Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a> Scientists Discuss <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Cybernetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetic</span></a> '<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SuperSoldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuperSoldiers</span></a>'<br>Soldier of the future will be "flooded with pain-numbing stimulants," cybernetically enhanced, and, one official sort-of joked, must be eventually "terminated."<br>Ideas discussed include synthetic blood, pain-numbing stimulants, limb regeneration, and non-invasive brain stimulation. Discussion references <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Scalzi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scalzi</span></a>'s book about future where Earth wages war by offering elderly new youthful bodies in exchange for service<br><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7eky8/pentagon-scientists-discuss-cybernetic-super-soldiers-that-feel-nothing-while-killing-in-dystopian-presentation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vice.com/en/article/n7eky8/pen</span><span class="invisible">tagon-scientists-discuss-cybernetic-super-soldiers-that-feel-nothing-while-killing-in-dystopian-presentation</span></a></p>