I asked a question in today's General Chat earlier, and bubble_bursts recommended I make that question and his answer into its own post, so here we go.
(first, my original question)
Forgive me, but I need to be reminded of one of the basics of this movement.
A common criticism I hear from haters is "He calls himself Q Clearance Patriot, or Q for short. Q clearance is a clearance level within the Department of Energy. What does THAT have to do with anything?"
And I've never been able to shake that question. It's a good point.
If this is a military op, why the Department of Energy?
I know there's an answer for this. I just need to be reminded what it is.
(and now the answer, courtesy of u/bubble_bursts)
Uranium One was what started all this. (Read the full board of the day of the first q drop for me details)
That is the origin of Q and that's where we are headed to disclosure in Iran. Full circle
Q drop 48 was also linked by someone in response to my question, and it looks important:
This is all very unimpressive. Gorgon Stare is only a camera array, not an entirely new technology. Salvatore Pais is a blank round. His patents have never resulted in any physical verification. His mass reduction device patent, initially rejected but awarded on the strength of US Navy official urgency, was so worthless that the Navy did not pay the fee to continue the patent protection. From all the self-promotion, I have to think that Forbes is only a hopium pusher.
You'd need to do a deep dive on his channel. It all connects. The timings, Lin's conviction, his sister and her connections, the fact he changed his name as soon as Ashton exposed him, the science Ash links to various research papers etc. It's incredible how they hide some of this stuff in plain sight knowing nobody ever bothers to piece these things together etc.
I did a career-spanning 50-year deep dive into applied physics and advanced system design, all of which works. You haven't. You take this guy at his word. No proven anything. I've heard about the Pais patents before. You can generally patent anything. Just because he patented some things has no relationship to their feasibility. (Some do, but it is not a requirement.)
I don't know who you are referring to, about timings, someone named Lin, etc.
I've done a deep dive into cold fusion, which is a legitimate topic, but the Jury has been out for 30 years. I had a direct brush with the Andrea Rossi "catalyzer", but that all disintegrated into his trademark secretiveness. Still no outcome. Not holding my breath. I predict this story will not change in the next 10 years.
By the way, I recovered what you meant by Lin's conviction. So what? Gorgon Stare was only a collection of cameras and scene processing. No nifty technology. A whole lot of "this stuff" is not hidden at all. It is often out in the open for the communities of interest (why you always see it first in Aviation Week). The man in the street is generally the last to know...and responds with "What? Isn't this supposed to be secret?"