A Friend At JPL Says The New Mars Rover Is The Same Size As A Mini Cooper

"Lou Friedman (former head of the Planetary Society) has written a provocative article over at Space Policy Review where he accuses the Obama administration of working on plans to gut the robotic Mars program in order to pay for NASA's exciting new rocket. This is after NASA already killed the Europa mission that was to have been the next outer planet mission after Cassini."http://www.honeybeerobotics.com/about
"My father is ex military and always told me that "the military is 10 to 20 years ahead of the public in technology", in your experience have you delt with technology you feel is 10 to 20 years ahead of it's time?"
"Yes, yes its happened. Just advanced materials that you are not seeing that the government and military uses."