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I am really curious if you work for an ABC, and get high enough - do you get to learn about some "cool" things, or it's all just tedious politics/cartels. It d
by ohaideredevs 7y ago
I am really curious if you work for an ABC, and get high enough - do you get to learn about some "cool" things, or it's all just tedious politics/cartels.
It does seem to me that the number of conspiracy theories went way down lately (which is surprising, giving the proliferation of tech), whereas there is clearly stuff that's being kept a secret well, e.g. we never heard about the stealth Blackhawks until the raid in Pakistan, and only because it failed badly. Or nobody talks about plasma weapons, yet they got an effective prototype a decade ago iirc, and the project stopped reporting any news (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER).
- intuitionist 7y agoIf you get high enough, you can learn about some “cool” things just by watching YouTube. You probably don’t want to tell your government employer about it, though.
- colechristensen 7y ago"cool things" which wouldn't surprise me * Always more stealth planes, likely large drones today * Whatever that little Air Force space shuttle was doing * Hypersonic planes/drones/missiles * Disturbingly "smart" missiles/weapons/drones * Small fusion reactors already exist in production * Quantum computing already exists in production * RSA can be cracked on demand * Spy satellites can see way more than would make you comfortable * Power armor * Novel propulsion methods
- ohaideredevs 7y ago* RSA can be cracked on demand The funny thing is that this is the most disturbing one by far if true. Some of those are almost a given to me - classified stealth planes, hypersonic missiles, sats having incredible resolution, power armor, "smart"-er than known missiles.