DARPA Wants to Override Evolution To Make Immortal Synthetic Organisms

Evolution Done Gone Wrong This will turn out well Syfy

From Popular Science:

It's been a long time since a Pentagon project from the DARPA labs truly evoked a "WTF DARPA?!" response, but our collective jaw dropped when we saw the details on a project known as BioDesign. DARPA hopes to dispense with evolutionary randomness and assemble biological creatures, genetically programmed to live indefinitely and presumably do whatever their human masters want. And, Wired's Danger Room reports, when there's the inevitable problem of said creatures going haywire or realizing that they're intelligent and have feelings, there's a planned self-destruct genetic code that could be triggered.

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My Comment: Someone in DARPA has been watching too many science fiction shows.

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