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Speaker 2: Hello, everybody, Welcome to the stuff they don't want you
Speaker 2: to know. Audio show.
Speaker 3: I'm Ben Bullett and I'm Matt Frederick.
Speaker 2: Matt. Today we are gonna do a little introduction to
Speaker 2: something that we often mentioned in our videos, but we
Speaker 2: don't get enough time to really explain.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, sure, we're talking about something that is large
Speaker 3: fairly old, not that old and important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So who could that be? Is that a person?
Speaker 2: Is it Wilford Brimley?
Speaker 3: I believe it is a thing. It is a thing.
Speaker 3: Make it a thing, or let's say an agency.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, an agency. What we are talking about today,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, is DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Speaker 2: This is no fooling, real life mad science, paid for
Speaker 2: by US taxpayers.
Speaker 3: This is the closest thing you'll ever get to the
Speaker 3: fringe division. That's real.
Speaker 2: That's a really good comparison. And this also you mentioned
Speaker 2: the history there, Matt. It's surprisingly old. It is just
Speaker 2: for me it.
Speaker 3: Well, can we get into kind of the history of it,
Speaker 3: or do you want to explain more about what it is.
Speaker 2: Let's jump right into the history.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if you want to know about the history
Speaker 3: of DARPA, you have to look at an agency called ARPA,
Speaker 3: which is the same as DARPA. Just take off that
Speaker 3: defense from the front of it, the Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Speaker 3: and it's a Cold War creation, something that came out
Speaker 3: of kind of the fear of the Soviet Union's power,
Speaker 3: especially after they launched Sputnik in nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 2: At this time, the Department of Defense was very concerned
Speaker 2: that there might be a weapon gap, a technology gap
Speaker 2: in the Cold War, and there.
Speaker 3: Was there, absolutely was. They successfully launched a satellite before
Speaker 3: we did, and it was seen as a massive threat.
Speaker 3: So one of the first things that ARPA looked at
Speaker 3: was getting man into space, or at least American man
Speaker 3: into space, and also putting satellites up of our own
Speaker 3: so that we could monitor what the Soviet Union was
Speaker 3: doing up there as well as on the ground.
Speaker 2: And we have just a dovetail on that. We have
Speaker 2: some more information about that in one of our Friday
Speaker 2: videos that features the role of secret satellites during the
Speaker 2: Cold War. Right, Oh, yes, we do, and so DARPA
Speaker 2: was created with this idea or excuse me, ARPA later
Speaker 2: to become DARPA in nineteen fifty eight, was created with
Speaker 2: this idea that the United States should always endeavor to
Speaker 2: have a technological edge over friend and foe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, superiority they called it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's weird because this kind of mandate also
Speaker 2: makes it a bit different in comparison to other government agencies,
Speaker 2: like if you think of other government agencies, the EPA,
Speaker 2: the FDA, a bunch of other acronyms that end with A,
Speaker 2: they operate in a much more top down style and
Speaker 2: they're much larger than DARPA. It's weird because for all
Speaker 2: the mentions that we hear about DARPA in the world
Speaker 2: of theories and also the world of frightening technology of
Speaker 2: the future, DARPA is actually kind of small.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's fairly small. I don't have numbers on that.
Speaker 3: Do you have numbers about actual employees, well confirmed employees.
Speaker 2: See, ah, yeah, I'm glad you said that. We don't.
Speaker 2: And actually, no one in the public is going to
Speaker 2: have a number that everyone agrees on. And that's because
Speaker 2: DARPA does a lot of so contracting right, And DARPA
Speaker 2: also has some classifications that don't really lend themselves to
Speaker 2: any sort of public information. So I guess at this
Speaker 2: point we should go ahead and make it clear. DARPA
Speaker 2: started with satellites and with the Moon missions, right.
Speaker 3: Which then split off into NASA and the NRO, the
Speaker 3: National Reconnoisance Office, and then they had to focus on
Speaker 3: different things. And one of the main things they were
Speaker 3: focusing on was information technology. And that's again if we
Speaker 3: want to kind of continue with kind of the things
Speaker 3: we've been talking about lately, especially on our show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they created the ARPINET in nineteen oh I think the
Speaker 3: contract was awarded in nineteen sixty nine.
Speaker 2: And ARPAET, well, that might sound kind of familiar to
Speaker 2: some people, Matt, what is arpaet.
Speaker 3: Arpinet is kind of the zygo of the internet that
Speaker 3: then I like that it then created the web, the
Speaker 3: internet in the web and all of the things that
Speaker 3: we use now online. It was just the first networking
Speaker 3: of computers. It's the first time it ever happened. A
Speaker 3: lot of people thought it couldn't happen, but thankfully the
Speaker 3: people at BBN, Bolt, Bernak, and Newman decided they could
Speaker 3: do it, they sent in a largely detailed proposal and
Speaker 3: they got the contract and then in that was in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty nine, and then in nineteen seventy six they
Speaker 3: had the first wireless transmission. So they jumped from nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty nine to figuring out how to network computers buy
Speaker 3: a landline to just what seven years later, then they've
Speaker 3: got the first wireless transmission. And when you think about
Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy six that there was wireless communication occurring,
Speaker 3: that's hard to think about because around I don't even
Speaker 3: know exactly what time that came around. For consumers.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a vast swath of the world still does
Speaker 2: not have that technology, and so that that's amazing. But
Speaker 2: it's not just the Internet. And Matt stop me if
Speaker 2: I start to sound as though I'm making an infomercial
Speaker 2: for DARPA, I certainly no problem. But these guys are
Speaker 2: into a lot of stuff. Right on another House Stuff
Speaker 2: Work show, we've covered something called the DARPA Urban Challenge,
Speaker 2: which is an annual competition to create an autonomous vehicle,
Speaker 2: you know, like the Google Car and the DARPER Urban
Speaker 2: Challenge is a multi faceted competition. There are teams from
Speaker 2: private entities. There are teams a lot of teams from universities,
Speaker 2: and they try to build the software necessary to create
Speaker 2: a car that can go through the open road and
Speaker 2: then also navigate treacherous urban environments. And they've had a
Speaker 2: lot of success. This is one of the key examples
Speaker 2: of DARPA'SMO when it works out, and DARPA's IMO is
Speaker 2: to fund other research agencies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to put out a call for a technology that
Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily exist yet and extrapolation on current technology, and
Speaker 3: then whoever can do it the best gets a contract
Speaker 3: from them through the government, and then they get to
Speaker 3: do it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: True story. DARPA has no publicly acknowledged laboratories or scientists
Speaker 2: of its own. They have program managers who sort of
Speaker 2: farm out this research and there's a lot of research.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I am trying so hard right now not
Speaker 2: to bring up my absolute favorite hobby horse of DARPA.
Speaker 2: Should I do it now or should it away?
Speaker 3: And well, let's get into it. I want to hear.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, the tDCS devices.
Speaker 3: Oh man, you're hung up on this.
Speaker 2: I'm hung up. I am so hung up on it.
Speaker 2: The technology is there one of DARPA's huge drives is
Speaker 2: to make a soldier of the future, right, not necessarily human,
Speaker 2: but still integrating human beings, human brains, and technological advances.
Speaker 2: So they've found this thing called or they didn't find it,
Speaker 2: but they've started using a thing called t DCS transcranial
Speaker 2: direct current simulation. Anybody who's watched our video shows knows
Speaker 2: that I am indeed hung up on this. So just
Speaker 2: a quick recap. The idea is that through low level
Speaker 2: electrical stimulation of specific parts of the brain, we can
Speaker 2: not only improve somebody's learning ability, we can also improve
Speaker 2: their memory retention and a couple of other neat mental tricks.
Speaker 2: And what's more, this change stays with you after the exposure.
Speaker 2: DARPA is using this to train snipers, to research pilot
Speaker 2: training time. It's a brave new worlds.
Speaker 3: And are you Are you trying to do some of
Speaker 3: this on your own veny research?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, I am fully on board with this. The
Speaker 2: technology is maybe dangerous, but it's relatively simple to build.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I think at this point, Matt, you and I should
Speaker 2: do a CoA and say we are not telling anyone
Speaker 2: to build.
Speaker 3: It, certainly not, but if you want to know more
Speaker 3: about it, watch our Deceptive Brain series episode three. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but don't do it yourself.
Speaker 2: It don't tell people that we told you to do it.
Speaker 2: We just say that it's interesting. And that's not all
Speaker 2: DARPA's doing. Do you have any particular projects of DARPA
Speaker 2: that you're interested.
Speaker 3: I do, But I'm going to kind of take it
Speaker 3: back to the history again. Really fascinate something that really
Speaker 3: fascinated me again that we can extrapolate upon. So they
Speaker 3: came up with this thing during the Gulf War, the
Speaker 3: first invasion of Iraq by the United States Desert Fox
Speaker 3: it was a desert storm, correct, and it's called simnet
Speaker 3: And that was the first time they started using their
Speaker 3: networked computers to create an actual real world war simula
Speaker 3: of one of the battles, the Battle of seventy three
Speaker 3: Easting and it was one of the last major tank
Speaker 3: battles that has occurred in the world.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: And it was essentially a video game like think of
Speaker 3: Battlefield or Arma or I don't know, Command and Conquer
Speaker 3: kind of in a way. Also. And it's really interesting
Speaker 3: to me because this was the first time using this
Speaker 3: kind of technology to do this, and the Defense Secretary
Speaker 3: at the time, Dick Cheney was extremely interested in this
Speaker 3: kind of war simulation and he pushed to have a
Speaker 3: lot more of this. And it makes me think about
Speaker 3: the video games of today and whether or not they're
Speaker 3: kind of they're kind of, I mean, they are war simulators.
Speaker 3: But are we, let me ask you this, are we
Speaker 3: teaching our children, including myself in this category, to be
Speaker 3: combat warriors through all these different types of video games
Speaker 3: with the top down strategy war games, the first person
Speaker 3: shooter war games, and the tank simulators. Sure?
Speaker 2: Or how long how far are we from the first
Speaker 2: drone simulator game?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And an enders game? Right? Yeah? And the kids
Speaker 3: who are who think they're playing a game but they're
Speaker 3: actually bombing people with predator drones spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: The book's been out for a while, and that is
Speaker 2: a very good point, like at what where's the threshold?
Speaker 2: At what point does it move from being a game
Speaker 2: to being something that is clearly training? I like that
Speaker 2: question very much. I also think it's important when we
Speaker 2: go to DARPA as a subject met we run into
Speaker 2: a lot of rumors, a lot of disconcerting facts. Most definitely,
Speaker 2: if you like like us, are a little bit weirded
Speaker 2: out by some of the amazing improvements and robotics, then
Speaker 2: DARPA is your go to for a sleepless night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, speaking about improving the human not only the brain,
Speaker 3: but good golly, some of those wow did I say,
Speaker 3: good golly? Good golly some of those Some of the
Speaker 3: the exoskeletons that are being produced, some of the innovations
Speaker 3: in nanotechnology that they're coming out.
Speaker 2: With, bionic prosthetics that actually do have the ability to
Speaker 2: relay sensations heat, cold, pain.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of interesting and quite frankly frightening things
Speaker 3: that they're coming up with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is just the stuff that we know
Speaker 2: about that is publicly acknowledged. Now. DARPA is a little
Speaker 2: more open than some areas of the US government, like
Speaker 2: the ASA, for example. You can actually go to DARPA's
Speaker 2: website and see their requests for proposals and see what
Speaker 2: opportunities they have for you, your agency, or your crew
Speaker 2: of local mad scientists to get that mad science cooking
Speaker 2: with gas.
Speaker 3: Ben, I hate to do this. I'm so sorry, man.
Speaker 3: I liked where you were going there, by the way,
Speaker 3: but the lightest flashing that means we've got to get
Speaker 3: out of here. Somebody else needs to use the studio.
Speaker 2: Ah right, Okay, Well, hey what about this, Matt, What
Speaker 2: if we make this a two parter. Oh that's a
Speaker 2: great idea, because we're nowhere near done.
Speaker 3: No, not at all. We have so much more to cover.
Speaker 2: So stay tuned to hear the conclusion of our two
Speaker 2: part series on DARPA. In the meantime, let us know
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