The Pentagon wants Immortal Synthetic Organisms. Seriously
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The Pentagon's advanced research division has set aside $6 million from its next budget for research on the creation of "synthetic organisms" whose DNA can be altered to make them live forever, or die on command, and even keep a genetic record of what they have been doing.
In its 2011 budget (PDF, 522 pages), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency lays out its intention to create "BioDesign," a project to create artificial life, presumably with military purposes in mind.
"BioDesign eliminates the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement primarily by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies to produce the intended biological effect," the DARPA document states.
The agency says it wants to develop "a robust understanding of the collective mechanisms that contribute to cell death" so as to "enable a new generation of regenerative cells that could ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely."
But, if those organisms should malfunction or run the course of their usefulness, the agency also wants to have the ability to have them die on command, what it calls a "self-destruct option."
The agency also wants to create "tamper-proof" genetic codes, so that enemy forces can't reprogram the life forms to switch sides.
And finally, DARPA also wants these organisms' genetic sequences to "record" what they have been doing, presumably for surveillance purposes, "similar to a traceable serial number on a handgun."
Reporting at Wired.com, Katie Drummond says the Pentagon is "up against some vexing, fundamental laws of nature."
"And then there's all of the ethical dilemmas involved in literally playing ? ," comments John Funk at The Escapist. "But that's only if the science actually works."
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/pentagon-synthetic-organisms/
Congratulations, Alex Jones fans! Have the ? at it.
In its 2011 budget (PDF, 522 pages), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency lays out its intention to create "BioDesign," a project to create artificial life, presumably with military purposes in mind.
"BioDesign eliminates the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement primarily by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies to produce the intended biological effect," the DARPA document states.
The agency says it wants to develop "a robust understanding of the collective mechanisms that contribute to cell death" so as to "enable a new generation of regenerative cells that could ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely."
But, if those organisms should malfunction or run the course of their usefulness, the agency also wants to have the ability to have them die on command, what it calls a "self-destruct option."
The agency also wants to create "tamper-proof" genetic codes, so that enemy forces can't reprogram the life forms to switch sides.
And finally, DARPA also wants these organisms' genetic sequences to "record" what they have been doing, presumably for surveillance purposes, "similar to a traceable serial number on a handgun."
Reporting at Wired.com, Katie Drummond says the Pentagon is "up against some vexing, fundamental laws of nature."
"And then there's all of the ethical dilemmas involved in literally playing ? ," comments John Funk at The Escapist. "But that's only if the science actually works."
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/pentagon-synthetic-organisms/
Congratulations, Alex Jones fans! Have the ? at it.
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thought it said orgasms
disappointed -
Them tinfoil hat wearing sumbitches sound saner and saner every year dont they?
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DarcSkies777 wrote: »Them tinfoil hat wearing sumbitches sound saner and saner every year dont they?
Yeah........but not really. Its like they constantly calibrate their positions so they're always batfuck fringe. If they score a broken clock moment politically, they compensate by saying Jay-Z's a 3rd degree Mason with a base inside the Hollow Earth. -
are you trying to tell me that's NOT a true statement?Swiffness! wrote: »...they compensate by saying Jay-Z's a 3rd degree Mason with a base inside the Hollow Earth. -
Swiffness! wrote: »Yeah........but not really. Its like they constantly calibrate their positions so they're always batfuck fringe. If they score a broken clock moment politically, they compensate by saying Jay-Z's a 3rd degree Mason with a base inside the Hollow Earth.
lol @ you and Janklow -
The only thing immortal are cancer cells.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAx8QUaKG18&feature=player_embedded
This was from last week and of course now the military wants it. -
i MIGHT be okay with bumping a two-year old thread ... but damn it, this "cyborg flesh" already has a thread (Researchers grow cyborg tissue that can sense its environment) AND a redundant thread that was closed (Harvard researchers create cyborg tissues). perhaps we could start checking these threads out?
also, i am not cool with bumping two-year-old threads
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