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‘Super Soldiers’: The Quest for the Ultimate Human Killing Machine - Ed Jewett - 17-11-2011 Super Soldiers': The Quest for the Ultimate Human Killing MachineNovember 17th, 2011Via: Independent:The era of The Terminator, the perfect robotic killing machine, is decades away; to date, all efforts to create a humanoid robot that can climb the stairs, let alone fight the Taliban, have been risible. But scientists are reporting breakthroughs with the next-best thing the creation of human terminators, who feel less pain, less terror and less fatigue than "non-enhanced" soldiers and whose very bodies may be augmented by powerful machines. Efforts to understand the brain of the soldier and put this knowledge to good use have been going on for some time. Professor Jonathan Moreno, a bioethicist at Pennsylvania State University, studies the way neuroscience is being co-opted by the military. "Right now, this is the fastest-growing area of science," he says. Research Credit: Phantom Report Posted in Atrocities, Mind Control, Rise of the Machines, War |