Posted on 06/07/2013 6:12:55 AM PDT by seeker41
But, it all began simply as ARPA, with the original IMPs being H-316s (”H” as in Honeywell).
They are also interested in “exotheology.”
They used taxpayer dollars for a workshop entitled, “Did Jesus Die for Klingons, Too?”
Spelling first. It's grammar.
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The naval equivalent to DARPA is the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and their website used to be amazing, describing even the unclassified research they were doing. They really covered the gamut of the applied sciences.
Since the Patriot Act, the site is now pretty bare bones. But for a time, between them and DARPA, it came across as “old fashioned science done by scientists.” With none of the modern hooey done by most pseudo scientists.
That sounds weird, even for DARPA. Wonder if that is a "new Obama Intitiave"? After all, if Muslims, why not Klingons? Or perhaps Obama is really a Klingon, masquerading as a Muslim.
Anyway, I thought C.S. Lewis had answered this long ago.
Doesn't ONR long predate DARPA??? And in fact didn't the need for DARPA arise from the need for DARPA-like capabilities for the other services??
I seem to remember reading in Bucky Fuller's (a distant cousin) autobiography that he learned "big-project thinking" from his training as a Naval Officer. He also mentioned that the USN had learned the capacity for "big-think" from the British Navy, and that, at that time, the other services did not have a similar agency/thought process.
Thanks for the ping. DARPA has always planted seeds out beyond the edge of the present envelopes, hence the name Advanced Research Projects.
I got curious and answered my own question:
ONR, established 1923
DARPA, established 1958
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