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One just needs to google "Pentagon black budget trillion" to find a ton of articles about finances for secret programs. Here is one:

See for Yourself: The Pentagon's $51 Billion 'Black' Budget

It happened before and it is happening right now.

During WWII US was secretly pouring money into project Manhattan to make atomic bomb. Cost of project was $1B in WWII money and it was consuming 10% of the total electricity produced in US. Not even a vice-president Truman new about it and had to be briefed after Roosevelt died.

Since US economy was 3 times bigger than either British or German economy, that would mean that Britain or Germany would need to spend 30% of their electricity output to produce the atomic bomb. Nobody in divided Europe was capable of doing it.

So, there is a chance that metric propulsion exists. There are some rumors to the effect that work is done on the metric propulsion, coming from weapons development programs. But that's all, just rumors.

But its doubtful that there is a secret space program, because military would have more pressing need to spy on foes rather than to fly to nearby starts to check if there's life. Even technology exchange would make no sense, because aliens would laugh at our technology. It would be like technology exchange with Victorians, if it was possible.

<blockquote data-quote="DROBNJAK" data-source="post: 268345" data-attributes="member: 8760">One just needs to google &quot;Pentagon black budget trillion&quot; to find a ton of articles about finances for secret programs. Here is one:<a href="https://www.wired.com/2012/02/pentagons-black-budget/" target="_blank">See for Yourself: The Pentagon&#039;s $51 Billion &#039;Black&#039; Budget</a>It happened before and it is happening right now.During WWII US was secretly pouring money into project Manhattan to make atomic bomb. Cost of project was $1B in WWII money and it was consuming 10% of the total electricity produced in US. Not even a vice-president Truman new about it and had to be briefed after Roosevelt died.Since US economy was 3 times bigger than either British or German economy, that would mean that Britain or Germany would need to spend 30% of their electricity output to produce the atomic bomb. Nobody in divided Europe was capable of doing it.So, there is a chance that metric propulsion exists. There are some rumors to the effect that work is done on the metric propulsion, coming from weapons development programs. But that&#039;s all, just rumors.But its doubtful that there is a secret space program, because military would have more pressing need to spy on foes rather than to fly to nearby starts to check if there&#039;s life. Even technology exchange would make no sense, because aliens would laugh at our technology. It would be like technology exchange with Victorians, if it was possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DROBNJAK, post: 268345, member: 8760"] One just needs to google "Pentagon black budget trillion" to find a ton of articles about finances for secret programs. Here is one: [URL='https://www.wired.com/2012/02/pentagons-black-budget/']See for Yourself: The Pentagon's $51 Billion 'Black' Budget[/URL] It happened before and it is happening right now. During WWII US was secretly pouring money into project Manhattan to make atomic bomb. Cost of project was $1B in WWII money and it was consuming 10% of the total electricity produced in US. Not even a vice-president Truman new about it and had to be briefed after Roosevelt died. Since US economy was 3 times bigger than either British or German economy, that would mean that Britain or Germany would need to spend 30% of their electricity output to produce the atomic bomb. Nobody in divided Europe was capable of doing it. So, there is a chance that metric propulsion exists. There are some rumors to the effect that work is done on the metric propulsion, coming from weapons development programs. But that's all, just rumors. But its doubtful that there is a secret space program, because military would have more pressing need to spy on foes rather than to fly to nearby starts to check if there's life. Even technology exchange would make no sense, because aliens would laugh at our technology. It would be like technology exchange with Victorians, if it was possible. [/QUOTE]

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