Whether developing cyborg insect surveillance or a nose-spray brain chemical to replace sleep, DARPA always keeps us on our toes trying to guess what on Earth (or beyond) they are going to come up with next. Will here it is folks, DARPA says they are now developing a submarine that can fly (or an airplane that can go under water—whichever way you choose to look at it.) The submersible aircraft/flying submarine would be used to get small clandestine teams to coastal waters unnoticed, so they can then sneak onto land less noticeably than landing an aircraft.
While flying submarines may seem the future of SCI-FI, the military was actually the first innovators of the internet. The research started in 1958 and would be perfected for use seven years later. (See timeline at title to entry - thank you)
And Texas had nothing to do with it.
1965 - First Network Experiment: Directed by Larry Roberts at MIT Lincoln Lab, two computers talked to each other using packet-switching technology.
