When we broke the incredible story of the OSI and the Six Million Dollar Man two years ago (see The Bionic Man Exposed!), we knew that it was just the tip of…
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The Coolest Pop Culture Christmas Gift Guide Ever
If you’ve been wracking your brains trying to come up with unique gifts that don’t suck (especially if the person you’re getting it for is over the age of 50 or…
“Have you looked at the sky lately?” (Part 1) The Bionic Man and America’s space program: Did a Soviet Union “death probe” provide the technology for NASA’s Mars rovers?
This is the latest installment of Damper Three’s award-wanting investigative series, The True Costs of the Six Million Dollar Man, which seeks to unearth the truth behind the development and use…
Comparing the most successful space rovers
With the United States and China both actively exploring Mars with high tech rovers, we here at Damper 3 have collected an extensive list* of the strengths and weaknesses of the most…
A Tribute to Investigative Journalism: Carl Kolchak the Night Stalker
CHICAGO – Few in investigative journalism have made the impact Carl Kolchak did. As a reporter for the Independent News Service out of Chicago, he dared to speak truth to power. Specifically,…
One TV Theme To Rule Them All
Television has given us some amazing music and opening imagery over the years. Some of these are so interwoven into our upbringing that we might find ourselves, decades after these shows concluded,…
Exposing the Bionic Man, Part 3: The Unspoken Costs
In part one of this series, we discussed the financial costs of the bionic man program started by the US Government during the 1970s. In this, the third in our groundbreaking and…
Building the Bionic Man: A Look at OSI
Spycraft is of course a dangerous profession. Agents of communism and world domination have prowled the globe, and the United States rose to the threat by investing resources into some pretty cutting…
The Bionic Man Exposed!
Steve Austin, cyborg stud. On March 6, 1973, the U.S. Government quietly authorized $6 million for use on a secret, state-of-the-art weapon system without the knowledge or consent of Congress. A weapon…