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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. In the Soviet Union. by hoggoth · · Score: 0, Troll

    In the United States, soldiers take Metabolic Dominance nutraceuticals that dampen their pain sensors, raise the metabolism while maintaining lowered temperatures, and kick Mitochondria into hyperdrive.

    In the Soviet Union soldiers drink coffee.

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    1. Re:In the Soviet Union. by Tackhead · · Score: 0, Troll
      > In the United States, soldiers take Metabolic Dominance nutraceuticals that dampen their pain sensors, raise the metabolism while maintaining lowered temperatures, and kick Mitochondria into hyperdrive.
      > In the Soviet Union soldiers drink coffee.

      In Soviet Union, coffno, that's just what you want me to say, so I'm not gonna make the obvious cliche. Obviously, IT'S A TRAP!