Quote (Abstraction @ Fri, Dec 12 2008, 12:08am)
they developed the blackbird in the 1970's or something, and it's still one of the fastest planes(mach 3)
it would be pretty interesting to see what they're working on now..
The Black Bird was designed in the 1950s and actually deployed in the early 1960s. Groom lake is a distraction while other more clandestine bases exist with very advanced technology. Do not think for one second what is being shown in the public arena is the spear head of technological advancement.
Very advanced technology will not be based on anything mechanical in the classical sense, I.E. combustion motors, gears, hinges, etc, but rather on the manipulation of gravity and quantum properties not yet fully understood by our current science.