The actual 'cost' of this report is 'classified' and could be a threat to national security if it ever 'leaked'.

But I.E. can be configured to clear it's own browser cache upon being closed. What about in a corporate environment where one has the ability through policy to not replicate browser cache upon replication of user profile? Are we all obstructing justice? Is my configuration of I.E. obstructing justice? And how about that supreme law and the land thing, I'd say the white house, NSA, FBI and DC in general are obstructing justice by use of the national security apparatus to obscure the truth wouldn't you say there DOJ? Perhaps turning military force on the people was far more important, time to stop pulling wings off fly's, you are all grown up now but still acting like punks. Then again, the Pot/Kettle thing fully applies.

Correction, the AQM-60 Kingfisher was capable of mach 4.3 and did it in 1951.

Under OXCART, which is a program that was named conceptually after a bulldozer by the way and was shared between USAF/CIA but run within CIA SR, we had a mach 5 capable unmanned aircraft prior to the development of the SR-71 and even predated the U-2/A-12. But that was my father's side of the family, my mother's side was with the North American X-15 gig.

If you have efficient and reliable aircraft style access to space, then you have a platform to test zero G propulsion systems.

Not that expensive at cruise above 80k feet. I have intimate knowledge of that craft because my family was involved in that and it was my great uncle Jack that cancelled CIA SR in 1964 on account what happened to my grandfather on north shore Tahoe back then. The program had an ultimate goal of escape velocity and a goal of mach 10 for 1970. Kelly Johnson was behind the JP-7 fuel and J-58 mods. That plane was a building block to the actual JFK space program, the one we never got and yes my grandfather was a short list guy.

Would have been different if supersonic/hypersonic were adopted mainstream as commercial flights could have broken through the 50k foot flight ceiling and this would have prompted aircraft style access to space. A lot changed in 1963-4, and that left us behind like ~50 years in aerospace/aviation. The Concorde would have been way better price wise to run if it could have broken through the 50k foot flight ceiling and that would have greatly changed ticket cost, but it was actually cancelled over a blown tire and obviously a design flaw as that is what caused the engine failure.

There is very little (none, really) demand for supersonic passenger transport, and in any case this kind of research has been going on for 30+ years now.

Yes, that is likely due to the lack of available brain trust of the CIA SR and subsequently the OXCART program(s) and this relates exactly to why the programs were cancelled. Living down around Palmdale for the last 10 years I get the feeling as to why they mothballed the SR-71 in 1999: They didn't spend enough time on it to pick it apart, gain understanding behind the creation of JP7 and the relationship to the modified J-58 ramjet. The trouble with US aerospace is aerospace is more about money than aerospace but I see that Putin is a bit pissed about that last rocket and fixing to clean house in Kosmos. This is a good sign for aerospace in Russia but they are post collapse and on the mend, the US looks to be heading into that so I doubt I'd get on a craft headed for Mars at gunpoint.

The United States is a shit hole.

It is exactly the way the people that run this place want it. I am puzzled though as to why they would even care about murder, to my experience they don't really give a shit even if you give the cops evidence.

Ya'll gotta realize, selling out the country is the "cosmopolitan" thing to do, and you know what they say "When in Rome...."

There is another side to it though, the shady deals made post 1971 US bankruptcy are being broken down which means in order to maintain solvency of US finances they have to put something in their place or the government closes its doors, in this case it is corporate espionage and if they are to step back from that which they can't it all comes down. These are the final stages of collapse of the US, they don't have a way to play it straight even if they knew how.

Oh no! We're going to cause global warming on Mars now!

Fat chance on that, this country hasn't done anything really the right way since they whacked JFK and killed his original space program. Furthermore I highly doubt that the Mars gig is actually going to happen, aerospace is being privatized and this means corporations cutting corners, and that trip I sure as shit wouldn't want to buy a ticket for nor would I get on a craft at gunpoint. After they have actually reliably created airplane style access to space to reliably test zero G propulsion systems and have a working solution, then space travel might be within reach, the reality is things have only gotten worse for that. I'd wager the Russky's will do it first, the world will have to get past that thing of wanting to use the He3 on the moon for nukes rather than zero G propulsion systems.

Shhh, you don't want them to go all ISIS and start lopping heads off folks, kidnapping and burning women that won't go all PR0N for them do you?

For that, NT 3.1 is the most significant Windows release ever imo.

For that, NT 3.51 is the most stable Windows release ever imo that didn't include the NSA_KEY.

There, FTFY...

ref: http://cryptome.org/nsakey-ms-...

This happens every day, mostly state department approved and even planned 50+ years ago. You don't want to go down the rabbit hole there now do you? It would make you a target too.

I.T. is the field that is splitting hairs when it comes to privacy and security, if TOR beats the NSA someone gets fired or their budget cut, not really the folks one wants to scorn and the people know it. So innovation is dead there. I think the last statement in the "Lord of War" holds true, "Never go to war with yourself", kind of late now though a decade later ya think?