Free DARPA Software Lets Gamers Hunt Submarines

coondoggie writes "If you have ever wanted to go torpedo-to-torpedo with a submariner, now is your chance. The crowdsource-minded folks at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rolled out an online game that lets players try to catch elusive, quiet enemy submarines. According to DARPA the Sonalysts Combat Simulations Dangerous Waters software was written to simulate actual evasion techniques used by submarines, challenging each player to track them successfully."

"But they said"

[stonecypher]

Anyone who's read Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card, is now fidgeting nervously.

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[mysqlrocks]

In Soviet Russia, Submarines hunt you!

Greetings Starfighter

[JoeMerchant]

You have been selected [wikipedia.org] to defend the Frontier from Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.

Re:"But they said"

[Jeremi]

That was my first thought -- "How do we know this isn't a trick like in Ender's Game?"

Only because it's too obvious. When the government really wants people to unwittingly direct battles from afar, it releases the software under its other label, EA.