{"id":84708,"date":"2018-11-14T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/bullets-that-dont-miss-weaponized-insects-and-more-innovations-from-darpa-americas-secret-lab"},"modified":"2018-11-14T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:53:09","slug":"bullets-that-dont-miss-weaponized-insects-and-more-innovations-from-darpa-americas-secret-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/bullets-that-dont-miss-weaponized-insects-and-more-innovations-from-darpa-americas-secret-lab","title":{"rendered":"Bullets that don\u2019t miss, weaponized insects and more: Innovations from DARPA, America\u2019s secret lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bullets-that-dont-miss-weaponized-insects-and-more-innovations-from-darpa-americas-secret-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bullets that never miss, super soldiers with extreme strength and robot warriors capable of rising up against humans may sound like the stuff of science fiction\u2026 but the truth is that they have all already been developed.<\/p>\n<p>A top-secret US government body called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is behind these space-age innovations, which it has developed as part of its mission to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/7040559\/how-ai-controlled-fighter-jets-and-warships-and-armies-of-cyber-soldiers-will-dominate-the-battlefields-of-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">revolutionize the way America fights the wars of the future<\/a>. (Just think of Q\u2019s lab in James Bond, but for the US army).<\/p>\n<p>Ever since it was established in 1958, DARPA has been the subject of conspiracy theories claiming \u2014 among other things \u2014 that the agency was covering up UFO landings, trying to develop mind control and working on Earth-shattering super-weapons like death rays.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/bullets-that-dont-miss-weaponized-insects-and-more-innovations-from-darpa-americas-secret-lab\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/bullets-that-dont-miss-weaponiz...secret-lab<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullets that never miss, super soldiers with extreme strength and robot warriors capable of rising up against humans may sound like the stuff of science fiction\u2026 but the truth is that they have all already been developed. A top-secret US government body called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is behind these space-age innovations, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}