DARPA researches genetically engineered limb regenerating super soldiers

[jimmy olsen]

America Fuck Yeah!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2187276/U-S-Army-Soldiers-able-run-Olympic-speed-wont-need-food-sleep-gene-technology.html#ixzz23QDMnQZ1

Army of the future: Soldiers will be able to run at Olympic speed and won't need food or sleep with gene technology

Tomorrow's soldiers could be able to run at Olympic speeds and will be able to go for days without food or sleep, if new research into gene manipulation is successful.

According to the U.S. Army's plans for the future, their soldiers will be able to carry huge weights, live off their fat stores for extended periods and even regrow limbs blown apart by bombs.

The plans were revealed by novelist Simon Conway, who was granted behind-the-scenes access to the Pentagon's high-tech Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Tomorrow's soldiers could be able to run at Olympic speeds and will be able to go for days without food or sleep, if new research into gene manipulation is successful.

Washington's military scientists are also hoping to work out how to trigger cells to regrow limbs for soldiers maimed by enemy bombs and landmines.

With well-documented cases already of young children regrowing fingers severed in accidents, DARPA is throwing significant sums at research to identify the physiological trigger and activate it in adults.

One area of success has been in shutting off the trigger of sleep. A drug was tested on U.S. Army helicopter pilots that enabled them to stay up longer than 40 hours, with their levels of concentration actually improving after nearly two days without rest.

It is hoped to replace the amphetamine-based drugs that have previously been used to keep servicemen alert during operations.

They had been found to affect decision making and had been blamed for errors in judgement that had led to many so-called incidents of friendly fire.

Professor Joel Garreau of Arizona University confirmed that DARPA was experimenting with turning fat into energy. 'Finding that metabolic switch would wipe out the £40billion diet industry in a heartbeat,' he added.

The plans are just the latest seemingly madcap schemes dreamed up by DARPA - which is known as the U.S. military's 'mad scientist' wing.

Earlier this year it emerged that the agency was funding research into contact lens-mounted displays that could focus information from drones and satellites directly into soldiers' eyeballs, and helmets that could enable troops to communicate telepathically.

DARPA projects are often oddball technology, but it also has a history of far-sighted technological leaps. It invented the first virtual reality devices, and one of the precursors of the modern internet.

[Syt]

[Razgovory]

Tim, you know better then to read the Daily Mail.

[garbon]

I like how he has the first few sentences duplicated.

[DGuller]

I like how he has the first few sentences duplicated.

The first few paragraphs as well.

[garbon]

I like how he has the first few sentences duplicated.

The first few paragraphs as well.

Most of which consist of single sentences.

[Phillip V]

We need to continue the war in Afghanistan until these Super Soldiers arrive.

[FunkMonk]

We need to continue the war in Afghanistan until these Super Soldiers arrive.

I agree. I see absolutely nothing wrong with entrusting the security of the most powerful country on earth to genetically-engineered super soldiers who use their super powers to defeat their enemies, both foreign and domestic.

Nope, nothing can go wrong at all.

[Syt]

[Barrister]

Weren't the Eugenics Wars supposed to take place in the 90s?

[Neil]

Yeah, I think the Botany Bay launched in '96.

[Ed Anger]

NERDS!

[Neil]

NERDS!

Better a nerd than a fag, fag.

[Syt]

Yeah, I think the Botany Bay launched in '96.

Correct. Guess that's why they have Hueys on the cover (no idea what the plot of the book is).