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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. Darpa touched my junk! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    darpa touched my junk liberally. he strapped me in to his darpamobile and he couldnt keep his offensive hands off of me. he was performing many red flag touches. i couldnt believe what the fuck was going on. i told darpa the city would not approve of a millionaire touching an underage kid for free.
    it doesn't help at all that darpa has been spun out after touching everyone's junk. he can hardly see straight after touching Chali's diseased junk. how is he possibly going to explain this to the city when he doesnt help the next person in distress? they'll make him drop trou in front of the whole city again. there it is. the mayor just called and asked why darpa hasn't responded. he has to go.

  2. 503 Service Unavailable ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    What is going on here? Can anyone shed some light? Is Slashdot dying?!

    I do like the lack of the OSDN/Rob Malda Dating Network/Personals ads, though.

  3. 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" ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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.