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 Pastor Butch,


 This just in from Wired Magazine May 14th...confirms what we said on
 the show....Nick


 Danger Room What's Next in National Security
 Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push


 Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand
 signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they'll
 read each other's minds.

 At least, that's the hope of researchers at the Pentagon's
 mad-science division Darpa. The agency's budget for the next fiscal
 year includes $4 million to start up a program called Silent Talk.
 The goal is to "allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield
 without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural
 signals." That's on top of the $4 million the Army handed out last
 year to the University of California to investigate the potential for
 computer-mediated telepathy.

 Before being vocalized, speech exists as word-specific neural signals
 in the mind. Darpa wants to develop technology that would detect
 these signals of "pre-speech," analyze them, and then transmit the
 statement to an intended interlocutor. Darpa plans to use EEG to read
 the brain waves. It's a technique they're also testing in a project
 to devise mind-reading binoculars that alert soldiers to threats
 faster the conscious mind can process them.

 The project has three major goals, according to Darpa. First, try to
 map a person's EEG patterns to his or her individual words. Then, see
 if those patterns are generalizable - if everyone has similar
 patterns. Last, "construct a fieldable pre-prototype that would
 decode the signal and transmit over a limited range."

 The military has been funding a handful of mind-tapping technology
 recently, and already have monkeys capable of telepathic limb
 control. Telepathy may also have advantages beyond covert battlefield
 chatter. Last year, the National Research Council and the Defense
 Intelligence Agency released a report suggesting that neuroscience
 might also be useful to "make the enemy obey our commands." The first
 step, though, may be getting a grunt to obey his officer's
 remotely-transmitted thoughts.

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