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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Because governments WILL sit on information/technology. It is not the government's mandate to develop new technology or bring new products to the market. That is the domain of free enterprise and the driver behind free enterprise.
Here's an explanation. Our atmosphere is alien to them. The craft use electromagnetic engines for propulsion and guidance and our atmosphere can be extremely volatile with discharges that can disrupt or disable the systems. Kind of like how a jet can have its systems taken out during a lightning strike. I mean, what the #### is up with our pilots. Used to flying in our atmosphere but occasionally they just fall out of the sky, with regularity (five crashes a day according to the FAA). How is that possible?
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I don't trust the private sector that much either to be honest. They only care about technological advances if they can make money from it. An example of this is how digital cameras were invented in the 1970s, but camera companies buried the technology because they made too much money from selling film. I am sure the same things happen with other technologies like electric cars, computers, medicine, and so on.