The face of the U.S. military is radically changing. Technology is evolving faster today than ever before, and the U.S. military is determined to be at the cutting edge of applying futuristic technology. A lot of things that once were only in the world of science fiction are quickly making their way into the U.S. military. In fact, there are some projects in development that are so bizarre that it is kind of hard to believe that they are real. After all, creating soldiers with superhuman strength and endurance using pharmaceutical drugs, outfitting soldiers with exotic prosthetics and mechanical exoskeletons, implanting microchips directly into the brains of soldiers to give them an advantage in battle and editing the DNA of soldiers to make them the ultimate killing machines all seem more like something out of a really bad summer movie than real goals that the U.S. military should be pursuing.
But they are.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, recently released its budget for the upcoming year. DARPA has a reputation for bizarre research projects, and this year they definitely are not disappointing us. DARPA's new budget includes money for "super soldiers" with "edited DNA" and implantable microchips. DARPA explains one application for these new technologies this way....
On the other end of the size scale, a primary goal is to apply microsystem techniques to soldier-protective biomedical systems. One example is an in-canal hearing protection device that will provide enhanced hearing capabilities in some settings, but be able to instantly muffle loud sounds of weapons fire. This one example will improve inter-personnel communications and at the same time drastically reduce the incidence of hearing loss in combat situations. For these examples and many more, the goal is to bring exceptionally potent technical approaches to bear on biological and biomedical applications where their capabilities will be significant force multipliers for the DoD.
But DARPA is not alone in pursuing these bizarre new technologies. According to the U.S. Army's Future Soldier Initiative, the soldiers of the future might boost their brains with drugs and prosthetics, augment their strength with mechanical exoskeletons, and have artificially intelligent "digital buddies" at their beck and call.
The goal of these drugs, prosthetics and exoskeletons would be to give soldiers "superhuman" abilities that they would not otherwise possess. For example, the ability to effortlessly carry a very heavy weapon into battle would be a significant advantage on the battlefield.
Some of these exoskeletons are absolutely amazing. Just check out the following video news report which contains footage of a soldier demonstrating a prototype of an exoskeleton.....
But will these changes go too far? In the pursuit of creating "ultimate killing machines", will we create monsters who show no hesitation and no remorse when killing other humans? Will we create beings that are half human/half machine that have no place in society once their battlefield careers are over?
The future is going to be a very strange place, there is for certain. Let us hope that our military leaders think things out very clearly before implementing these ideas. Sometimes changes that are thought to be "good" can have very bad, and very unintended, consequences.
THIS is a fact!
Right NOW, here in TEXAS on a U.S. Military Air Force Base, they are training a “SUPER SOLDIER” called the “B.E.A.S.T.”
This is really good, but if you read this, then take this in mind D.A.R.P.A, take your time with it, make the exoskeleton look more human-like, as in the shape, and that is connected to the armor( aking the ehole thing a suit), and add some gel layers that regulate temperature and the metal to make the armor that can basically take on a caliber bullet, and figure out a way for the exoskeleton to react and move alot faster, then you can mix it with a super soldier who had its DNA altered to make him damn strong, probably stronger than the exoskeleton itself that would have its bones to be able to withstand the speed and weight of the armor, that would be smarter because of that chip thing and those also make him able to connect with the AI itself inside his mind when thinking, and that recieves the best military training of all, with years of training basically that would gain him knowledge, experience, and quick thinking that you dont need a chip for, and all those other factors, and all of it put together basically makes ( and not trying to be funny or dumb by wanting some sci-fi fantasy of mines coming to life) a soldier like thos eof the spartan project that you can read of in the book Halo: Fall of Reach, which shows you some of the ideas you have in mind, and you should see it instead of the video games since the games cant show what the main character, a Spartan,(John-117) can really do, i guess its to much and the game screen would moveto fast for the player because of the speed, and it would make the game sincerely too easy no matter the odds(which is another reason why this should be made real, not only the super soldeir ideal and the technological breakthrough, but it can really create man and women who can become hereos basically, for they would be able to do a great deal of good and make a change in the hardest times where nothing can work except military action, and on top of that they would be damn hard to take down.
I think that is intresting, super soldiers being controled by the military. I just thought they were just people making things up.
DARPA is including money for super soldiers with edited DNA and implantable microchips? What? Seriously?
While the mechnical exoskeletons would sound kinda cool, to be honest, I don’t know if a super soldier would be a good idea, mainly becuase you’d be directly tampering with a person and changing who they are.