Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed.

nulluser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pills that actually make your wang the size of an elephant trunk while making it prehensile.

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• Unlearned9545@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Burninator05@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The DoD is still the DoD. DoW is its preferred name.

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    • AniZaeger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Preferred by the same people who think that trans individuals using their own preferred names are committing a literal crime

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      • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        it’s always been the department if war, them finally taking the mask off is actually a good…makes seperating the good from the bad a hell of a lot easier

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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reticulated splines

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nonsense, Maxis did it for years

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• GhostPain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Successfully dividing by zero.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  *lights lighting up on NSA dashboard*

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• HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My flying boots, for one.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably a really, really good engine.

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  • turdcollector69@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fusion power.

    It would upend the petrodollar and basically the entire global economy.

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Often it will be a specific new process for making, say an unusual alloy or critical component.

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