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DARPA Offers No Food for Thought
frank249 writes "Wired News has an article outlining the US Defense Advanced Research Projects agency's (DARPA) research into ways to keep soldiers fighting for up to 5 days without food. The DARPA project, called 'Metabolic Dominance' or 'peak soldier performance' is part of a wider, future-facing Pentagon research push to develop grunts who are pretty much immune to normal human demands. Perhaps they should call this the Universal Soldier project?"
YOu forgot to add what experimental subjects did they use. Actually, point taken. Everyone knows that anyway.
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No, DARPA wants fighting men and women to be able to cope with the psychological traumas of battle without losing the intiative, insight, intelligence and independence that makes an American soldier such a formidable warrior.
You obviously are a clueless idiot as to what the military in this country is like. You've been listening to too much John Kerry/Jane Fonda love festing.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
I assume you volunteer to be the first casualty on the next terror attack, then?
Al Qaeda laugh their heads off every time they hear some fool like you spout off.
"If only the US had a President like that," they say. "We could fly a jet into a building once a month."
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
Perhaps you might think differently if you were one of the ones in the World Trade Center that jumped out from a 70 story window because that's the BEST option you had. Or if you were a close relative of one who did.
Have some respect.
Or will it take another attack before you figure out that that the US needs better security?
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
Now your mocking the Marines. That sounds like a dangerous habit to have. Oh well, nothing to be done about the people that only complain about their country and don't serve it. I said be prepared to die for your country. I didn't say you should want to. The point is, unit, corps, country, then yourself, that's how your importance levels should go.
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While I admire that, it's unclear whether that was necessary or not and that is certainly not a justification for a whole new government agency.
It's certianly not justification for an entire government agency. Two points: my list was certianly not exhaustive and you clearly stated "If you think that organization has accomplished anything more than erasing parts of the constitution while no one's looking, you're incredibly naive" which is obvioulsy incorrect based one even my partial list.
I'm not a troll, albeit I'm now going off-topic. I don't appreciate undeserved accusations though.
You deserve the accusation. If you don't want accusations like that, don't make sweeping generalizations that are clearly false.
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
Oops I mistyped, it's actually
Unit
God
Country Sorry. BUt that is the hierarchy. Self never even comes into it. There is a reason for this. and don't ever comare the most elite fighting force in the world with the South American Military. Anyhow, this is no way to spend my leave. I'm off to PT, I suggest you get up and do the same, might clear your mind of its idiocy
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