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Here's the issue I have with that. We have some of the greatest minds on earth working for institutions like NASA,etc. Then we have private industry like SpaceX

Here's the issue I have with that. We have some of the greatest minds on earth working for institutions like NASA,etc. Then we have private industry like SpaceX, etc pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible with Space flight and Rockets. You can even go further and include Russia and China in this equation and what they have learned throughout the decades. And yet there seems to exist some very special "Organization" that can develop and implement things that we can't even explain, the disparity is crazy to even consider. It's like developing a F18 Fighter during the time of Ox carts. Doesn't make sense to me.

b3morales 5y ago
We know that the NSA has generally stayed some years, perhaps a decade or two, ahead of public knowledge. Why not other agencies? Granted, physical objects and manufacturing are harder to keep under wraps than papers and bytes. It seems to me that the situation, rather than being either "sensor glitches" or extremely advanced tech, could be a combination. Tech that's a few years ahead, observed under poor conditions.
akyu 5y ago
I can only speculate, but I'd imagine that anyone working in areas that touch on the technology that could lead to these kinds of capabilities get scooped up quietly, and no one else really knows. From the outside it would look like the research was a dead end. This kind of thing has happened before.