DARPA Working on Spidey Sense for Soldiers

anti-human 1 writes to tell us Wired is reporting that DARPA is developing a new optics system to help soldiers identify threats earlier. "The most far-reaching component of the binocs has nothing to do with the optics: it's Darpa's aspirations to integrate EEG electrodes that monitor the wearer's neural signals, cueing soldiers to recognize targets faster than the unaided brain could on its own. The idea is that EEG can spot 'neural signatures' for target detection before the conscious mind becomes aware of a potential threat or target. [...] In other words, like Spiderman's 'spider sense', a soldier could be alerted to danger that his or her brain had sensed, but not yet had time to process."

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Re:Win != done

[Lurker2288]

"Pulling out of Iraq now would result in the country collapsing into civil war and prolonged violence; better (for both the citizens and the occupying soldiers) to stay and finish the job right, THEN pull out when a decent self-supporting gov't is in place."

Darn right. And at this rate, I can be proud to know that my children, not yet born, will have the opportunity to serve their country by fighting for stability and democracy in Iraq. God bless GW.

Radioactive Blood On Their Hands

[Doc Ruby]

Now if the Pentagon would just invent some way to properly treat soldiers injured in our wars, like they say they do at Walter Reed Hospital.

Though I guess first some Republican thinktank will have to invent a way for honoring that commitment to our veterans to be as profitable to Bush cronies as some new battlefield toy that some medieval terrorist can disable for $0.49 and their life.