Real World becomes more like Comics

[Mutant for Hire]

I picked this off another board:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/3797336.htm

Yes folks, someone is working on the super-soldier formula.

[Supreme]

Originally posted by Mutant for Hire
I picked this off another board:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/3797336.htm

Yes folks, someone is working on the super-soldier formula.

Oh that's just weeeiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrd...
Of course if this were to progress like it did in the comics, then it would turn out that all those who used the formula would slowly turn evil. The underlying assumption is that you're supposed to earn your advancement, not swallow a pill. I'm guessing that in about 10-15 years the results of this study will be available over the counter as a diet pill, or at least available by perscription from a doctor as a geriatric treatment.

[Mutant for Hire]

The question is, if they do pull it off, what will happen to Captain America? Or other comic book characters?

[Hermit]

Originally posted by Mutant for Hire
The question is, if they do pull it off, what will happen to Captain America? Or other comic book characters?

Marvel will sue?

[Patriot]

I volunteer to be the first Silver avenger.

[MarkusDark]

There is a prototype battlesuit the army is working on. It's scheduled release is in 2020. I bought a "Popular Mechanics" magazine that had a whole bunch of articles on the future of warfare - including tanks who's outer surface is self healing and can change colors to fit camoflage. In the magazine, the battlesuit was detailed and I tried to recreate the suit for a Champions game - came out to about 200 points overall. The original design concept included a wrist launcher with 4 mini-missles and a mult-weapon 'toolkit' that can be quickly assembled to create a plethora of offensive choices.

The original artwork/design of the battlesuit, however, was apparently 'stolen' from a comic whose title escapes me at the moment, but they put out a suit against the Army who admitted that the concept artist did indeed take the character from it.

Sorry I don't have more details - I am studying to be a Pentagon Spokesperson so I am working on my vagueness.

Mark

[TheEmerged]

BTW, the wristrocket laucher is no longer part of the program, it's been replaced by a more standard sidearm that happens to have 4 tubes for small rockets.

[Patriot]

Thats just what we need for battlefeild superiority(like we dont have it already)

Mecha....


I'm gonna go watch the Robotech saga!

[Mutant for Hire]

Originally posted by Hermit
Marvel will sue?

Or maybe they'll send someone to assassinate the scientist who made it after they use it on the first test subject.

[Mutant for Hire]

I have that Popular Science collection on the future of the military. It's getting rather frightening how today's science fiction or comic books are being actively researched by the military.

It could lead to an arms race in the superhero comics, come to think of it. As the military gets increasingly powerful equipment the superheroes with innate powers just have to keep getting stronger to up the ante...

[Agent Escafarc]

Originally posted by Mutant for Hire
I have that Popular Science collection on the future of the military. It's getting rather frightening how today's science fiction or comic books are being actively researched by the military.

It could lead to an arms race in the superhero comics, come to think of it. As the military gets increasingly powerful equipment the superheroes with innate powers just have to keep getting stronger to up the ante...

I seem to remember reading about a comic writer who did a story near the end of WW II about an atomic bomb-like device and military intelligence anf the FBI came knocking on his door wanting to know what he knew about the Manhattan Project.

[Mad Dog Mike]

Well, it could definitely fit the comic book idea of nasty side effects for Tampering in God's Domain . To my knowledge growth factors like IGF are Bad Things to have constantly on; that way would lie cancer I'd think. Hopefully the scientists have some way to regulate it; cell signals like IGF aren't supposed to be on constantly. But some setup where this could be turned on after injury might work OK. I'd just think there'd be SOME long-term consequences for casually upseting the usual cellular equillibrium so violently, even if it was only locally.

[Evil Steve]

Upside of genetically modified superhuman freaks:less 'roid rage.
Downside:less 'roid sucking morons kicking of from heart failure.

I'm fence sitting on this one for now. Some parts of me see it as another attempt to avoid actually working to improve oneself, like diet pills. On the other side, the potential health benifits for people who are, ('scuse the terms) too far gone for normal processes to help would be greatly helped by this.

[Armitage]

Originally posted by Agent Escafarc
I seem to remember reading about a comic writer who did a story near the end of WW II about an atomic bomb-like device and military intelligence anf the FBI came knocking on his door wanting to know what he knew about the Manhattan Project.

Close. It was a "Private Snafu" Cartoon, Directed by Chuck Jones and written by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) as a training film for GI's.

1945: Coming Home
Private Snafu: Unreleased; Chuck Jones
Private Snafu comes home and tells Army secrets to everyone in town. Because of his loose lips, his troop is ambushed.

One of the secrets that he revealed was the testing of a new bomb powerful enough that one was able to obliterate an entire island.
All of the films had to be approved by the Pentagon prior to release and since this one hit so close to the Manhattan Project it was scrapped and never released.
Cartoon Network showed it on an episode of Toonheads featuring wartime cartoons.

[Chaosliege]

Originally posted by Mutant for Hire
I picked this off another board:

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/sports/3797336.htm

Yes folks, someone is working on the super-soldier formula.

This was interesting to read, and seems plausable enough, but there is nothing that I could find at the Penn ST medical school site that even hints at any such reserch. I'll beleave it when I see the infomercial