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I'm not a consipracy theorist and I would guess that's what happened. I read last year in Aviation week that both Boeing and Lockheed Martin were working 'propelantless propulsion' so I would guess that if the USAF were developing a system out of 'gravity sheilding' that they wouldn't want a civillian agency poking at it in full veiw.
I agree with Soph, even if nanotech never reaches the nanite assembler stage, which I am hopefull about, it will be as revolutionary in all sorts of ways. The difference between now and 2023 will be as big or bigger then the difference between 1945 and today. I have hope that all this change could finally bring about the true start of the space age by the middle to late 2020s.
Yes, mankind is a virus and we should all be exterminated....you know agent smith, you and your neo-marxist, anti capitalist friends ignore history and reality.
If you really beleive that practice what you preach and don't breed so as not to contribute to the over population by us worthless destructive humans.
I am sure I will see the use of nuclear weapons in anger in my life time, but in a limited sense, not end of the world, third global war sense. I hope I am wrong, but that's just the fealing I get. I think the most likley event will be that Iraq attacks Isreal with NBC and the Isrealis retaliate against Baghdad and possibly the Palestinian Refuge camps with thermonuclear devices. I could also see us using tactical or limited stratigic devices against North Korea and or China in a premeptive capacity if the worlds political climate stays the way it is.
Again I hope I am wrong
Personally I am really excited about the prospect of a renewed NASA nuclear program, especially if they are looking at using nuclear engines in launch vehicles. NTR power is the key to building SSTOs and getting cheap acess to space in the near term.
I was kicking around the idea of using a fission reactor to power a aray of laser for a pulse fusion engine. Would it be feasible for a fission reactor of launchable size to power the large lasers required to bring a pellet or deuterium/tritium to ignition?
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