If NASA ever gets a clear directive for interplanetary exploration, a new Hundred-Year Starship could be their version of the Mayflower. And like the first pilgrims, Martian explorers might set sail with the knowledge they would never return home.
DARPA, the Pentagon's advanced concepts think-tank, is looking to take propaganda to the next level, and they're hoping to do so by controlling the very way their targets perceive and interpret the flow of incoming information.