Govt to create "super soldiers"

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http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/03_Genetic/030115.mutant.super-soldie.html

http://www.stevequayle.com/index1.html (click on the news alert box many great articles related to this)

Pentagon dark lord Donald Rumsfeld is shoveling billions of tax dollars into the research furnaces of federal laboratories and private universities across the land in the wide-ranging effort to spawn "super soldiers," fired by drugs and electromagnetic "brain zaps" to fight without ceasing for days on end. The work is being directed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)--yes, the same outfit now laboring under convicted terrorist-conspirator John Poindexter to build the "Total Information Awareness" network that will allow the government to monitor the electronic records and communications of every citizen.

The DARPA "war fighter enhancement" programs--an acceleration of bipartisan biotinkering that's been going on for years--will involve injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies: the need for sleep, the fear of death, the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings.

The research is "very aggressive and wide open," says Admiral Stephen Baker of the Center for Defense Information. Indeed, the U.S. Special Operations Command envisions the creation of "iron bodied and iron willed personnel" who can "resist the mental and physiological effects of sleep deprivation" while relying on "ergogenic substances" to "manage" the "environmental and mentally induced stress" of the battlefield. Their bodies juiced, their brains swaddled in Prozacian haze, the enhanced warfighters can churn relentlessly, remorselessly toward dominion.

And the term "creation" is not just fanciful rhetoric: some of the research now underway involves actually altering the genetic code of soldiers, modifying bits of DNA to fashion a new type of human specimen, one that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days and nights on end. These mutations will "revolutionize the contemporary order of battle" and guarantee "operational dominance across thewhole range of potential U.S. military employments," the DARPA wizards enthuse.
 

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Actually I saw pictures in Time or one of those such mags, one of the tiny articles thats like a quarter page. Anyway it had a picture of the "super soldier" uniforms. It looks terrifying, but reading about it was pretty cool. However, it costs like an arm and a leg to make just one, so I doubt it will be coming true any time soon. I wish I could remember which magazine it was so I could find a link so you could see the picture. I can just see it now, our army in these uniforms that look like war mongers from another planet (wait we basically are anyway right?) marching down the streets of small thrid world nations...
 
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There is a vast difference between "intelligent uniforms", which protect from all sorts of stuff and have all that fancy communications options and have the drugs avialable in case soldier gets hurt and acutalyl genetically manipulating humans.
Besides this is nothing more thandelusional rantings of a tinfoil hat wearer, because there is no way to actually change the genetic information in EVERY cell of a human being.
Even if scientists discover such a method, it would be quite unlikely to actualyl proceed on grown people, because, -duh- they are grown and no amount of genetic information changing will change the shape of the skeleton or hte muscles. Witohut this option, no enhancing of soldiers...
(Now we are again at the series DArk Angel and Manticore project. The military will just pay some women in getting pregnat, administering those drugs for gnetic engineering and then train super soldiers. Some of them will escape and one female will meet a famous undergroundf cyber journalist and....)
 
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Just think... super human soldiers to aide in America's imperialistic endeavors. We'll conquer the world, I tell you!


HAHAHAHAHA!

;)

I stopped reading at "brain zaps." Sounds like the premise for a B science fiction flic. Actually, I think it was made into a B science fiction flick.

The Dark Lord Donald Rumsfield is a tricksy guy.
 
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jhessel said:
click on the news alert square (many great articles)
*hands jhessel a sarcasm detector*

Edited because somehow when I combine all of jhessel's ideas I get called on being excessively sarcastic. For some reason they just read like utter nonsense when put together. Fancy that!
 
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Blanton911 said:
Actually I saw pictures in Time or one of those such mags, one of the tiny articles thats like a quarter page. Anyway it had a picture of the "super soldier" uniforms. It looks terrifying, but reading about it was pretty cool. However, it costs like an arm and a leg to make just one, so I doubt it will be coming true any time soon. I wish I could remember which magazine it was so I could find a link so you could see the picture. I can just see it now, our army in these uniforms that look like war mongers from another planet (wait we basically are anyway right?) marching down the streets of small thrid world nations...
Ah yes, the Objective Force Warrior combat suits. This is truly my favorite project that is being worked on right now. They are going to use nano technology to weave certain fibers and armor for the soldier, along with making much of the inner armor able to go from liquid to solid in a split second. The helmet is full of high tech communication devices, maps, scanners, and different vision modes, such as night vision. Each soldier will be digitally linked together in this system, and will be pinpointable on a digital map by every friendly soldier/commander/air support vehicle. It will monitor the health of the soldier, apply drugs and pain killers when shot, and automatically make a tournaquet around a wound. Some designs have a wrist mounted mini rocket launcher, which looks very cool. Plans are in the works of creating a translucent system to the suit, which could make a soldier a lot harder to see. Think of the movie "Predator". Muscle augmenting systems within the suit will allow the soldier to jump higher, run faster, and be stronger. Its projected debut will be in the mid 2010's.
 
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hehe there are these mini umbrella things that will open on the suit and cover it so that it will deflect any shots fired at it. looks cool in a freaky let's take over the world sort of way.

hehe well i didnt read the op.... just saw super soldier in the title.... i have a tendency to not read long posts...
 
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water_ripple said:
Excerpt from a UN resolution on approaching Millenium Goals...

Article IV. Protecting our common environment ...(one of several)

• To ensure free access to information on the human genome sequence.

www.un.org/millenium/declaration/ares552e.htm
That's to prevent diseases not to create super soldiers. Anyway, if the UN wanted super soldiers why would they give everyone access to the genome?
 
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High-tech project aims to make super-soldiers

By Fred Bayles, USA TODAY
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It was once the stuff of science fiction movies: soldiers equipped with high-tech gear that made them stronger, swifter and smarter — invulnerable to bullets and able to survive the harshest conditions.
On Thursday, the U.S. Army and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled a joint project that generals and scientists said could make fiction a reality within this decade.

The new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT will use a five-year, $50 million grant from the Army to develop tiny machines that are the size of molecules to give U.S. military personnel an edge on the battlefield.

Some of the ideas being explored include battle suits that are embedded with tiny devices that can seal against chemical attack, administer immediate medical care and even — no joke, scientists say — give soldiers the power to leap small buildings.

The growing field of nanotechnology draws from the worlds of biochemistry, physics, materials science and electrical engineering to create devices no bigger than a few molecules. The devices are linked in the same way that computer chips are wired together to perform tasks, from changing the color of a fabric to changing shape and size.

"There is a lot of nanotechnology research being done around the country, but nothing as concentrated as this new facility," said A. Michael Andrews, the chief scientist for the Army's Office of Acquisition, Logistics and Technology.

The opening of the eight-story research center had the flavor of a trade show combined with a convention of Star Trek enthusiasts. Soldiers modeled simulations of what future uniforms might look like, and exhibition booths displayed the latest in body armor, night-vision technology and micro-medical devices to monitor a soldier's vital signs during combat.

MIT researchers showed off some of the projects they have been working on since the grant was awarded last year. In one lab, visitors saw a process that wraps polymers around individual fibers in fabric to make clothing impervious to water. In another, visitors saw a muddy liquid containing metal molecules that turn solid when exposed to a magnetic field.

Ned Thomas, a materials scientist who is director of the nanotechnologies institute, said the material could be used to create a lightweight body armor as thin as paper but as strong as steel. It could replace the 40-pound flak jackets that troops now wear.

Among the projects:

• Tiny sensors embedded in helmets and clothing that could give soldiers the ability to sense an enemy sneaking up from behind.

• Miniscule sensors and drug dispensers in uniforms that could sense a soldier's condition and treat injuries. Scientists are also developing microscopic coatings that would protect soldiers from chemical and biological weapons.

• "Hinge molecules" that open and close like a door hinge when given an electric current. Material made from them, called exomuscle, can contract with 10 times the power of human muscle. Scientists talk of possibly putting the material in gloves, uniforms and boots to give soldiers superhuman strength to leap over high walls.
An interesting related article from USA Today. Maybe they are looking at developing super-soldier combat suits after all, eh?
 
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