I guess anti-gravity technology powered by zero-point energy inductors has made a lot of systems obsolete.
Why do you think all of those Mars probes were lost? The CIA has been there for decades. They were getting too close to being discovered, and blasted the probes with Mars-based rail guns. I mean, c'mon, did anybody really believe that "meters instead of feet" story...
Dang. What a horrible time to run out of tin foil...
sailing the dirac sea, are we?
If you only knew what's going on in the AG field...as to the MEG/zero point energy field, the problem is PEOPLE, you don't just give whole atomic bombs worth of energy to everyone...Actually, back in the 1980's a small slice of the aerospace community had the EMSL concepts all worked out(ElectroMagnetic Space Launch). The best idea was the quenched superconducting rings that got the sabot/10 kg projectile up to 5 mps in a 300' to 500' cannon-length. You probably don't know that one pound in LEO is worth(mv^2/2 + mgh)all of 4 KWH, about 40 cents at 10 cents/KWH. That's 16 times cheaper than a 39 cent stamp for a 1 ounce letter. NASA charges $20,000+ to deliver that same # to LEO. Thus in the late 80s the USSR collapsed, and with it SDI/star wars funding...and NASA killed EMSL, no business(esp with such a horrendous mark-up)ever funds the competition.