How easily can the government hide spoopy weapons projects nowadays? It seems that with the ease of leaks in the modern era it would be difficult to keep large operations under wraps.
Have there been any rumblings of wacky, advanced, super secret weapon systems under development?
I'd imagine any time they shut down a big stretch of freeway for repairs would be a golden opportunity to send a few trucks up the line relatively unobserved.
Jeremiah Nelson
Some roads near KSC in Florida will have to be shut down in the near future for Starship transport out to LC-39a. That'll be fun to see.
get with the times Gramps. Musk has said that the 39a starship launch hardware is already being built. It'll be off to the side, not on the current F9/FH "pad". Details: netspublic.grc.nasa.gov/main/20190801_Final_DRAFT_EA_SpaceX_Starship.pdf It's gonna be great. 180-meter crane for assembly. 30-meter Saturn milk-stool equivalent as to not obliterate the surface. Landing pad within 39a permitter.
They just helicopter that stuff in nowadays. Roads leading anywhere will garnish unwanted attention, and when you own 85% of an entire state, you have quite a bit of leeway for out of sight stuff.
Lincoln Miller
Nice dubs and graph
Mason James
>let the sheeple believe the good shit is moved from area 51 and keep testing it there in underground bunkers Your move CIA
Jack Cox
>How easily can the government hide spoopy weapons projects nowadays? Well, they got spaceX to launch a rocket for them with a secret payload and no information on which agency was paying for it they also paid a premium to have the rocket explode after releasing the payload so everyone would think it was a failed mission. It was so fucking obvious what they had done and it wasn't even newsworthy for a full day.
Too much risk, too little reward. It's not about playing games, it's about making sure nobody finds out.
t. extremely good thinker
Austin Morgan
the second stage was seen re-entering oddly, it didn’t explode. ZUMA is the ultimate spoop, though. >no government agency claimed it >payload adapter was made in-house by Northrop >strange initial orbit. The best analysis I saw was that it’s for spying on boats >supposedly incredibly expensive
Noah Johnson
Pretty well since most of the populace is either at work, at home, or absorbed into their phones/PC's.
Adam Cooper
Extremely easily, more easier now than ever even. This is because with the oversaturation of information, they can hide actual leaks with frivolous bullshit or misc information that doesn't pertain to it at all.