The Defias Blog

This afternoon, my attention was brought to an article posted at FOXNews.com, titled “Army Working on ‘Ghost’ Soldiers, Mind-Controlled Guns.” Normally, I wouldn’t find anything like that spectacular since I enjoy the show Future Weapons on the Military channel (check local listings, heh). This article, however, mentioned World of Warcraft! I had to read for myself what was going on here and overall, I think the whole thing is quite interesting.

Among the ideas being pursued by the US Army researchers are elf-regenerating body parts, intelligent “virtual soldiers,” mind-controlled weapons, brain “wipes” to purge traumatic memories, “quantum ghost imaging.” Now a lot of that sounds way beyond our time, certainly not possible within my lifetime; or is it? The Fox News article included a link to read the full story at Military.com’s DoD Buzz site. Military.com is a private military-oriented website, but they get their information directly from the source, citing such credible individuals as Dr. John Parmentola, the Army’s director for research and laboratory management.
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