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Welcome to /c/DARPA - an introduction and discussion thread (lemmy.ca)
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Welcome to /c/DARPA - a place to aggregate the interesting and unusual research undertaken by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

While doing some personal research, I was surprised to discover how much information DARPA releases about the projects that they're working on, via their website. I thought it could be interesting to put some of the strangest projects together here.

I want this community to function well as a tidy RSS feed, so posts should be direct links to DARPA research projects from darpa.mil, or reputable news and information sources. General discussion is welcome in the stickied post. Depending on community activity, I'll make the sticky post weekly or monthly.

Posting is restricted right now, but will be opened soon, after I put together a handful of initial links.

Let me know your thoughts, and, cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Edit: Just added an image from a presentation on one of my favorite topics: memetic warfare (yes, memes are a weapon developed by the military)

You might like some of those 'studies'

Nice.

I've been a deep diver into the .mil domains since google was new and had a hidden /unclesam dedicated search specifically for US government domains. Back when encryption and site security wasn't really a thing. (There are things you just can't find anymore )

Between DARPA and certain AF .mil domains there are some absolutely mind blowing/boggling technologies either in existence or being researched.

Holographic warfare, psyops, weather mod, propulsion systems, etc.

And the little known fact (to today's youth) that the entirety of the internet is actually ARPANET.

Bring it on.

This is awesome.

This image was added in the edit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That presentation slide is awesome! Where did you find that?

I've opened up posting, so, do post this to the community if you feel like it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://archive.org/details/MilitaryMemetics/page/n9/mode/1up

I wrote a response to your other comment but jerboa crashed as I linked a site.

Anyway, .edu sites are always troves for collaboration between mil and public research.

Fas.org is great but you need to use an external search as all the archives are hidden from the main site. (Not just DARPA but things like af2025 and AF space and weather domination, etc)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Afas.org+darpa&t=fpas&ia=web

This one on TELEPORTATION is pretty neat.

https://sgp.fas.org/eprint/teleport.pdf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow, very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'll gk through my own archives to see what sites and docs might be fun.

Most old sites are now defunct, though.

Like the Alaska .edu site where DARPA did their haarp research.

I'm not really one to post. I usually respond with (hopefully) useful info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, all the same, thank you for chiming in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks!

Any interesting domains you can share?

I think many of the posts here are going to end up pointing to wayback machine page snapshots - it seems like DARPA posted a lot more detailed information in the early 2000s on their BAAs and solicitations. For example, there is so much information on the objectives and ideas behind LifeLog, but DARPA memory holed it almost immediately after it was announced, so a one-month window of snapshots from the wayback machine is the only way to learn about it from a primary source.