The CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology
theintercept.com
While skeptics doubt the prospects for de-extinction, the CIA’s venture capital firm deems powerful genetic manipulation tools worth the money.

It remains to be seen if Colossal, with In-Q-Tel’s backing, can make good on its promises. And it’s unclear what, exactly, the intelligence world might gain from the use of CRISPR. But perhaps the CIA shares the company’s altruistic, if vague, motives: “To advance the economies of biology and healing through genetics. To make humanity more human. And to reawaken the lost wilds of Earth. So we, and our planet, can breathe easier.”

Techbros stop making the word "human" creepy and dehumanizing challenge. Difficulty level: MORE HUMAN

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Is this going to be Acoustic Kitty but much, much, much, much, much, much bigger?

    The first time I heard about Acoustic Kitty - I was 100% sure it was pure copypasta shared by dipshit redditors. But I was wrong...

    Acoustic Kitty

    Acoustic Kitty is a CIA project launched by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology, which in the 1960s intended to use cats to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. In an hour-long procedure a veterinary surgeon implanted a microphone in the cat's ear canal, a small radio transmitter at the base of its skull and a thin wire into its fur.