Department of Defense and flying snakes

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

An unusual but creative  funding source for biological research

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112207014.html

Now if we could only figure out a way to market the killing potential of 
fossil theropods. Remember that in the movie Aliens 2 the real reason 
for the rescue ship going to the planet Acheron was not to save the 
settlers, but to protect the aliens because of their tremendous 
potential to the bioweapons industry on Earth.

Dan