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Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next
ColdWetDog writes "Wired is running a story on DARPA's effort to stave off battlefield casualties by turning injured soldiers into zombies by injecting them with a cocktail of one chemical or another (details to be announced). From the article, 'Dr. Fossum predicts that each soldier will carry a syringe into combat zones or remote areas, and medic teams will be equipped with several. A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and — hopefully — as good as new.' If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam."
Brains in soldiers... lol. Next you tell me about Fox News watchers who know propositional calculus. ^^
There are plenty of smart folks in the military - based on odds, there are probably folks in the Air Force with a better grasp of mathematics than yourself. What they lack is the ability to apply that knowledge to the concept that they're supporting destructive and unconstitutional imperial military adventures.
Sort of like MSNBC viewers who haven't figured out that Keynesian economics is a giant Ponzi scheme meant to grant undue power to central banks, err, I mean governments.
And like any distribution, there are no doubt grunts who earn that name. Age also plays a large role.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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Better yet, not fighting useless wars and not maintaining a global empire of military bases. If you really want to help the soldiers, bring them home. They are not serving the United States, they are serving a very questionable agenda that goes against the best interest of the average US citizen.
Mind the frickin' laser...
Just because some of them sound like they're Nazis, doesn't mean that all of them are. Then again, maybe there's some part of military training that simply requires you to devalue any human life that isn't "on your side".
which is totally what she said
>> So the process is:
>>
>> 1. Put injured people in suspended animation
>> 2. Extract soul (or whatever makes us non-zombies)
>> 3. Reanimate the meatbags
>> 4. train meatbags to vote for the political party of your choice [and tithe]
>> 5. Profit!
They already do this -- it's called religion.
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch