild one of those 308 c.i. Hudson sixes. The pistons are the size of coffee cans!
No…You can’t prove it…PERIOD. You may have seen something, but to automatically assume it MUST BE A GHOST is absurd. Just because you believe something to be true doesn’t mean it is. All you or anyone else knows right now is that you might have seen something that you can’t explain. Nothing more. It’s the same with UFO’s. The “U” in UFO’s means UNIDENTIFIED. It does NOT mean EXTRATERRESTRIAL.
Quoting the late Physicist Carl Sagan - “Something this extraordinary needs extraordinary proof.”
There is an identification chart for UFOs. I was at Edwards when, still secret, an F117 crashed, much speculation it was a UFO because the crash site was surrounded by AF security.
I don’t think telling @weekend-warrior he didn’t see what he believes he saw is going to yield anything productive. Time to let it go.
There have always been unidentified flying objects and no one has denied that. However. UFO =/= alien space ship.
Yes, the Hudson Hornets were winning Nascar championships after the days of the flathead were supposedly over because of the Advent of the Olds and Caddy V8s in 1949.
I often wonder if turbocharging could have solved the flathead’s problem of not being able to get a high enough compression ratio.
Kinky Friedman wrote about his encounter with a ghost at a hotel in San Antonio
There are two rooms in the Menger into which some maids will enter only in pairs, like animals at Noah’s ark, because of recurrent ghostly activity. There have been a number of sightings of Captain Richard King, the founder of the King Ranch, who liked the hotel so much he died there in 1885. The front desk occasionally receives late-night inquiries from guests regarding a maid wearing a lace apron who ignores them. The desk always tells the guests the same thing: “Maids haven’t worn those lace uniforms in eighty years.”
Maybe it was the combination of Old Grand-Dad and mango ice cream, but I woke up from a little power nap at three-seventeen in the morning and knew that something was wrong. A beautiful young woman with a bandanna around her head was floating at the foot of my bed. She did not look like Willie Nelson, and I knew it wasn’t a dream. I sat bolt upright and shook my head vigorously in a vain effort to will the vision away. She began swaying slightly and motioning at me with her hands and her dark, flashing eyes. It was definitely time to leap sideways. After I hopped out of bed, I followed her across the room, where, after a two-and-a-half-minute eternity, she floated into the wall and disappeared.
At dawn I called Ernesto. “That’s our Sallie,” he told me cheerfully. “Our Sallie?” I asked. “She’s probably our most frequently sighted ghost,” he explained. “Sallie White was a pretty mulatto chambermaid at the hotel. She often tied her hair back with a bandanna.” This made me a little nervous in the service; I had not told Ernesto that fact. “And she was shot by her jealous husband,” he said, “on March 28, 1876.”
Flathead Ford V8s have a following, belts driven superchargers are not uncommon, I imagine if one searches enough you will find someone who has turbocharged a Flathead.
Quite a few turbo flatheads judging by a quick Google search.
That is a possibility, but Hudson’s biggest problem was the absence of a V-8, in an era when customers were craving those engines.
Their management’s HUGE mistake was to sink millions of $$ into the development and production of the slow-selling Hudson Jet compact, rather then developing a V-8. While the company might not have survived in the long term, I believe that they would have been in business for many more years if they had developed a V-8.
In a case of too little, too late the 1956 Hudson did get a 250 ci OHV V8.