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Some of you probably live in a neighborhood that’s got a small population of lawn gnomes or a colony of flamingos. The only message that those ridiculous, overdone pieces of plastic and resin are going to send your neighbors is that you’re
Welcome to the future, kids. DARPA has just released video of its first actual test of EXACT (Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordinance) 50 caliber bullet. Big deal, right? Read that acronym again. Mainly the part that says ‘Tasked Ordinance’. EXAC
You’re walking with your buddy in the woods and one of you steps in what you thought was a dog mine only it cracks instead of squishes. During the Vietnam War, what looked like dog dookie could possibly be an Air Force homing beacon in disg
Over a weekend at Fort Benning, human inventors of automated robotic war machines showed off the devices that Skynet will probably use against us when it goes live. Sorry ’bout your first rule, Asimov. [Computer World]
Anyone who’s been following the evolution of Boston Dynamics has been creeped out at one point by their BigDog robot. BigDog is a quadraped robot that has learned a lot of tricks since it was a terrifying little puppy of a machine. It balan
Harry Potter had one. Frodo Baggins had one. Even Max from Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place had one. In fact, just about every single geek on the planet at some point in their life has probably hypothesized about how cool it would
We all watch movies like National Treasure and secretly hope that something cool like that might actually be out there in the world or even better that it might, out of some cosmic chance, actually happen to us. David Martin of England had
Remember that weird and completely creepy mule-like, self-stablizing robot that’s been swimming around the internet for a while now called the BigDog from Boston Dynamics? Well BigDog just got out-weirded and out-creeped by DARPA’s newest s
Because there’s not enough tension already in North and South Korea, a company has now developed what’s being hailed as a ‘super gun’ to help keep an eyeball on the demilitarized zone between the Hatfield/McCoy-style rivalry amongst the two
The Mine Kafon (teaser) from Callum Cooper on Vimeo. Looking like a cross between a Transformer sea anemone robot and a giant 1960s-styled light fixture in some swank space-lounge of that era, this strange-looking object is set to save a lo
Here’s your ‘Hell Yeah!’ moment of the week! If you enjoy phrases like “a device that shoots laser bolts” or “50 billion watts of optical power” you may want to continue reading about how the military is weaponizing lightning with a device
Twitter began buzzing that something straight out of a UFO conspiracy film was taking place late at night on a freeway in Washington D.C. Pictures were being uploaded and retweeted of a large flatbed truck, a military-looking escort and som
Along with the jet packs we were supposed to be sporting by now and the hover cars easing our commute was the military’s Flying Platform. In 1955 a film was shot showing one of the airborne Seqway-like contraptions in operation. Originally
Oh hell yeah. The most powerful Naval force in the history of the world is about to add the most coveted weapon in science fiction. Laser cannons. Although they won’t fire pulse blasts that explode enemy targets, the weaponized lasers can d
In many apartment buildings throughout big cities around the world, roof access is off limits. But only in London this summer, will it be because they might be firing a missile off of it to destroy an airborne terrorist attack. The British
[UFO Casebook]
As of now NASA’s historic Hangar One will be destroyed. Victim of a budget cut. One of the largest free standing structures in the world and historic landmark in the aviation history of this country will be completely demolished and lost to
A few friends go hiking in the Russian wilderness on an early February night in 1959. The Ural Mountain area is desolate, but not unmanageable for these nine veteran hikers. On a larger scale, the Soviet Union continues to ascend in global
It left a vapor trail as it soared into the sky but the questions have lingered far longer as we ponder “what was that California mystery missle after all?” Predictably, conspiracy theories abound: • We launched an ICBM from a submarin
Finally, jerks of 2024, you know what car you’ll be driving. DARPA has awarded $9 million in contracts to develop a flying war time vehicle that can drop supplies and engaged in limited air to ground combat. [LA Times]
Conspiracy nuts, on your mark! The top-secret X-37B space plane has already gone missing once this year (proving the craft to be far more agile than amateur military tech experts predicted) and now it has again disappeared. Many now suggest
Military had a laser. It tried to shoot down a moving drone. It worked. Lasers are awesome. What else is awesome? This quote: Mike Booen of Raytheon gave USA Today the money quote for the day: “The targets came in over the ocean, and it was
All the best tech comes from Sci Fi and comic books, fact. The United States Army has ordered a huge hybrid airship longer than a football field to watch over battlefields in Afghanistan by the end of 2011, according to the airship’s builde
Not exactly Men Who Stare At Goats, but here is some recently FOIA’d info about how the Pentagon oversaw experiments into forced narcotics dosing and mind control, all in an effort to get an edge on the godless communists in the Cold War. I
In case you were tired of running down all the conspiracy angles for the Air Forces’ new X-37B shuttle, here is a fresh new piece of AF intrigue for you to chew on. The Air Force’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2—designed to attack g
Want to know one way to not get blown up by Improvised Explosive Devices? Fly around in a totally sweet flying car! The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has cleared the Transformer (TX) program for takeoff. If it flies, by 2015 U.S.
A space plane designed to demonstrate the sustainability of a reusable, military-operated vehicle designed to orbit the earth will launch soon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. What happens after that is not of your GD business. But whether the