I think that the people over at DARPA have finally gone crazy. With the plan to embed chips in soldiers brains, now this has been taken one step
further by attempting to turn soldiers into animals. Giveing them 6th senses and helping prevent them from being killed.
This is the final straw before our military turns into mindless drones that are impervious to most conventional attacks.
This is coll and scary at the same time.
Kill-Proof, Animal Esque Soldiers - Darpa Goal
DARPA, the Pentagon's way-out science arm wants to make soldiers stronger, faster, and generally "kill proof." The key, the agency believes:
Getting humans to act more like animals.
For years, DARPA has been pushing to boost soldier performance. Today, at the opening of DARPATech, the agency's bi-annual conference, program
manager Michael Callahan just announced a new effort to take that research even further. He calls it "Inner Armor."
The project has two main thrusts. The first is to enable soldiers to work better in extremes -- high altitudes, brutal heat, and undersea depths. In
each of these conditions, Callahan notes, there are animals that handle these environments well. The bar-headed goose, for instance, can fly for days
at Himalayan heights without taking a break. Certain microorganisms thrive in steam vents, despite the Venutian conditions. Then there's the sea
lion, which redirects blood flow and slows its heart rate, to stay underwater for hours.
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