[shaun @ Jul 2nd 2007 4:39PM]

I do sometimes think that DARPA just has a playstation and gets their ideas from psuedo-science weapons in games

....the shoot through shield and the guidable bullets are both in Resistance Fall of Man, I'll bet there's loads of other projects that just happen to also be in games

[arthur barnhouse @ Jul 2nd 2007 4:48PM]

Well, you need to bear in mind that this is the same group that funded Gay Bomb and the isomer bomb. Compared to that crap, guided bullets are surprisingly reasonable.

[Big @ Jul 2nd 2007 5:38PM]

I am waiting for a space based ION CANNON so we can rain fire down on the heads of our enemies.

When people stand around the smoking crater, everyone will assume it was just an act of God.

[shaun @ Jul 2nd 2007 5:52PM]

are you being serious about a gay bomb and isomer bomb? what the hell do they do? I thought an isomer was a molecule with a different structure but same composition, how could that make a bomb?

[Andune @ Jul 2nd 2007 6:09PM]

@Big

Except for the cost an ion cannon would be a "wonderful" weapon. Nowhere to hide, no way to escape. Now all we need is an evil mastermind that gives the world a great reason to develop such a weapon...

[philadelphonic @ Jul 3rd 2007 2:41PM]

It's not so much that DARPA takes these ideas and turns them into actual working things, but they take what they have learned from these products and apply them to what we already have or are working on. Science fiction has always thought ahead of what is possible - in that way, it's purpose is the same as DARPA's. Again, very few of their things actually come to fruition, but many of the defense (and civil) technologies that we currently use owe their very existence to the craziness of DARPA.