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Originally Posted by Rausch
Not if it were significantly more advanced than what he was previously exposed to.
And considering his credentials that's very possible...
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Originally Posted by keg in kc
You're assuming they're not skilled enough to do it without giving anything away.
FTR I'm not saying this is what happened. I don't think it is. But I do think it's a very real possibility and probably has happened in other cases.
They're at least 50 years ahead. If you look at something like the SR-71, we're talking about something Kelly Johnson developed almost 70 years ago. And we don't even really know what the next thing after the Blackbird was (assuming there's more than just drones and satellites, which I do assume). If their tech development has equalled or outpaced the PC boom of the last 20 years, we're probably talking about some Star Trek looking shit at this point.
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Keg makes an excellent point that kinda ties into yours, doesnt he, Rausch?
If military tech advancement even remotely resembles the massive gains achieved in something like PC's, then wow yeah... the Navy's magnetic rail gun they've been talking about? I bet it passed its trials looong ago, they just put out this "just now sea tested" story for cover.
Something even better/worse? is surely right behind it and already doing very well in tests.