DARPA has a crappy new idea to help soldiers
Aaron Mehta
Some might argue that DARPA has flushed plenty of cash down the toilet over the years, but the agency’s newest project hopefully won’t stink.
On Tuesday, DARPA pushed out an announcement of a new program known as ADAPTER (Advanced Acclimation and Protection Tool for Environmental Readiness), which aims to create a biological human “travel adaptor†to mitigate the worst effects of traveling abroad: number one, a lack of sleep caused by time change, and number two, the infamous traveler’s diarrhea.
The agency wants to develop a “a transient, non-genetic means of extending and enhancing war fighter readiness,†which will both quickly acclimate the sleep cycle to new time zones and eliminate the bacteria behind diarrhea.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/04/08/darpa-has-a-crappy-new-idea-to-help-soldiers/
