Beyond Stealth

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:30 pm

Watching the History channels special on "Stealth" I found the most intriguing part at the end. A man was talking about secret projects akin to how the F117 was kept hidden 20-30 years ago. His source (a friend who works for Skunk Works) said, talking about 50 years into the future, that StarWars type X-fighters was a "been there, done that" project. What they are working on now is beyond what we can think about. Anyone here catch this part of the program?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:40 pm

Must of misseded that one. I watch Discovery a lot. I wouldn't be surprised one bit. I'm sure most of our technology comes from Area 51 after the crash.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 4:58 pm

Hmm...any idea on when trhis is gonna be rerun, woody?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:33 pm

Well, there is a lot of research going on in areas where the risk is enormous, but so could the payoffs: teleportation (not the entangled quantuum pair kind), FTL travel, reaching other universes, Omega Point energy, folding the universe - that sort of thing.

I doubt if Skunkworks is involved in any of that stuff, but there are undoubtedly super-ultra-secret things being worked on. Given their aerospace industry history, it would seem likely they are working on invisible planes (LCD-like surfaces), mimetic alloys (wings that change shape by applying electricity to them), planes controlled by thought, (A La that cheesy Eastwood movie "Firefox"), robotic fighters, you know, that sort of thing.

As far as BTDT for an X-Wing type fighter - well, that's just a load of BS and bluster.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:58 pm

Avder wrote:Hmm...any idea on when trhis is gonna be rerun, woody?

Here is a little more on what I was talking about. It was called "Stealth and Beyond", also the source the person talked to was Ben Rich...a Lockheed big wig. I'm not sure where to find future programing schedules for the History Channel.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:07 pm

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:16 pm

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Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:05 pm

One of these days mobius is going to start including that pic at the end of all of his posts.

Sapphire Wolf · Post by **Sapphire Wolf** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:51 pm

Tyranny wrote:

Why did you post that?

I'm just wondering

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:54 pm

because I felt like it

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:21 am

Because he wanted Mobius to STFU mebbe?

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:10 am

Because Mobius was off on one of his usual "teh future!!!11!1" rants?

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:34 am

He actually had something to say though. You guys musta missed that

Mobi is a total nutjob but he frequently posts valid information.

Top Gun · Post by **Top Gun** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:52 pm

All that I heard was Star Trek, not reality.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:37 pm

"nutjob" and "valid information" do not belong in the same sentence in regards to mobi

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:15 pm

unless the sentence is validating that he is a nutjob....

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:54 pm

Where's the tag line, "I didn't know this was the "Lets fack with Mobius" thread.

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:19 pm

STRESSTEST wrote:unless the sentence is validating that he is a nutjob....

Very true