the inventors claim it could revolutionize surgery and robotics.

So it’ll perform better surgery via the NIH after it makes better killing machines via DARPA?

For the love of Gods, step AWAY from the nomenclature desk, sciencey-types.
Seriously. PFCA. Pee. Eff. Sea. Ay. Pifca. Peefcay.

Nope. Not rolling off the tongue. At all.

Great quasi-nano-silicon-doping-at-an-angle guys, really. Revolutionary. Can’t wait until it invades my body or the locker room. (thanks!) Really, great work, snark aside.

But can you PLEASE try something that rolls off the tongue, before your tech goes wide?

You get TWO consonants with every vowel. That’s IT. (well, S-H, C-R, etc., are freebies). So, regrettably, you need to choose between your children, Planar or Fourier. One must die.

While DARPA is mandated to make ‘better killing machines’ a lot of positive tech spins out of it. Lets not forget the internet, or the GPS receiver that fits in my phone. DARPA’s also working on self driving cars and remote surgical robots that ostensibly will improve the efficacy of our military forces, but will also go on to improve technology in a larger sense. They also support a whole lot of basic research that gets released to the public domain which everyone can benefit from. It’s a pretty fascinating branch of our department of defense.

Meh, this development will probably still end up changing the mousing industry.

Lets not forget the internet

Let’s not… It was ARPA with MIT in tow… not DARPA. But, I guess it doesn’t really matter…

More efficient killing machines cost lives and money. I want my tax money to go into researching sustainable energy and getting the fuck out of every other country filled with people we exploit, destroy, rampage, murder and terrorize for energy resources.

I want my tax money to go towards a true single payer system for healthcare so we can save 44,000 American lives every year plus countless others who suffer in agony without treatment. These people won’t ever get that camera in surgery with our current “health” care system, Spor. They just get the privilege to suffer and die in the richest country in the world.

Sorry, DARPA is not my fucking hero. They are another part of the wasteful, disgusting, expensive problem. Kid yourselves all you want because of shiny new toys that we could develop WITHOUT pouring yet even more money into the insanely corrupt military-industrial complex, but it doesn’t change the reality that it’s another brick in the wall.

It’s likely that in the few minutes you just read this, another American without health insurance just died. And over 12 more will die today.

Once again… super thrilled so much tax money goes to DARPA. I’ve dealt personally with the military and homeland security in the past and I’ve walked away from lucrative contracts because they were unethical. I would have made me a filthy amount of money, but I’ve got something better than that… I look in the mirror just fine.