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This analyst has some good context to add as well for where we stand in the working dog world. I’ve worked with quite a few over my days and I can understand the purpose.

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The US military gets over 80% of its dogs from Europe, and fewer than half of them turn out fit for service. South Korea hit the same wall back in 2007, and their fix sounds like a movie plot. They took their best drug-sniffing dog, a Lab named Chase, and cloned him seven times. All seven puppies got the same name, Toppy, short for "tomorrow's puppy." They went through the customs service's detector dog program like any other recruit while researchers tracked how they did. Regular puppies made the cut about 30% of the time. The clones made it 86% of the time, and by 2009 they were working airports and harbors across the country.

That's the business case for what Palmer Luckey and Colossal's Ben Lamm just launched. Training one of these dogs can run past $60,000. When half your dogs wash out, every dog that graduates is secretly paying for the one that didn't, so each graduate really costs you something closer to $120,000. Get the pass rate up to Korea's 86% and that drops to about $70,000. You'd knock roughly 40% off every working dog the military buys before the dog does a single thing better. And Warhound wants the dog to do things better. Korea could only copy a great dog. Lamm's team is banking cells from top German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois and then editing the genes. According to Lamm, the dogs that fail usually fail on stuff they were born with, like bad eyesight, cancer risk, hip dysplasia and muscle wasting. So the plan is to copy the best dog they can find and fix whatever would have ended its career.

The cloning runs through ViaGen, a Texas company Colossal owns that has spent years cloning people's pets for around $50,000 a dog. Anduril builds what goes on top of the dog, like vests with sensors that feed data back to the handler. For the record, Palmer doesn't own any of it. Colossal holds the equity, and the CIA's venture fund In-Q-Tel is in the $200 million round with Sequoia. First puppies are due early next year. Korea's clones needed 16 months of training to prove themselves. If Warhound's dogs put up anything close to those numbers, the next generation of America's war dogs gets born in Texas instead of bought from Europe.

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Remember in the Bible when the Israelites were commanded to kill everyone, including women and children?

That’s why they reigned for so long in that area and were able to eliminate insurgency. And that’s also why it can’t be eliminated today, bc we can’t go that far.

Chat GPT

Loved his series of Long Way Up (and Home) on Apple TV.

Yea, we better get Richard Adkerson to open that checkbook back up..

Na dude, conservative as it comes here and i don’t agree with a wall going up there. It’s destroying natural beauty for 1 and secondly if an illegal could make it across that terrain and into here then they deserve to be here. Thats not an area where anyone crosses, period.

I know the guy. He’s had a rough go since graduating from OM with drugs and other life circumstances. I hate this happened to him.

Isn’t the SS payouts throttled in Australia too based on your retirement income and net worth? Meaning you’re not getting everything you put in if you have other personal wealth?

I’ve been there, not as a military dude though. Bucharest was a lot like NOLA but cleaner. You can find trouble if you’re looking for it but the food and culture are incredible.

The people there are straight to the point and respectable. They don’t put up with bs and if you smile they think you’re being deceptive.

Definitely an under rated place to visit.

I have a rivian R1s. 0 degradation after 20 months of owning it.

Also, how much is a new engine or new transmission when those die out?

Great game Georgia. Hope yall can get better at your sportsmanship after yall win this title.