Ever wonder why the technology in automobiles, airplanes, space rockets and the energy sector in general have remained basically the same since their inception?
Sure, they have evolved aesthetically, but the sector is basically beholden to internal combustion–an explosion via conventional fuel–to drive their engines. Inspired’s Jean Nolan blames The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, passed in secrecy by a bipartisan Congress, which allows the U.S. government to classify ideas and patents under “secrecy orders,” indefinitely restricting them from public knowledge.
Nolan says that among the agencies with classifying powers are the usual suspects–the CIA, FBI, NSA and DOJ. He digs into the little-known law and how it also pertains to classifying info regarding mapping, charting and geodesy, which is the science of measuring and understanding the Earth’s shape, size, orientation in space and gravity field.
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