The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged walking trucks in 1980s

Re:The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged w... by jacobwilliamroy on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:18PM (#24402999)

With the exception of prosthetic limbs, so far those technologies have proven to be net negatives for humanity, only accelerating our suicide:

GPS: Nuclear missile guidance system

Internet: distributed nuclear missile command and control system

Computer mice: windows

Onion routing: fbi honeypot, enabled multiple violent insurgencies in northern africa and southwest asia.

And the list of actual successful darpa projects is longer than the one you provided, and the omissions are not nearly as benign as the ones you have cherry-picked.

And that's just what made it out of the lab. How many full ride college scholarships have they left on the cutting room floor? How many insulin shots? How many pounds of fresh food? C'mon man. DARPA makes war, not life.

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Re:The US Army spent millions developing giant, six-legged w... by Rebelgecko on Monday September 07, 2020 @07:54PM (#24403923)

I don't think those are very good examples. My internet must be defective. I haven't been able to launch a single nuclear missile from it.

Same for GPS-- compare the number of deaths from GPS guided nuclear missiles (0) to the number of lives saved by GPS (through more efficient farming, turn by turn directions, E911, etc)

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