DARPA (The number one US military research and development company) wants to create Unkillable Soldiers, mimicing the abilities of animals and other life forms.

So what do you guys think of this line of research?

DARPA is just Chronos in disguise. Only they don't have a lot of money this time around. <.< The Units are out there! Quick, find them!

I can see them trying to create technology that mimics what animals do in order to survive in adverse conditions, but getting that same system into soldiers seems a bit far-fetched to me. Unless there is some huge breakthrough in bio-engineering/dna manipulation etc etc, it would be a waste of tax payers money.

Shot, they're also trying to super charge soldiers. EVE anyone. http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/03/supercharging_s.html

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore.html

Well, genetics is pretty dicey to begin with. That's starting off with relatively simple organisms. Personally, to me messing around with a species' DNA is just begging for trouble. Ideally, if they do decide to go through with the DNA combination, they'd have to choose what aspects of the species they want, then be able to isolate just those parts of the DNA. And that's not the worst of it. Some of those parts may be a part of another function as well. And supercharging a human body sounds more like a Marvel thing with the vague similarities to the Goblin serums.

Though, on the other hand, it may well re-jump-start the human evolution sequence, seeing it's sort of...kinda...okay, it has stalled...and is sorta, kinda going backwards, seeing as how the general population seems to have less common sense, and a whole lot of laziness.

I think that has more to do with technology and government than evolution itself.

Gene splicing isnt something new...they spliced a gene from a antatic fish that made it able to with stand the cold water into a tomato to grow them all year round...so i suppose you take certain unique abilities for animals and splice them into humans

Gene splicing isnt something new...they spliced a gene from a antatic fish that made it able to with stand the cold water into a tomato to grow them all year round...so i suppose you take certain unique abilities for animals and splice them into humans

Sure, but as they say "what goes up must come down." So, there would probably be some downsides certain abilities.

Well then now it's only a matter of time before they start with the enfant terribles project:P

Research has already reached a point to where we can incubate a baby in those big glass jars.

Only thing stopping that is the law that prohibits growing a embryo/fetus older than 6 weeks