Free DARPA Software Lets Gamers Hunt Submarines

coondoggie writes "If you have ever wanted to go torpedo-to-torpedo with a submariner, now is your chance. The crowdsource-minded folks at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rolled out an online game that lets players try to catch elusive, quiet enemy submarines. According to DARPA the Sonalysts Combat Simulations Dangerous Waters software was written to simulate actual evasion techniques used by submarines, challenging each player to track them successfully."

Comments

"But they said"

[stonecypher]

Anyone who's read Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card, is now fidgeting nervously.

Re:"But they said"

[Jeremi]

That was my first thought -- "How do we know this isn't a trick like in Ender's Game?"

Only because it's too obvious. When the government really wants people to unwittingly direct battles from afar, it releases the software under its other label, EA.

Greetings Starfighter

[JoeMerchant]

You have been selected to defend the Frontier from Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.

Dear Slashdot mods: demand original source links.

[goodmanj]

The Slashdot post is about a cool game website. It has a link in it. Where does it go? Not to the game, but to Network World's article describing it. This happens ALL THE TIME, and it's is no coincidence: article authors are using Slashdot to drive traffic to their own sites. Network World in particular does this *constantly*.

Refuse to play along. Slashdot moderators should reject articles which don't link to original source data. "Scientists publish interesting paper" should link to the Nature journal article, not to Bob's Science Blog. "Company releases new geek toy" should link to the vendor's website, not myawesometoyblog.com. Make Slashdot an information source, not a spam factory.

Re:Dear Slashdot mods: demand original source link

[Ruke]

I don't necessarily see a problem with this. Certainly there are abuses; I'll grant you that. However, I don't have a subscription to Nature, and I don't have the experience necessary to interpret Biology that "Bob" does. If the article linked has a decent analysis of the subject matter, I'd say that it's often more valuable to me than just the source data.

Global Thermonuclear War

[DesScorp]

I was wondering what would happen if we were *really* in a war with someone like Russia, and you just THOUGHT you were playing a game, but come to find out you were really controlling some defense system, and just killed a few hundred people in the real world.

Greetings, Professor Falken. How about a nice game of chess?