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Originally Posted by GatorB
Think of it like dog years. If the government says 10 years it's probably more like 30. Show me one thing the government has ever done on time?
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I've actually heard the opposite. Supposedly the government/military is usually around 40 years ahead of the public technologically. Ben Rich, who was the director of Lockheed Martin's SkunkWorks said this shortly before he died:
"We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity?.. anything you can imagine we already know how to do.? - Ben Rich