Do these guys even do anything anymore? I feel like every useful invention nowadays comes from private companies.
>>65238562>dis nigga doesn't know how many multiple multi billion (thats $$,$$$,$$$,$$$) black budget projects that are decades away from even being discussed by some butter bar intelligence officer to his lunch buddy under a hushed tone over that morning's goyslop are being conducted ran by DARPAMy nigger, we have flesh eating drones that run off the burnt corpses of our enemy. You don't think we have something for when ET comes to collect his rent money? You think Project Sundial was overkill? Wait until you find out the power of a fucking antimatter bomb. And I'm not talking about that fag shit from Angels and Deamons 2. I'm talking about something practical that would make the Sampson Option look like child's play.
>>65238562>he doesnt knowEveryone point and laugh at this dumb nigga.
>>65238628>>65238645>yeah they're totally making super super sekret amazeballs things duuude, they just don't release anything ever unlike the products of private companies which immediately get incorporated into the militarymore likely solution is they're just embezzling and letting the public companies pick up the slack
>>65238562you do realize they also funnel funding into private companies and various private sector projects as well, right? Or do you think DARPA is entirely a bunch of scientists in a DARPA building?
>he doesn't knowngmi
>>65238562You get to find out what DARPA was doing today in thirty years. That's how these things work.
>>65238628But Darpa doesn't do any of those things the DOE does.
>WHY ISN'T THE GIVERNMENT TELLING ME THINGS?!is this your first time on earth OP?
>>65238645>>he doesnt know>>65238656>he doesn't know
>>65238562they have a youtube channel where you can take a look.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tBE8qQl49g
>>65238659>EATR was DOE
>>65238652Darpa gives grants to private enterprises. But yes, a lot of the shit they're funding right now is pie in the sky shit like healing rays and biological computers that aren't likely to produce anything practical or for the foreseeable future.
>>65238562Interdimensional travel to send a lathe to Xi Jinpings house and just let nature do its thing
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>>65238562DARPA isn't some skunkworks sooper-dooper experimental weapons developer. It's a mix of extremely long-term pure science research to keep the US caught up on emerging fields and small, short-term development of existing technology for imagined use-case scenarios. Sometimes the two coincide, but not often. Right now they're primarily developing tech for the next leap forward in combat vehicles, drones and robotics, which is generally iterative prototyping that's pretty boring from the outside. When you've seen one DARPA robo-dog, you've seen them all, even if the new ones can open complex doors, have software that can identify a human breathing from 30 yards, and use multi-spectrum imaging to see through walls and vegetation. They are currently doing some cool shit with space heavy lift capabilities, but that's all run through various agencies dealing with NASA, so we won't get to see that for the next couple of decades.>every useful invention nowadays comes from private companiesI hate to break it to you, but half the cutting-edge mil-tech companies out there are either using FedGov R&D technology in their manufacturing, as the core of their product, or even laundering it directly. There's not as much genuine innovation in the private sector as you'd hope, and there's going to be even less as our economy shifts even further into the realm of the make-believe.
>>65239479alot of what darpa does is also just "someone had an idea so we tried it as best as anyone on earth could and we found its not worth doing"which is really really important.knowing what doesnt work/isnt "worth" doing is about as valuable as finding what does work
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>>65239488Great point. Their research into electric vehicles was a pretty definitive nail in the coffin of battery-powered ISR vehicles. The battery tech just doesn't exist to make it work, so instead they pivoted to developing remote and autonomous all-terrain ISR ground vehicles with dual-use.
>>65238628Facebook was a DARPA project
>>65239313>a lot of the shit they're funding right now is pie in the sky shit like healing rays and biological computers Yeah that sounds like embezzlement
>>65240868Thats because it is, but like >>65239488 said, we sometimes need to learn how to not do something to how to indeed do it.
