[thermodynthrway]

Not a big believer in traditional conspiracy theories. But, there's a lot of evidence that the US military has a lot more than they let on.

I mean, GPS, the internet, strong encryption (look up history of DES). Much of what we take for granted came from black or semi-black US military projects. Leaked out I guess, sometimes literally.

God knows what's out there now, but UFO sightings are a reasonable place to start. Hypersonic transport. Plasma stealth. Nuclear engines. EMP, railguns and laser weapons.

What's made public is a tiny fraction of what's already out there. Terrifying but fascinating at the same time.

Funny that we already have weapons powerful enough to end the species but advancement continues.

Most people don't realize, but patents important enough are, and always have been, immediately been appropriated secret. A little known purpose of the patent office is to keep the lid on anything truly ground shaking.

And that's where my conspiracy theories start. There's so much out there kept from the rest of the world. I guess in 20 years or so we'll know what they've got now

[benjohnson]

Here in the Pacific Northwest there's secret project that I estimate thousands of people know about by now based on the scope of it - I found out because I'm doing the IT work for one of the subcontractors. The project is almost done.

There's nothing about it on the internet. Absolutely nothing. Not even a hint.

[thermodynthrway]

Not surprised, but you might want to delete this. If there's nothing on the internet but this post I would keep quiet.

I use long lasting throwaways but it's trivial to find me. If nobody has heard about something you haven't either. As much as I don't like mysterious technomagic I understand the reasons, I'm just really curious

Edit: just for the luls I'll guess that it's a giant radar/bunker complex. Russian/asian nukes tend to come from the Northwest amiright. Probably in Oregon or maybe Alaska. Either missle defence or early warning

[benjohnson]

Sorry, I'm not going to spill the beans. I haven't even told my wife. My main point is that there are secrets that can be kept by large groups of people - I'm am frankly surprised myself, but I guess I shouldn't be.

Have Blue was kept well hidden for a long time for example - it's hard to imagine for me this was flying around during the Disco era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Have_Blue

[thermodynthrway]

Exactly why I said 20 years! The hopeless diamond. I would still delete this if real. Even though you didn't give away anything of substance it's enough to be marked a traitor