many things governement do are not done because it is good or bad for a supreme interest of the Nation, or of a big lobby, but because the worker want to avoid troubles, please his boss, get a promotion, or sometime a crazy desire by this lone worker to make world better as he imagine it. the problem is when this lone worker is a boss, he can engage an agency in something great or evil, if he succeed in making the interests of his subordinates matching his great idea.
There is no NASA/NSA/DoE/USPTO plan, just various people having various ambition, fears, and hope. fear is a great motive for most people... 2018-02-22 0:16 GMT+01:00 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>: > bobcook39...@hotmail.com <bobcook39...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Oak Ridge has LENR categorized as Battelle confidential or has a dark >> government classified program regarding LENR or cold fusion as it is >> commonly called. Their action to remove the reference is telling IMHO >> > > How do you know this? If it is classified or "dark government," how did > you find out about it? That would be secret, would it not? > > I have a low regard for the government's ability to keep secrets, and for > the quality of its secrets, because my late father was in the intelligence > business during and after WWII. He once told me: > > "if you ever get into the most secret room of the State Department, and > you open the most secret file cabinet and look in the most secret drawer, > you will find a dried up apple and an old newspaper." > > > In the movie Dr. Strangelove, toward the end the Americans ask the Soviet > ambassador where he got all of his sensitive secret information. He says, > "our source was the New York Times." My mother heard that and said "that > sounds about right." > > As far as I know, when references to cold fusion have disappeared from > government agencies, news articles and the like, that has been because > people were embarrassed by the topic, or because the top brass was > infuriated by it. That happened in some Navy research labs. > > - Jed > >
