Darpa, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has partitioned off $6 million of it’s budget for 2010 for a project called BioDesign, whose purpose is to eliminate the “randomness of of natural evolutionary advancement” by genetically engineering and breeding organisms that “produce the intended biological effect.”

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Sequel, perhaps? Apparently, after taking down the great white, Batman decided to jump straight to the ultimate badass, Darth Vader himself.