Well, of course you would, BPL. You've seen banana skins. Besides, why pay any attention to people who tell you ridiculous things that can't possibly be true...like those idiots who thought the Earth is round, and those even bigger idiots who thought a heavier-than-air craft could ever fly or a steel ship could ever float? Sheer common sense tells you that such ideas are nonsensical.

Sorcha - Thanks for that account. I think our situation is rather analagous to that of a group of New Guinea headhunters trying to figure out how a modern airplane functions after finding a crashed one in the jungle. They would not be able to figure it out.

Neither have our brightest minds been able to figure out alien technology, though they have certainly tried very hard. And that is another reason that they don't tell the public about it. They do not wish to reveal their impotence and their relative ignorance to the World at large. They'd rather have us believe that they and their existing power structure are the most advanced and powerful entities around, which is hardly the case.