DARPA
About DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the agency was created on February 7, 1958, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to the Soviet's launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. By collaborating with academia, industry, and government partners, DARPA formulates and executes research and development projects to expand the frontiers of technology and science, often beyond immediate U.S. military requirements. The name of the organization first changed from its founding name, ARPA, to DARPA, in March 1972, changing back to ARPA in February 1993, then reverted to DARPA in March 1996.
On the show — 9 mentions total
DARPA, of course, did create a whole bunch of crazy things that are not time travel. Didn't DARPA invent the internet pretty much? The ARPA net.
from 163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 at 00:16:46 · read transcript
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Do you guys remember that genuinely happened in the news last year where someone accidentally trapped a queen bee into the back of her car, drove off and was chased for hours by this huge time and she had no idea why this grandmother going, what the hell is going on? There is one more DARPA thing that Darpa did. So after President Kennedy was assassinated, they had a thing which, in private, they called Operation Barn Door, i.e., we did not manage to save the last president, but we do want to save the next president, okay?
No Such Thing As A Barking Spy, 2017-08-11 · listen
The cat was fine at this stage the cat was fine and then the idea was that the cat would be sent to where suspicious enemies were hanging out so they sent the cat to where they thought a couple of Soviets were in Washington and they let the cat out the van and it got hit by a taxi and killed immediately. There was a robot dog that they did build and develop so this is I'm not sure if your bomb was DARPA.
177: No Such Thing As A Barking Spy, 2017-08-11 · listen
They sent the cat to where they thought a couple of Soviets were in Washington. They let the cow, the van, and it got hit by a taxi and killed immediately. No! There was a robot dog that they did build and develop. This is, I'm not sure if your bomb was DARPA, Dambo. Have you heard of these guys? Darpa? It's a defense advanced research projects agency.
No Such Thing As A Barking Spy, 2017-08-11 · listen
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