Mind-Controlled Robots Are the Soldiers of the Future

For years, researchers have been exploring the potential for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) -- systems that connect up the human brain to external technology -- to restore movement to people with paralysed limbs, using electrode arrays implanted directly on the brain's surface.

In the future, however, US government-backed research could enable the use of BCIs without any surgery at all -- and they may first see use as a way of giving soldiers an advantage on the battlefield.

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Did the CIA Teleport President Obama to Mars?

Forget Kenya. Never mind the secret madrassas. The sinister, shocking truth about Barack Obama's past lies not in east Africa, but in outer space. As a young man in the early 1980s, Obama was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars. The future president teleported there, along with the future head of Darpa.

That's the assertion, at least, of a pair of self-proclaimed time-traveling, universe-exploring government agents. Andrew D. Basiago and William Stillings insist that they once served as "chrononauts" at Darpa's behest, traversing the boundaries of time and space. They swear: A youthful Barack Obama was one of them.

Perhaps this all sounds fantastical, absurd, and more than a little nuts. We couldn't agree more. That's one of the reasons we love conspiracy theories — the more awesomely insane, the better.

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