Could We Create Real Super Soldiers? 

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What is kinda terrifying is having recently learned how incubators have developed. Between improvements to help increasingly premature infants and biologist making incubators so they can visually observe zygote development, some are estimating we could incubate a human being from conception to birth in about 8 to 10 years. All a government would need to compete in a supersolder arms race is quietly obtain donated eggs and sperm and raise batches of experimental humans in secret. Of course this is still lagistacly difficult to do in secret, but the fact that it entirely possible in the next few decades is insane.

Given how many weapons end up backfiring on those who created them, the idea of experimental “super soldiers” is more likely to end with creating Fallout style super mutants than Captain America.

The big problem with spending all the money and resources engineering super soldiers is: what if they don't want to be soldiers? They have to be slaves....for life. And what if they don't want to be slaves for life? Pretty sure there are a couple of bad sci fi movies dealing with this.

If only we had decades of science fiction to suggest what could go wrong here.....

I literally laughed out loud at that little "Easter Egg" in the picture of the DNA 😂

One time my grandma who I might add was an American, Was on a rampage about Captain America and it included the phrase “why is he fighting a war on drugs, when drugs are the reason that he’s even a super soldier that asthmatic little piece of shit” It makes me laugh so hard every time I see anything relating to Captain America all I think of is my grandma calling him an asthmatic little piece of shit lmao

The military has always been far more technologically advanced than the general public, with many things we have never heard of or seen.

There's just one tiny problem with the supersoldier stuff. I understand that for that to work you'd need to edit the embryo, so then, you'd have to force a bunch of people to be soldiers from birth, and subsequently having other roles and "classes" imposed from birth. And thtat's the kind of Aldous Huxley bs dystopia I don't want to live in lmao.

My grandad sailed tankers carrying aviation fuel for the allies, which meant he spent the 6 years of WW2 being chased all over the world by U-boats. He saw lots of horrific stuff, like tankers in his convoy being torpedoed and vanishing in seconds. He had a rotten war. But despite this, he always said that war advances technology by decades, in a very short space of time… In peace time, everybody focuses their efforts on domestic squabbling over trivia and fiction, meaning technology advances very slowly.

Also don't forget that the world War 3 memes are going to be lit.

Well one really big problem I see with this is let's say we make a super soldier and the person decides not to be a soldier and becomes a criminal or something if they become a criminal and are literally physiologically better than a normal human they could cause so much damage since we can already see how much damage normal humans can do imagine how much more damage some sort of a super soldier could do or worse a group of super soldiers.

Seriously, war is only an ego clash between two leaders and young soldiers are dying for those old men's ego. We should take both leaders and make them fight 1 vs 1. No big scale war, no millions of deaths. Only one winner.

For a species who has alot of potential for progress, we certainly have a knack for creating our own undoing.

honestly, as impressive as genetically enhanced super soldiers might be, I'd be more worried about cybernetically enhanced super soldiers, since GESS are still limited by what DNA could do, where as Cyborgs could do things that are outright beyond biology, the GESS has super-dense muscles taken from gorillas/chimpanzees capable of lifting almost 5 tonnes, while the cyborg has hydraulics capable of lifting 50 (just pulling numbers from nowhere but you get my point)

I have wanted this topic to be explored so badly. I know so many people have strong emotions about this, but in all reality this is a amazing achievement of human capabilities, health care, human attributes, we can work through any trial and error to gain so much benefits from this field of science. And this won't spread like a virus, these things can only directly effect the people who have children after the gene editing. And even then, it's not 100% that that gene will transfer and be active in your baby when passed from the parent. The mom has the dad has another. So it's very much more likely that the original crisper embryo would gain the added Gene's, and then if a family lineage builds off of that individual, then it's more likely that in that family lineage throughout the generations will have some random individuals in that bloodline with those active genes in them. It can be very helpful. Honestly, life in general is very risky. Just naturally reproducing organisms have a very likely chance that their children could have a medical condition... So in all seriousness, we're not really altering much, if anything, if things get advanced, we could be actually increasing the likelihood of healthy reproduction. Alternatively, say this was never a situation, the bar of standard was stuck at a pretty low point, with medical issues being highly common. So the bar isn't super high level and we're irresponsibly tossing that out the window. Also, last point. This will only be an option for very very very few people in all reality. Either, the richest of the rich, or select individuals that agree towards trials and study's that they would probably follow the individual as they grow and see how things are, do tests, see if certain things are doing well and equally if things are not doing well, so it's going to take a long time to get this zoned in and calibrated but once our knowledge and understand of it and the make up of our genes and how they are activated, etc. It could greatly improve our species as a whole but probably the biggest factor in the far far future is "those who have advanced Gene's and those who happened to not have them?" But it's always something like that in nature, be in high altitude adaptive people, free diving swimmers, endurance athletes, people with the Hercules gene that allows them to naturally have more muscle than normal people. So it's just a matter of keeping the right goals and perspective on this. It's potentially one of the greatest chapters in our evolution since we've gotten to this era of our timeline.

The old Star Trek I believe had a show where they fought wars with computers and then anyone living within the area of the computer bomb hits went to be incinerated.

I imagine less of Captain America, and more Space Marines from 40K tbh.

Heyo Thoughty! Caught a typo on this one, 9:23 "soliders" instead of "soldiers". Loved the video as always. Cheers mate!

Is this when we accidentally create the thing that kills us lol

And once we've made these super soldiers, what do we do with them once the war is over? I thin there have been several movies and books about this and most of them don't end well for the rest of us.

Even if scientist could create the perfect super soldier today, by the time they are even capable of going to war the Ai more than likely will be way better than them at their job making them kinda obsolete

To make ourselves better tools? Oh come on thoughty2, recent events have already taught us there are millions of really good tools amongst us these days as it is. 🤣

As a fan of John Scalzi's "Old Man's War", I really hope this is the way gene edited soldiers go. Why mess with the genetics of an unknown human, when you could edit the genes of a known human and enhance what's already there. Without giving the plot of the book away (because it's one of my favorites, blending humor and suspense in a way the MCU has mastered before Ironman ever hit theatre's), 60 year olds are expected to enlist into the military and then live the next 20 years as they normally would. Once they turn 80, they wake up in their genetically modified 20 year old bodies. They then go off to fight the world's enemies around the universe.

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The military has already used super soldiers to eliminate creepy dogman type creatures in some deep forested areas where humans reported horrable encounters.

The military has been recruiting top fps players to start a new branch of soldiers to use robots in war, science is that fps players already have years of honed skilled in hand eye coordination and reaction time This is a joke

" Peace was never an option " -Humans

Very interesting developments ahead and these are coming very fast. Hope I'll see them in my lifetime

9:23: super soliders... sorry, couldn't resist! Great video as always!

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Gene editing is cool and all, but what if we just make nanomachines that harden in response to physical trauma?

14:33 That would pretty much be Dolph Lundgren you are describing... 6'5", 250 lbs, Black Belt, Master's degree in chemistry...

In the future, we will likely see the UN and other groups passing laws and legislations, conventions, etc. that there has to be a certain ratio of human soldiers/operators to autonomous combatants involved in any military, police, or relief operations. That being said, amplifying the human animal seems to be another method in keeping human combatants viable in modern and post-modern warfare. This is already being done with the recent developments in exo-skeletons, augmented reality implementation, genetic conditioning, and improved/dynamic training regiments. TL;DR: Future wars will be fought by a combination of autonomous robotic drones/satellites as well as augmented human soldiers.

Tech is so advanced that it’s getting scary… Robots with their own minds and opinions, genetically modifying humans, Chinese scientists working on an artificial sun…

extremely well presented - I do not want to be any type of God, and having seen war at far too close up, do not wish to find out what terrible things could be done with this science!

This guy is the king of changing title and thumbnail after like 5 hours, I’m sure there’s some intelligent algorithm manipulation behind it

Every Metal Gear player shat themselves when he brought up Genome editing lmao

Captain America is just a dude with the best steroids

This is how The Partials Sequence starts💀genetic modification creating super soldiers bred for war who eventually turn on mankind 😀

Imagine what the technology we have could be like if it wasn't designed for military applications or if we didn't have war...

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But let’s say every side starts using robots that could mean less human casualties if we just have robots die instead if everyone relies on human soldiers Idk maybe I’m being too optimistic lol

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I put it to you simply "The serum enhances everything inside. Good becomes great, bad becomes worse." Yes we maybe close to captain America's BUT "the right man" needs to be chosen and well...... that ain't happening they will pick a man that will be "strong, fast, and obey orders." Until the person sees they don't need to and then bow to your new king or kings.

"Most human beings perform pretty poorly in high stress situations. The more pressure we're put under, the more likely we are to make a mistake. We get tired quickly, meaning we need to be unconscious, and therefor defenseless, for large portions of every day in order to remain effective. We need to eat and drink regularly or we die. And we're only able to operate in a narrow range of atmospheric conditions and temperatures before we just shut down. We get sick fairly easily. We die if you dunk us into water for too long." These all sound like civilian problems.

I dont think it's viable, cloning your most decorated soldier is more likely to happen. And then you have to train them from birth, so the costs will be insane. Lucas' vision in Star Wars is more likely to happen. Robots on the battlefield first (already happening with drones) followed by clones.

Kinda like Spartans we're raised back then, made for war and such.

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Gene's editing sounds like eugenics. If a human destined to be fragile then let it be. Military sector is doing great without this monstrosity of a science.

There's a type of armor for a foot soldier that offers more protection than bullet resistant vest or helmet. It makes it easier to scale various buildings, walls, or other such structures, make it more efficient to cross creeks, swamps and some other bodies of water. Offer better operation under hot sunny conditions or when in winter. The Swiss Army knife of body protection. Interestingly the military did use such an item, yet impressive as it was, they used it completely wrong. If slightly modified and used differently it would offer an immensely more opportunity for protection. It would offer safer protection in urban, forest, snow, fields, the majority of battle conditions.

If it gives you any comfort Khan Noonien Singh was known as the Best of the Tyrants. There were no massacres under his rule and no wars until he was attacked.

"periods in history just have seen large amounts of conflict have traditionally catalyzed huge leaps forward in technology" That's not necessary for technological advancements. Also these days people from many developing countries have greater resources to research than they previously did. By that logic, we'll make better progress without war.

No matter what, in war, in fights, in life, you do not win because you say you won, you win because the other man admits they lost.

improving certain traits isnt all we could do, with enough effort we could discover the codons which code for certain traits and then we could (theoretically) create a new pair of sister chromosomes and put said traits on them

Oh man, this crispr stuff sounds awesome. What wonderful times we live in.

Science: How do we make the perfect killing machine? Religion and Philosophy: How to we make humans more compassionate? Economics: Why are you wasting your time on the humanities? We need more bombs!

I love your start-of-the-video jokes, bro. It makes me interested , without even having assumptions as to what exactly you'll talk about.

Yeah this subject drives me insane…. The process of naturally evolving the genetic code over thousands of years is slow for a reason. We could discover methods to make someone immune to illness with one alteration that seems to have nothing but pros and no cons. Just to find out hundreds of years later that there was an unrealized consequence that we weren’t aware of until the entire human species is trapped in a bad situation because it was considered “safe” and “harmless” editing for a hundred years already. Things like this don’t show the full consequences in a 12 year clinical trial. It’ll eradicate an entire species after a thousand. Of course then we’ll just edit again and again and again to eliminate the next undesirable trait…. Losing track of our starting point and introducing so many unknowns and variables it would be impossible to determine at which point we made a bad edit. You don’t have to be religious to understand this is stupid… humans don’t have the patience for this kind of science, nor are we historically responsible enough for it.

I can already imagine those super soldiers say "back to the formula"

CRISPR isn’t just capable of enhancing humans, it’s also been used to make literal dinosaur embryos with snouts instead of beaks, claws instead of wings and tails instead of feather fans on the back of a chicken, now just imagine war with super humans and ACTUAL LIVING DINOSAURS

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Can you comprehend emotion or traverse time? It’s easy to claim that people we don’t approve of are doing things we consider wrong until we feel that we know enough to achieve our ends but do not comprehend the cost of that action.

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making the navy immune to HiV would be a HUGE advancement in our military’s

stronger, faster, more resilient, that I agree with, but no military leader wants intelligent soldiers, who could question the mission.

Wich bit does what 🤷🏻‍♂️ priceless 🤣

"What are you guys in for" "I murdered a person" "I hijacked a plane" "I edited genes..."

Oh my effing G, we are actually on the horizon of creating Stormtroopers and I'm not happy about it but I can't help but be intrigued

How long before these super intelligent super soldiers band together to enslave all us normies?

Every time I look in the mirror I see a miracle of gene selection to the utmost perfection. Biologist want to splice me, global powers want to entice me, but in the end only thoughty2 offers paradise to me.

LOL, we headed to what krypton was in the comics. You are born with a specific task to complete in your life.

This beautiful film and especially its unmanned airplanes reminds me of a story I was once told: that two kings fought out their differences on the chessboard, instead of on the field. Nobody died. I can imagine a far future where two future kings, queens, or anything in between will fight out their differences with unmanned chessboards. Nobody died. Both scenarios are the only two scenarios where I can see the beauty in 'war.'

You should make a video on nano technology and it’s use in everyday life once completed and what the future of soldiers may look like after it’s been refined

Aldous Huxley’s _Brave New World_ and/or the movie _Gattaca_ come to mind… with a little sprinkle of _Frankenstein’s Monster_ and/or the OG Golem of the Jewish ghetto of Prague …and it’s terrifying.

The only super soldier I know is the one that can bring peace, to anyone involved.

Time to build Captain America, Solid Snake and the Genome Soldiers, and other Super Soldier Serums

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How about editing the genome so that the bloodlust itself is removed rather than make super soldiers?

Here's an argument that's outside of ethics: if you think that people treat each other badly due to superficial differences, just imagine if you add to that making another group genetically different in ANY way, how will they be treated?

What a brave new world we live in today!

In 2004 there was an outbreak of syphilis on Camp Victory North and Black Jack. It was tracked back to a medic of all people. Making soldiers immune to STD’s is actually a great idea.

If they start to build a soldier THEY SHOULD USE BROCK LESNAR as the default template

All I can think of during the super soldier talk is the yelling of the name Khan by both Kirk and Spock

Humans are infamously notorious for seeing the promise of tomorrow so clearly we could almost touch it, only to light it ablaze to illuminate the night, only leaving behind the ash and dust of the best of us! Way to go humans, way to go...du_ub

2:48 Well well. Single men of the future truly would be good warriors of old.

The Jet engine was run and powered an Aircraft in the 1930's. War sped up the development of it.

I’d like to see you do a video on the fear of the unknown. How people react to it and how it’s triggered. I’m an aspiring filmmaker and would like to make a movie that enacts this feeling in the audience. Sort of like Alien, jaws or 2001: a space odyssey (to some extent.)

I think is more gonna be on the lines of: "COPS CANT FOLLOW ME ON WATER! [CRISPRANKS Pt.23] NOT CLICKBAIT!! *BUSTED* - (heart stopped again 😂)"

25 years ago I read an article, New scientist? which said that the Tornados with their terrien folllowing radar had no problems. But the pilots did.. The speed of the fighters now is limited to our little bodyies' limits. No way to fight a war!

Umm, has anyone in power ever watched Star Trek?? I mean, this is dangerously close to creating a real life Khan...

First they used to fight by slapping each other till someone cried. Then some genius invented the fist, and won a battle. From then on, everyone used fists instead of slapping. Sometimes people died in fights from then on. Then one day some genius invented the stick. He won a few battles; but then one day someone who used to be able to thump him using the high tech pair configuration of fists bashed his head in with a stick. People all took to stick fighting. Net effect. The death toll in wars went up. Then came the stone. Total deaths went up, especially with the sharp stone (deadly even compared to the sharp stick.) ... Roland Gaross figured out how to shoot through his propellor and won a dogfight. Then he crashed behind enemy lines. Once again, everyone quickly gained the new war technology. Air combat became quite a slaughter as a consequence. Of course it was nothing compared to the improved artillery technology they had by that time. And so it goes on - until MAD. For at least a while, MAD has worked quite well at making war unwinnable in all the worst case scenarios. Until you get a MADman obsessed with "winning". "Winning" - making someone else lose. In war terms, generally by killing that someone else. A blinkered view of the world is helpful in achieving this purpose, even in the harmless cases. That said, we can complain all we like, and even reason with the unreasonable kind of person that has the kind of will-to-power that leads "to the top". (To the very pinnacle of some idea. To stand upon the highest square of air there is). We can point out all the risks (like the risk of turning EVERYTHING into NOTHING), but if there's a risk of war, there's no choice but to pursue the next winning method of destruction, just because you know that e.g. Kim Jong Ill (or whatever) is going to be single-mindedly working on achieving this, day and night - especially all the things that are part of the small talk of the public, that don't need to thought up, first - in the way the fist had to be invented from scratch, for instance. I predict that somewhere pretty much "everyone" (all those with the means and interest in doing so) will pursue technologies such as gene editing (for instance people who don't believe in this "God" story you tell them aren't going to get why they shouldn't play that game. So much lovely power to be had if you can recreate yourself as a god.) If it's possible, it will happen. And if it's not you who makes it happen, it'll be someone who might be interested in becoming your enemy (the one human relation you can force on someone else. Can't force lfriendship, for instance.) If it can be, it will be. The person developing it will have the idea that it is going to win all their wars for them - just like the inventor of the fist did. And of course what will actually happen is that The *Total Death Toll* Will Finally Go Down instead of up, and we'll all live happily ever after.

Genetically modified super warriors? To quote Capt. Kirk, "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!

I wouldn’t want to give my kids edited genes to make them better.. no, I want that ship!

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What about empathy, this is a HUGE part of “being human” has anybody in the study that you’ve done wanted to increase the capacity for this, or is this something that is completely intangible? Can it be identified in the sequence? Nurture or nature??

In the game fallout, America found a way to make humans stronger(power armor) and China used stealth but it might be the other way around.