Comments on: Army Working on Science’s Outer Limits

By: unclesam

unclesam — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:12:13 +0000

minority report … twightlight zone soldiers

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:49:33 +0000

Sci-fi?
“been able to erase certain memories from mice subjected to traumatic experiences in a laboratory environment, Parmentola said.“
Yeah sure, as animals we are of a molecular nature, as are our memories.
Actually some have been studying that at McGill in the last years, with rats and human subjects:
http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/38/12/nader/
“Take mind communication, for example. Experiments have shown that certain thoughts generate electrical impulses on the surface of the scalp, Parmentola said.“
And certain types of water are moist.
Everybody’s been using EEG and MEG for decades. Now if they are putting effort and budget to design algoryths to precisely detect some types of thoughts over the noise, that’s cool.
“Einsteinian world of quantum mechanics and particle physics.“
Einstein and quantum physic? I don’t get it.
Still, quantum ghost imaging seems like an interesting and elegant technology.

By: ohwilleke

ohwilleke — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:20:05 +0000

You give Einstein a little bit too little credit.
While he is now better known for his work in special and general relativity, he also did do some of the pioneering work in quantum mechanics — before the genuine randomness of quantum phenomena was well established, back when simply establishing that quanta existed and behaved in non-classical ways was progress.
Einstein also spent many of his later years, mostly failed, years searching for the unifying theory of everything that still dogs theoretical physicists today.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:17:13 +0000

A small nit pick, quantum mechanics is not Einsteinian at all. In fact, Einstein did not believe in quantum mechanics and famously said, “god doesn’t play dice with the Universe.”

By: joeblow

joeblow — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:05:04 +0000

“For the last several years, the Army has kept a close eye on research into areas of science that might have once been called “paranormal;” its practitioners drummed out of the academy as kooks and nut-jobs.“
I take offense at this statement. The programs you’ve described in this article are simply advance scientific research. They are deeply rooting in real science, and have nothing to do with the paranormal.
I grant you that the line is not always so clear. Sniffex tried to pass off bs as science. The government have used “remote viewing”, without proof or rational explanation for why it works. Salinas’s Geo-Radar is likely a scam despite it looking really “scientific”. The point is, those research programs are not pseudo-science…

By: Vitor

Vitor — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:37:31 +0000

Oh, nice. By 2040, they will come to the conclusion that putting a piston on assault rifles are good. =P

By: atacms

atacms — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:46:20 +0000

Christian,
Will you be going, I’ve got my tickets already and it’d be nice to meet and find a fellow military tech buff.
regards,
atacms (nick)