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This might be just a honeypot. The US Navy makes some noise about some stuff that has a slight chance of being possible, the adversary must react, and the react
by credit_guy 6y ago
This might be just a honeypot. The US Navy makes some noise about some stuff that has a slight chance of being possible, the adversary must react, and the reaction is potentially along the lines "how do we infiltrate that part of the organization, what assets do we have that can initiate contact", etc. If the end result is that the US Navy identifies some spies, the cost of half a million is absolutely nothing.
- Zigurd 6y agoThe superconductor patent (I have not read the other ones) reads like a science fiction writer's extrapolation from real published papers on room temperature superconductors. If one wanted to create disinformation, to smoke out spies or whatever reason, about US secret capabilities this seems like a plausible approach.
- bewaretheirs 6y agoIt also brought to mind this probably-apocryphal story (from Anton Braun Quist, "Excuse me... what was that?" (1982), a collection of engineering tall tales): "Secret Weapons" "The U.S. engineers perspired over their task, rapid development of several identical, extraordinarily complex machines. The work was finished on time, and the machines were flown away to be parachuted into various parts of Germany. It turned out that all the devices were discovered by the Germans." "Then the German engineers perspired, throwing heavy manpower and resources into examination of these new weapons. What were they for? They were designed to occupy a large number of German engineers; that's what. And they did."
- rozab 6y agoI was thinking more along the lines of all the effort the US put into ICBMs, mind control etc. in the cold war because they believed Russia had a huge technological advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap