# Government conspiracies and secret technology.  Why don't they just tell us???

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**Created:** [November 11, 1999, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-conspiracies-and-secret-technology-why-dont-they-just-tell-us/17304 "1999-11-11T11:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![BIGmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a698b9/32.png) [@BIGmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BIGmatt)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/government-conspiracies-and-secret-technology-why-dont-they-just-tell-us/17304/61 "2000-01-24T14:17:00Z")

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Hmm, possibly.

What I want to know is that if, say, the government developed a new propulsion system, why don’t they sell it to a civilian aircraft manufacturer as soon as they develop something better. That way they’ll stay one step ahead and improve the quality of air/space travel around the globe.

Even if they only sold/gave it to NASA they’d still be helping everyone by cutting back on the polluting exhasts & inefficiency of ‘modern’ rockets.

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