You can set up a genetic engineering lab for under 5000 bucks in your garage, and I would prefer you not being able to google how to DIY some super-ebola, thank you very much.
Truman’s house and Presidential Library aren’t too far away if I need to egg it.
Patents Granted To Two Formerly Secret Inventions
I have now fallen into a hole and will research this indefinitely.
Here’s a story about a guy who figured out how to track stealth planes: Congratulations, Your Genius Patent Is Now a Military Secret
Also in 2016, there were 5,680 patents according to this site. Yikes. That’s a big increase.
I mean, if some dude invented a neutron bomb in his garage, how would they know until it’s too late? 🤔
They do have networks of radiation sensors and reporters because of the guy who built an atomic device out of smoke detectors, giving himself and others radiation poisoning. Also, there have been some nuclear weapons go a tiny bit permanently missing, and suitcase-size dirty bombs were a huge scare for a hot minute, etc etc.
Honestly it’s really shocking we escaped the past century alive.
secrecy orders have been imposed not only on inventions affecting military defense but also on those alleged to threaten economic stability, with critics noting that many such restrictions rest on speculative or unproven harms.
But also
The law applies broadly to all inventions in the United States for which a patent is filed or granted (35 U.S.C. § 181).
So if you really do have a society changing invention - one that could upset this capitalist or neoliberal world order - it is your duty to publically release it and not patent it
They’ll suppress it unless they can make money off it like crypto or “AI”.
In which case some rich cunt will patent it and nuke the internet of its details
Good luck scrubbing anything off the internet with even a little social momentum. If people think its good enough to share, then it’s never fully getting scrubbed.
That is not how the internet works
No.
Anyone want to bet that there are inventions that are great but would cost some people serious money and that’s why we’re not seeing them?
It looks like they fuck over inventors.
Most of these appear to be for government projects such as with the Department of Defense and the NSA.
Sometimes, a regular invention outside of government contacts gets labeled with this and the government don’t pay for it. The inventor isn’t allowed to talk about it so they get fucked out of any income.
Not taking that bet. From the linked wikipedia page.
According to reporting in Wired and Slate, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has at times considered applying secrecy orders to inventions deemed disruptive to established industries.
You may be sure that there are times when they did more than consider it.
Oh good, apparently my late father’s Folding Crossbow isn’t a restricted patent…
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4926834A/en
I still posess the prototype, albeit a bit damaged now.
that’s cool. Seems a bit ‘busy’ for something that should be foldable
Honestly it is a bit busy, like feature creep.
The lower stock and left bow are unfortunately now broken, but I want to do my best to restore it eventually.
I’ve already collected feathers and a new rifle scope, I just need an antique Volkswagen leaf spring…
Yeah you think this is a witch stew, but it isn’t. These are the parts I need to properly fix my dad’s invention.
Yes this video destroyed me and made me realize that any life-changing awesome invention would surely be suppressed
Like an air cooled fiberglass engine that runs on water, man!?
Water? Brother that’s 50’s tech.
We’re on to Cold Fusion reactors the size of your fist, SRO high-entropy alloys, and room temp superconductors.
:D
Really though.
I’ve been saying it for a while, even if we figured out fusion, it wouldn’t see the light of day.
The petrodollar would tank in value because fusion is obviously superior to gasoline/petrol.
It would be the end of the US currency if petroleum were to be replaced.
I’ve been saying it for a while, even if we figured out fusion, it wouldn’t see the light of day.
Fusion reactors would be absolutely massive, hugely expensive, centralized facilities that provide something of great value for very little labour input. They’re the PERFECT tool of capitalism.
See I can’t see this being true, because if we figured out how to do it, and let someone else do it first, they would get all of the gains first.
That’s a valid counterpoint that I’m definitely too intoxicated to properly address but idk I think you cooked me on that one.
6543 inventions are currently suppressed.
Like what?
/s
Often it will be a specific new process for making, say an unusual alloy or critical component.
Probably a really, really good engine that doesn’t need gasoline.
Fusion power.
It would upend the petrodollar and basically the entire global economy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them have to do with rocketry or bioweapons and other things to make them work. I’ve designed things personally that are not destructive themselves but aid in testing or improving accuracy of hypersonic vehicles. The DOW (formerly DOD) did not allow us to apply for patents due to national security.
The DoD is still the DoD. DoW is its preferred name.
Preferred by the same people who think that trans individuals using their own preferred names are committing a literal crime
Pills that actually make your wang the size of an elephant trunk while making it prehensile.
Username checks out
Reticulated splines
Nonsense, Maxis did it for years
Successfully dividing by zero.
*lights lighting up on NSA dashboard*
My flying boots, for one.
