Four DARPA Projects That Could Be Bigger Than The Internet

Defense One ^ | March 20, 2014 | Patrick Tucker

[Wyatt's Torch]

Billions are going into both of these on the private side.

[tanknetter]

It’s incredibly ironic to see people criticizing DARPA using a medium (the Internet) it was instrumental in creating. Using OPM.

[ckilmer]

I know bill gates is funding terrapower (and the Chinese are firmly backing their thorium efforts as are the Indians and Canadians.) But so far I’ve read nothing but peanuts backing the other two main US private thorium/waste uranium ventures — Flibe, and Transatomic. And I’ve heard of no significant backing for the wunderkind Taylor Wilson for his efforts.

Do you have inside information or are you just assuming.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Not assuming. I am in the water business (peripheral to desal). Also one of our subs plays in the nuclear business.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hmmm... Number four worries me.

As much as they could use it to quickly STOP a pandemic... They could also use it to rapidly start one. As in a designer virus pandemic. Maybe one that only works on particular people that share a common DNA factor.

Hate White Anglo-Saxon descended males? The Founding Father’s Flu. Guaranteed to stop Obama’s TEA Party “problem”.

Far fetched, I know.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... they didn’t survive the budget cuts... and Ben’s retirement... or did they? That corrupt officer in the Pentagon who steered business to Boeing regardless of the bid hurt Lockheed’s military sales I suppose, and Boeing started a black projects group mimicking the Skunk Works (even the name), but I’m sure there’s always stuff going on that we don’t hear about until 40 years has gone by. Anymore...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5Ahat8nro

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

It’ll be a while yet — we’ve got a few more years of the Kenyan, and that will be followed by massive fed spending cuts and tax cuts, as well as Keystone XL approval, and sorting out whatever Obama’s next war will be.