'Be More Than You Can Be.' From my dad.
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wolven7From the people who brought you The Internets, Impact Armour, the BI/OS program, and every other kick ass military tech you've ever heard of:
'. . .Anyone who wants to study human beings with Darpa money has to further apply to a second, federal IRB. “When you’re dealing with things that eventually have to be tested on living things — animals and eventually humans — yeah, you’re much more cautious,” Tether says. “We spend a lot of money on creating IRBs.” Guys like Grahn and Heller hate the extra paperwork. “It’s an incredible pain in the ass,” Grahn moans. “It’s like, ‘Heart monitors may cause chafing. In such event, will discontinue use.’” Tether’s reply: “You can’t just take the gun out in the back and shoot it, you know? It does slow things up, but it’s a good check.”
Even as the research environment grew more restrictive, Mark Roth kept working. In his first tests, he lowered the oxygen content in his mouse enclosures to just 5 percent — and watched his lab mice drop dead in 15 minutes. He gave the second group a whiff of hydrogen sulfide first. They survived in the 5 percent oxygen environment for six hours — unconscious but alive. Roth was ecstatic. He even brought his kids to see the mice in stasis and took pictures of the rodents while they were out. “I’d never done that in 30 years of research,” he says. “But this is one of those once-in-a-lifetime chances to change the playing field.”'
I'm really glad that DARPA's stopped fucking about, here. In the old days it went like this: "Well, you see, what we want to do is take this metallic substance and make it behave like unto tapioca, such that when it is struck it becomes a solid complex rather than a liquid. We call this 'Impact Armour.'
"Also, we've spliced a human brain with plant matter, and now the plant can perform basic computations."
"WHAT?!"
"I said 'Impact Amrour,' sir."
"Oh. Okay."
Those were the old days... Now, we have this, in Wired.
But please remember this simple thing about DARPA: Whatever they show you is ~20% hype, and ~40% product. They are trying to get you really super psyched about what they're doing, so you won't complain to Congress. This is because the unseen 40% is so far past what they're showing you that you probably wouldn't believe it without a slow build, and it might scare the more reactive members of the populace into trying to shut it down.
I keep telling you to look at their yearly budgets, and see what you find there. Maybe now that Wired said something about it... X-P
Anywho: DARPA in the news and blogs! Woohoo!
'. . .Anyone who wants to study human beings with Darpa money has to further apply to a second, federal IRB. “When you’re dealing with things that eventually have to be tested on living things — animals and eventually humans — yeah, you’re much more cautious,” Tether says. “We spend a lot of money on creating IRBs.” Guys like Grahn and Heller hate the extra paperwork. “It’s an incredible pain in the ass,” Grahn moans. “It’s like, ‘Heart monitors may cause chafing. In such event, will discontinue use.’” Tether’s reply: “You can’t just take the gun out in the back and shoot it, you know? It does slow things up, but it’s a good check.”
Even as the research environment grew more restrictive, Mark Roth kept working. In his first tests, he lowered the oxygen content in his mouse enclosures to just 5 percent — and watched his lab mice drop dead in 15 minutes. He gave the second group a whiff of hydrogen sulfide first. They survived in the 5 percent oxygen environment for six hours — unconscious but alive. Roth was ecstatic. He even brought his kids to see the mice in stasis and took pictures of the rodents while they were out. “I’d never done that in 30 years of research,” he says. “But this is one of those once-in-a-lifetime chances to change the playing field.”'
I'm really glad that DARPA's stopped fucking about, here. In the old days it went like this: "Well, you see, what we want to do is take this metallic substance and make it behave like unto tapioca, such that when it is struck it becomes a solid complex rather than a liquid. We call this 'Impact Armour.'
"Also, we've spliced a human brain with plant matter, and now the plant can perform basic computations."
"WHAT?!"
"I said 'Impact Amrour,' sir."
"Oh. Okay."
Those were the old days... Now, we have this, in Wired.
But please remember this simple thing about DARPA: Whatever they show you is ~20% hype, and ~40% product. They are trying to get you really super psyched about what they're doing, so you won't complain to Congress. This is because the unseen 40% is so far past what they're showing you that you probably wouldn't believe it without a slow build, and it might scare the more reactive members of the populace into trying to shut it down.
I keep telling you to look at their yearly budgets, and see what you find there. Maybe now that Wired said something about it... X-P
Anywho: DARPA in the news and blogs! Woohoo!
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Date: 2007-03-09 02:55 am (UTC)TMS (http://www.wireheading.com/brainstim/savant.html) how I love thee.
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Date: 2007-03-09 03:15 am (UTC)