Martin Caidin on the Six Million Dollar Man Project

We miss you terribly, Marty. Blue skies!

Wow, this is an interesting video. One of Martin Caidin, author of Cyborg and the Six Million Dollar Man derivative. As we can see, he turned into a bit of a kook. Analysing the timeline of events here, he had written a book in 1968 called "The God Machine" which included his concept of bionic implants. However, the Northrop M2F2 crash had occurred in 1967 so he clearly had the opportunity to have been aware of it. So all it took was to put the pieces together.

The pilot of that crash was Bruce Peterson, who survived, suffering injuries to his limbs (I can't remember how many or how bad) and he eventually lost the sight of one of his eyes. So the Cyborg novel was, with this first hand testmony, clearly a colourisation of Peterson's story. Peterson lived and flew again but not as an X-plane pilot. Peterson hated watching the opening credits of the Six Million Dollar Man as it meant him re-living that terrible crash all over again. Caidin's nonsense about there being an advanced bionics/cybernetics medical programme in the military is pure fiction and perhaps if he believed that then he either believed it as a conspiracy or it was his sole delusion. Either way, he did well out of it.

I miss you Marty.

Caidin was quite a nut, and an imaginative writer. True. But off his rocker. His success on a couple projects really went to his head. Aquarius Mission is a good example. It's bonkers but pulpy fun and clearly intended to try to make a franchise or movie/TV adaptation.

And to think, we now have advanced prosthetics for those who lost an arm or leg due to injury or illness.

I'm certain bionic (for lack of a better word) eyes & ears may become a reality sometime in the future.

Great

Yes it’s me bro Yes judtunderestimate me