6 Terrifying New Weapons Being Created by the Pentagon

[hillbilly123069]

:eek:
http://www.alternet.org/investigations/149750/6_terrifying_new_weapons_being_created_by_the_pent agon/?page=entire

[Carson]

The writing in that article should be listed as number seven.

[2young2vote]

Some of those are pretty interesting. The Strategically Hardened Facility defeat sounds pretty interesting and so does the Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator.

[Pericles]

It is very easy for ignorant people to think that success in war may be gained by the use of some wonderful invention rather than by hard fighting and superior leadership. GEN Patton

[pcosmar]

What? No Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/marvin-the-martian.gif

[Dr.3D]

What? No Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/marvin-the-martian.gif

We can be sure it is on the drawing boards.

[ihsv]

My guess is that most, if not all of these weapons will never see the light of day. Most military contracts end up "overbudget" and subsequently restructured, re-awarded, or outright cancelled. Very lucrative for the Military industry. They get gobs and gobs of money for nothing. The Future Combat Systems program, the Zumwalt destroyer program, the LCS, Commanche LAH, APKWS, etc., are perfect examples.

[Anti Federalist]

I don't have to look at future weapons to be concerned:


After Nixon declared an end to the U.S. bio-weapons program debate in the Army centered around whether or not toxin weapons were included in the president's declaration.[19] Following Nixon's November 1969 order, scientists at Fort Detrick worked on one toxin, Staphylococcus enterotoxin type B (SEB), for several more months.[19] Nixon ended the debate when he added toxins to the bio-weapons ban in February 1970.[17] The U.S. also ran a series of experiments with anthrax, code named Project Bacchus, Project Clear Vision and Project Jefferson in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

That was the source of the anthrax used in the 2001 attacks.

The agent that highly placed government officials, including the president, were already taking an antibiotic regimen to counteract, weeks before the first release.

[Anti Federalist]

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/051005/FLURECREATE.gif

ATLANTA — It sounds like a sci-fi thriller. For the first time, scientists have made from scratch the Spanish flu virus that killed millions of people in 1918.

Why? To help them understand how to better fend off a future global epidemic from the bird flu spreading in Southeast Asia.

Researchers believe their work offers proof the 1918 flu originated in birds, and provides insights into how it attacked and multiplied in humans. On top of that, this marks the first time an infectious agent behind a historic pandemic has ever been reconstructed.

The scientists involved in the project contend there’s no real risk to public safety. The vials of this frightening germ — about 10 of them — are locked away at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said Terrence Tumpey, the CDC research scientist who constructed the virus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9598565/ns/health-cold_and_flu/

[awake]

They 'think' they are making it to better understand how to fight the Spanish Flu. Just like the American military, being in 170 countries across the globe, are spreading "democracy". The mind can be convinced to do very evil things as long as the actions can be cloaked in great and wonderful humanitarianism.

Combined with his sliminess, Ben Bernanke, all things are printable.

[Dr.3D]

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/HEALTH/051005/FLURECREATE.gif

ATLANTA — It sounds like a sci-fi thriller. For the first time, scientists have made from scratch the Spanish flu virus that killed millions of people in 1918.

Why? To help them understand how to better fend off a future global epidemic from the bird flu spreading in Southeast Asia.

Researchers believe their work offers proof the 1918 flu originated in birds, and provides insights into how it attacked and multiplied in humans. On top of that, this marks the first time an infectious agent behind a historic pandemic has ever been reconstructed.

The scientists involved in the project contend there’s no real risk to public safety. The vials of this frightening germ — about 10 of them — are locked away at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said Terrence Tumpey, the CDC research scientist who constructed the virus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9598565/ns/health-cold_and_flu/

So now that they understand how to do it, wouldn't they play it safe and destroy the virus? I can see no need in keeping it around.

[Anti Federalist]

They 'think' they are making it to better understand how to fight the Spanish Flu. Just like the American military, being in 170 countries across the globe, are spreading "democracy". The mind can be convinced to do very evil things as long as the actions can be cloaked in great and wonderful humanitarianism.

Exactly.

When this was announced, five years ago now, there was some pretty heated dissension from within the medical and scientific community itself, that this was not needed, basically boiling down to, "WTF are you doing??!!"

[Anti Federalist]

So now that they understand how to do it, wouldn't they play it safe and destroy the virus? I can see no need in keeping it around.

That's a good question.

Let's ask them, shall we?

[pcosmar]

So now that they understand how to do it, wouldn't they play it safe and destroy the virus? I can see no need in keeping it around.

You assume that their given reasons for research are the truth.

I do not.
Nor do I think Baxter's "mistake" was an accident.
Well , maybe sending it to the wrong lab that tested it was a mistake.

[Carson]

When I first heard about these guys digging in the grave yard of the 1918 pandemic it sounded like one of the most idiotic things I had heard of. Many years later I met a scientist at a rally against illegal immigration that was the guy that used that virus to develop it into a bird flu vaccine that I think had some use with the bird flu thing that was killing birds in Asia a while back. Remember them having to kill and burn our bury their livestock. It didn't sound so stupid then...sort of.

I just heard of a new one.

Some scientist are worried that a virus may jump over to humans. They are experimenting with trying to get it to jump over to mice I think it was. They want to learn more about it. Seems pretty drifty giving it a helping hand.

I'm trying to figure out where I saw it.


P.S. Found it on Fark.com (http://www.fark.com/).

Fark headline:

Zombie deer in Wisconsin seek human hosts

The story linked on Fark with the headline (With picture what a prion might look like):

http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/115246649.html

"The jury is still out on whether CWD can go into humans," said Soto, a professor of neurology at the University of Texas Houston Medical School. "The more CWD is in the wild, the more virulent it may be to humans."

Soto said the next step is to inject the prions that were developed in the lab into the brains of mice that have been genetically engineered to produce normal human prion protein.

If those mice develop a fatal brain disease, there will be more reason to be concerned that the deer disease may one day spread to people.


Link to the Fark comments:

http://www.fark.com/comments/5930413/Zombie-deer-in-Wisconsin-seek-human-hosts

[WorldonaString]

What? No Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
http://www.screenhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/marvin-the-martian.gif

haha Marvins the best!

[Pauls' Revere]

The bat-winged drone X47B jet designed to launch from carriers:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usmilitaryaerospaceindustryrobots