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I heard about how the government supposedly has technology today that would be made public 12 years from now, or around that time. Meaning they had the means to create a 360 in 94, something along those lines. Anyone else heard this theory? I 100 percent believe it as new technology is never cheap.
 
Tyguy said:
I heard about how the government supposedly has technology today that would be made public 12 years from now, or around that time. Meaning they had the means to create a 360 in 94, something along those lines. Anyone else heard this theory? I 100 percent believe it as new technology is never cheap.
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i believe we have technology way advanced for our time, therefor if they released it now some ppl will freak out & that wont be a good thing.
 
I had a 360 in '94. Pwned all the other kids on the block at Halo 3 right through 1996.

You guys are noobs.
 
Saketi said:
i believe we have technology way advanced for our time, therefor if they released it now some ppl will freak out & that wont be a good thing.
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Right, thats what im getting at. How far advanced do you think we are?
 
Tyguy said:
Right, thats what im getting at. How far advanced do you think we are?
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im not too sure, but to say....The F-117A Stealth fighter was in service for six years before the Air Force admitted its existence. The super-secret aircraft was born in 1978 at Lockheed's so-called "Skunk Works" in Burbank, California which has developed many other advanced aircraft for the Air Force. Configured in the shape of a large, flat delta, or arrowhead, the F-117A was designed to be virtually invisible to radar, and difficult to spot with the naked eye as well.

Its kinda scary to imagine what we have now, can we get to the moon & back within a few hours? or to Mars withing a day or less? Its specualtion, but it could damn be a possibility.

And all this activity in space we hear them on about the spaxce staion almost complete, what if it already is complete & the missions are somewhat difference, Moon Base?
 
No. Technology is constantly beeing improved on the past experiences and needs, as well as new ideas and foreign technology. The technology in the 360 would not have been the same if 2 years earlier things had gone some other way. It maybe somewhat true for certain types of radical changes like quantum computers and neuron cpu's, they may have early prototypes of those.

Something like this is true when it comes to pure calculating power since there were supercomputers 12 years ago that could match the best home pc today.
 
The technology for the 360 has been around for decades. It's just that it wouldn't have been economically viable to mass produce it.
 
Well, seeing as it's becoming possible to create invisible materials, possibly extract zero-point energy and all that, I think we're a bit at the dawn of a new technologic revolution
 
I don't know if the saying applies to all technologies, but it goes that military technology is at least ten years ahead of its time. They either won't admit they have it until such time, or they won't have phased it out into widespread use until that time. That's what I think.
 
Kinda goes against the whole economy thing doesnt it? After all.. why would companies such as Intel and AMD be competting if they arent even really building new technology...
 
tehsolace said:
Kinda goes against the whole economy thing doesnt it? After all.. why would companies such as Intel and AMD be competting if they arent even really building new technology...
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You dont know who they are selling it to. NASA the US military etc...

The "new" technology that become availible to home PCs can very well be the results of years of effort getting the production cost down significantly.
 
Beerdude26 said:
Well, seeing as it's becoming possible to create invisible materials, possibly extract zero-point energy and all that, I think we're a bit at the dawn of a new technologic revolution
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Source? URL?
 
So, the government invents everything then?

Dumbest theory ever
 
fools, everyone knows they get their technology from reverse engineering UFO's they have hidden at area 51

reverseengineering.bmp


wow that alien language looks a lot like norwegian
 
tehsolace said:
Kinda goes against the whole economy thing doesnt it? After all.. why would companies such as Intel and AMD be competting if they arent even really building new technology...
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Because they're two completely different markets.
 
Of course they had the means to build a 360 10 years ago. But, a 360 the size of a warehouse isn't practical.

Technology is something that needs to be matured, from the University, to the Research Lab, to the production line, to the product you sell in the shop.

That maturation process takes a long time (think of it as a lengthy beta testing session).
 
They completely suck. I've used them before.
 
what the hell are scalar waves?

And no to your theory. The government would have no logical reason not to share advanced technologies with citizens. I do think that they have one or two weapons technologies stored away as top secret, but nothing MIB style, maybe some special type of nuke or a special spy plane, but nothing too serious.
 
The Avro Arrow, a jet built in Canada in the 1950's had the technology of jets nowadays (2000-2004 tech), so it was the most advanced fighter jet ever created, they supposedly destroyed it, because it was too technologicly advanced, but many believe (including me) that some people who worked on the plane stole it, and stored it somewhere safe, I'd like to believe that the Avro Arrow still exists...

Point is, that yes, the government probably has extremly advanced technology, if a somewhat public air base in the 1950's can create that type of technology, what can the government do?
 
F*ck yeah. Just last week I was playing Halo 4 at Cheney's place.
 
There was a documentary on area 51 on the discovery channel a few months ago where someone who worked for the NSA or something apparantly said:

"We have technology 50 years past what you can even comprehend."

D:
 
Government is hiding technology because if the public manages to get this secret technology, it would be too uncontrollable for the government to handle.
 
TIIMMYY said:
There was a documentary on area 51 on the discovery channel a few months ago where someone who worked for the NSA or something apparantly said:

"We have technology 50 years past what you can even comprehend."

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Well 50 years is a bit much but still. The scary thing is that if they admit that they have lasers that can shoot down missiles, EM weapons, sound wave weapons and that they are working on making materials invisible and other stuff like that, what the heck do they have top secret then ?!
 
If the government were to hold back technology it would be for some economy related cause.
 
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