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DARPA Offers No Food for Thought

Posted by michael on from the oatmeal-cookie-bar-deemed-harmful dept.

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?"

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  1. Saurons? by DJTodd242 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other unrelated news, the Pentagon reports that the Aleutian islands will be renamed "Haven" to host a new project called "Sauron" ...

  2. My life for Aiur by John+Courtland · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hate the zealot rush. I've been getting back into Starcraft because it's the only game my buddy and I can play due to his school's retarded NAT firewall. The million man march or the battle cruiser domination fleet is the only proper response ;)

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    1. Re:My life for Aiur by bad+enema · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah but by the time you built up this Wraith Horde the other guy will have noticed and started pumping out the Goon Doom rather than Zealots.

  3. Re:Bad news by jrockway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tell them that the "enemy combatant" killed their girlfriend. That should make them mad.

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  4. Re:There are more pressing needs first by ratamacue · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're right, but government doesn't profit from peace. Government profits from war. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but as the saying goes, war is the health of the state.