How the Pentagon is developing Captain America Super Soldier project

Military world is entering a race to improve the ability to endure pain and human awareness. America is not out of play.

In his speech last month, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said that the enemy of the US was beginning to develop super soldiers based on the image of Captain America . "Now our enemy, without hesitation, has been looking for ways to enhance people's capabilities, and this is really worrying , " said Work. "We have to make important decisions whether or not we feel comfortable choosing that direction."

Although he was not careful when it comes to "human upgrade project " , it clearly refers to any genre of biotransformation soldiers that are capable of being superior to ordinary people. Moreover, Work did not prohibit these research and development, it was simply an important question that the military would have to ask.

There is no doubt that it is important, but it is clear that Work pretended that the United States had never touched this subject throughout history seems not to be honest. Or, maybe, just now they don't study it anymore.

America has never conducted human enhancement tests?

In 2014, the Advanced Defense Project Research Office (DARPA) had a rare move to create a new branch, the Office of Biotechnology (BTO) . The task of new executives is to bring together all of DARPA's biological research projects in one place, with the main goal of focusing on "restoring and maintaining the capacity of warriors" , according to a press release published at the time.

The announcement includes two examples of how DARPA will perform that task. A project - called SUBNETS - aims to "reduce the burden and severity" of post-traumatic stress disorder. So how does it work in the end? According to a story from 2013 in The Atlantic magazine, a pilot who needs only one pill can cause short-term memory loss after the task of causing severe trauma.

But if you forget everything, that's the problem? Another DARPA project, a memory recovery program (RAM), has studied a type of microchip that can be implanted into the brain, which causes soldiers to undergo brain damage to regain the ability to form signs. new memory.

The BTO press release also mentions a program called ADEPT . The goal is to discover methods of " detection and prevention of infectious diseases" , on both individual and social levels. The idea is that if we can protect soldiers from a biological weapon, we can scale up to stop the next disease. The military also has a project called ThoR , to protect soldiers outside combat, by finding ways to "prevent the body from overreacting to infection to allow time for natural recovery mechanisms to function. ".

An American paratrooper from the 4/25 infantry division was patrolling while other members parachuted from the C-17 Globemaster during a Talisman Saber exercise on July 8, 2015 in Rockhampton, Australia.

Another initiative, called the biochronicity program, for the purpose of, in part, "to reverse the aging process" , according to Joel Garreu, the New America's Future Tense partner.

Efforts on capital have taken place for generations. Back at the end of the Clinton era, DARPA began to intensify its focus on biology as a next boundary for the potential upgrade of the human race. Just a few months before Work's statements, The Atlantic magazine ran a theme entitled "Inside DARPA's efforts to study the future Super Heroes" , describing in detail the How the research agency tested biochemical refining to create more deadly fighters.

In 1999, Michael Goldblatt, a venture capitalist and biologist, became the head of DARPA's new defense science office. According to Atlantic's report, Goldblatt sought to create a " pain vaccine" that he thought would work with "10 to 30 seconds of pain then there would be no more pain in 30 the next day ". If it succeeds, DARPA will solve half of the problem - not feeling pain won't help if you lose too much blood. Excerpt from Atlantic magazine: "To develop a method of stopping bleeding, Goldblatt has started a new project by injecting millions of tiny magnets into the body, to prevent bleeding in certain areas of the body. just with a wave of hand. "

The only reason Goldblatt can talk about these programs is because they have been declassified after 10 years. The current situation of biological research in the US military - sometimes called Superman - is still completely hidden from the public.

It is not just that the military has certain monopolies in pushing human capacity beyond the current level. Looking beyond what DARPA is looking for, athletes in the US can touch all kinds of stimulants, pain relievers, growth hormones, and countless other performance enhancers. All tournaments and organizations banned their use with concerns about the reliability of the competition. But we all know these substances work. Imagine later, if instead of stopping an imbalance game, as what the NFL and the International Olympic Committee did, would be a capital body invested to create an imbalance in competition. . The encouragement of the United States or any other country in creating a warrior with superhuman strength and perseverance will be too obvious.

How much effort does DARPA have to take to succeed? We can't know it, but if you see any transformation coming out of a lab like Star Labs, Flash movies, quickly save yourself.