>>I don't know if you were just clarifying (thanks if so) or disagreeing. I hope ME is scientific enough for you. A college roommate was an ME major. He barely graduated due to enjoying his college years immensely, and literally went to work as a rocket scientist. His first job was designing rocket missile systems for Hughes Aviation. The work was so classified he never could tell me exactly what it was.
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>And you believe him ...

Yup. I lived in a beach town near L.A. at the time, too, and frequently got together with him and a guy he worked with. They never said anything that would violate their NDAs but from shop talk remarks they made at times I knew it was for real.