What?! DARPA is funding the Texas A&M Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS) to develop a cocktail that will extend the “golden period” when injured war fighters have the best chance of recovery from massive bloodloss? They’ve awarded 9.9 million to TIPS to develop an injection that will place the injured soldier into a state of suspended animation where the body does not require oxygen, as well as stopping further blood loss (the heart stops beating). The soldier will have a much longer window of treatment after which they will be “reanimated” and once recovered fully, back out on the battlefield in search of brains.

They’ve successfully conducted trial on rats, and now they’re using pigs because their cardiovascular system is close to a human’s. Is this the new swine flu? Will we see a horde of crazed pigs shambling through the streets in search of man-bacon?