Re: sci space policy targeted by disinformation experts?

On Mar 26, 10:16 am, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 26 Mar, 13:51, charliexmur...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Mar 26, 7:55 am, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Let us look at one topic - low cost spaceflight and a 2STO. There has
been at least one classified program "Blackstar" to do just that. It
has been abandoned. On what grounds I don't know.

There is no proof that this program existed

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst...

This is respectable journal. Nothing "kookie" about it.

  - Ian Parker

I get the impression that the USA keeps two generations of super-
secret aircraft. The Blackstar if it exists, replaced the SR-71
about the time the U2 was declassified. The SR-71 was declassified
about the time the Aurora external scramjet plane was developed -
assuming IT exists. And the Blackstar will be declassified when the
'hive' automated networked fleet of miniature aircraft, using hybrid
laser/chemical propulsive skin - becomes operational.

There is precious little evidence of any of this - just a careful
reading of the AIAA publications and what is hot and what disappears
over time - and coordinating that with what is going on in the
field.

MUFON and other agencies might be sponsored by the Chinese and other
nations for that reason. But we don't know that either! lol.

That's the trouble with too many secrets - it circumvents what we
consider to be good government - but Ken Arrow and others going back
to Condorcet - don't believe good government is possible on even a
theoretical level! lol.

This doesn't make governments evil, it does however pose a common mode
threat to efficient government as more and more programs gain the
dross of secrecy and the market place and the public is denied the
public benefit of the technology in a world that increasingly doesn't
really benefit THAT MUCH from keeping the technology secrets.
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