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They opened a Pandora's box.

I worked for the NRL a couple decades ago. They do pretty cool stuff, much of it classified, but cool nonetheless. I envied the four guys I met who worked in a lab where they spent all day inventing experimental small flying machines, some autonomous, some radio controlled. Those guys basically got to enjoy a hobby they were passionate about and get paid for it. One told me he would never leave that job even if he was offered higher pay to do something else.

I cant even imagine. I could see how that would be a really fun job.

LOL OK everyone heres an unlimited budget. Just make the coolest crap the world has ever seen.

Naval Research Lab is still investigating cold fusion. And they own a patent on a device that looks very much like the tic tac UFO's recently reported.

"In December 2018, the U.S. Patent Office approved one of the strangest applications in its 231-year history, from a Navy engineer who was confident he could design nothing less than a physics-denying craft that could fly at massive speeds, not just across the sky but into outer space and even under the ocean."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-navy-try-to-build-its-own-ufo

I can envision the situation at home. "See you later honey, I want... er, HAVE to go to work."

The best way to communicate in a clandestine manner are ones that provided plausible deniability and ease of use. Dead drops and one time pads are great but VPNs and TOR are far more easy to implement and can be just as effective.

This is awesome. That's a type of vehicle I've thought about for a while. Something that's aerodynamic And hydrodynamic. I was wondering when we'd see something like that.

Anything in the public like that is either trolling and or other bullshit. It is also good counter Intel to trap stupid spies/ track Intel flow.

Was a full stack developer in a role that left me as a one man show. Lots of business involved, shit I don't care about. I just like to program.

In my new role on an actual team with actual PMs, coding is all I do. If I can't fix it with code, it isn't my job. And I love it.

Do something you love and it won't feel like work.

Well, as much as cold fusion became synonymous with bad science. I think fusion at the nano scale is more promising than the designs that try and recreate conditions on a star. Stars are incredibly slow at burning their fuel. So sustaining the heat and pressure without all the mass will always be hard to sustain efficiently.

Using charged plasma to accelerate air and supercavitation would allow airships to be nearly frictionless. So, glowing craft seems very likely to me.

The microwave thing, not sure. Right angle interference pattern that causes a motive force as a side effect? I could see that but it wouldn’t be super fast— ultrasonics might work in air, but, probably not with a lot of thrust.

I am skeptical of the reliability of The Daily Beast as a source for this, particularly since the links to the alleged patents don't work, and I was unable to find those patent titles in the Google patents search engine. According to the Wikipedia article on the inventor, these patents are likely intended as hoaxes to mislead adversaries.

I could have sworn it was two-fold. The other part being an open source of not easily tracked down communications for dissidents in non-friendly places.

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In your linked article, it says an engineer at NAVWAR Pautuxent River, not NRL, had filed the patent

I feel like it's the worlds biggest honeypot trap.

Years ago I ran into the little brother of a friend of mine. He was wrenching for GDLS. When the LAVs came back off lease they got to build concept vehicles with them. Like tinker toy tanks.

One had a HIAB on the side that loaded pre stocked "modules " into the hollowed out rear section. The idea was you could load a machine shop, or a medical bay, etc. Not nearly functional, but concept mind you.

That was easily 20 years ago, and just the other day my wife sent me a picture out her office window of an LAV swim testing in the harbour with a HIAB arm.

I love not working

Not remotely true in the slightest, some might be operated by LE, but literally anyone can set up an endpoint.

As for FBI owning most of the illegal sites, if they seize them they might continue to operate them, but they clearly do not operate 99% of the markets, animal abuse or child abuse sites, hence why people are getting arrested for running these sites.

Not sure why you're stating that as fact when it's provably false

Of course we understand every word you just said

Apologies. My wife reminds me of that periodically.

GDLS = General Dynamics Land Systems

LAV = Light Armoured Vehicle

HIAB = is a commercially available series of hydraulic lifting mechanisms.

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