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originally posted by: SonofaSkunk
Didn't mean to get this thread off the rails. Talking about airplanes here. iRobots, replicators and free energy will probably hafta wait a bit longer. In the meantime, I'll use my thin little pocket sized TV/phone/computer/to monitor this thread as I travel about today. Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: EartOccupant
Which is your opinion. The company that owns the patent is going to do what's best for their bottom dollar once they have clearance from the military to do with it what they will. It's all about the dollar, and if they can develop something, and then turn around and make billions off it, they're going to release it.
There are several things that will be opened up to the public once the military reaches certain milestones with them.
There are others that won't be opened, simply because there isn't a big call for them in the civilian world at this point.
And some that would reveal too much about military operations if they were released to the public.
originally posted by: EartOccupant
How can you call for something you do not know exists????
Back to my first point: Due to military (or economic) interests some stuff will not be released.
So what exactly is the civilian world going to do with hypersonic aircraft? Allow the super rich to travel to Europe in an hour, while the rest of us poor schlubs still have to take 6+ hours. Yeah, there's a lot of call for that.
A number of things that weren't released immediately due to military considerations have later been released after there was no longer a need for military secrecy. There are things we take for granted now that started life as classified programs, that no longer required secrecy.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: expatwhite
There are several things that will be opened up to the public once the military reaches certain milestones with them. There are others that won't be opened, simply because there isn't a big call for them in the civilian world at this point. And some that would reveal too much about military operations if they were released to the public.
originally posted by: EartOccupant
Real-estate!
Breakfast in your pine gap underground aquifer oasis, play a bit of snow golf at Jack F. Paulus Skiway, and having lunch at your cabin in the near of Thule Air Base.
Now where would i buy my afternoon nap condo?
originally posted by: BASSPLYR
any more pics of the Boeing bird other than the single one posted on the last page. i don't have a membership to the where the link goes.
second question. if companies like Lockheed do make classified aircraft that until the military says so can't have the technology released into the public sector to reach its full monetary potential. sometimes for decades. do the govt pay them a annual amount of money as a way to compensate them for lost potential revenue. some of these technologies could feasibly make these corporations billions if released to the public. if I were lockheed I'd say to heck with building stuff for the govt if they're going to hamstring our profits. so does the govt give them a little (lot actually) extra to mitigate the revenue loss due to products and technology being forced into classification.
Northrop is in the process of buying Orbital ATK, who was selected to produce the engines by Boeing.
why do you think Northrop and Boeing are working together on this with Northrop if I read the posts here correctly, building the engines.
and why the entrant by Boeing when it would seem like Lockheed got this niche on lock. Boeing got a kick ass materials science dept with something new and kick ass material wise? Northrop got experience with some componant of the 'tbcc' that Boeing wants synergize with their expertese. or is lockheed so damned monopolistic that the govt said you two (Northrop and Boeing ) work together on this and give lockheed some competition knowing that as a whole it would make the whole hypersonic r&d more robust and healthy?