TheUnforgiven you read too many conspiracy theories and such. May be you awaited the world to end last year or you believe in Reptiles and Illuminates.
If anyone had the said technologies why they should not use it but hide it?
Mind that the said energy sources can be used for military purpose quite efficiently.
If we suppose for a moment that your claims are true and the said government/military had the mindset that you give them what stops them to clean up our overpopulated Planet?
In reality the US army uses 50-70 years old technology like all of the other armies in the world. Indeed they have DERPA and some innovative robotic developments but still their main force consist of comparable to the rest of the world technologies.
The truth about space shuttles is that they are old and inefficient so NASA made tender for replacement with newer and better vehicles.
In fact NASA distributed contracts to private more efficient sub-contractors to supply the ISS like SpaceX.
The government controlled research programs tend to be a way more expensive then the private controlled for obvious reasons. USA is in bankruptcy so they cut costs. Obama cut badly NASA funding.
On the other side- moon Base is not science-fiction like sub-space energy, the russians had made the modules for it and it was ready for shipping in the 70s but they found that it makes no economical sense for them to do it, check on the Zvezda project if you want.
Also note that the total cost of 12,5 years service for the russian Mir station was between 3 and 4 Billion $. This is peanuts compared with the money that all space capable nations give for their conventional militaries annually.
Now the He-3 is game changer- Russia would send their first base element Luna-Glob in 2015 note that the funding of the whole program 2013-2020 70B $ is less then the russian military annual cost ( about 100 B$ annually)
China plans to build manned base on Moon till 2020, meanwhile Japan plans to establish permanent unmanned robot base.
That is the facts the rest is conspiracy theory.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)