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Raytheon Exoskeleton brings 'Iron Man' to life
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| 05/02/2008
| R. Colin Johnson
Posted on 05/02/2008 6:42:02 PM PDT by TLI
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To: skinkinthegrass
1988 Atlanta DNC “Sex Romp Video” Convention?
Wasn’t that Rob Lowe?
To: A CA Guy
One noisy feedback pot and it'll you break you like a toothpick.
<}B^), I think.
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posted on
05/03/2008 6:40:14 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Nihilism never amounted to anything.)
To: Mr. Blond
Which I can’t figure out, considering Eric Bana starred in a Hulk movie like two years ago.
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posted on
05/03/2008 6:42:46 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Maybe! I just re-read Haldeman’s “The Forever War”, they had (will have in the future) exoskeleton vacuum suits with more bells and whistles than you could imagine.
I liked Ripley’s cargo handler’s exoskeleton. The prop people put in wear and tear, and it just looked like Caterpillar or similar, right down to the controls.
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posted on
05/03/2008 8:36:48 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Alas Babylon!
Wasnt that Rob Lowe?.....
I guess, it was
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posted on
05/03/2008 3:27:16 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
To: TLI; All
As a side note, I saw an Army(?) documentary about this technology years ago, perhaps on the Military Channel. A robotic, back-pack carrying unit was attached to a GI who was walking around with it. The robot connected to the GI with leg braces, the braces not only actually supporting the weight of the back-pack and keeping things in balance regarding the walking motion, but also acting as the steering wheel for the robot, the leg-braces tracking the motion of the GI's legs. Regardess of the weight of the back-pack and robotic unit, the GI was said to have been feeling only about five pounds of weight.
The only thing that I thought was clumsy about the robot is that it was power by a gas engine above the back-pack near the GI's shoulders, if I remember correctly.
Also, the robot in the documentary was a plain Jane, not the flashy, Hollywood-type robots that I see in the picts.
To: uptoolate
SABBATH!!! Heavy boots of lead fills his victims full of dread!!!
Fregards
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posted on
05/03/2008 4:07:21 PM PDT
by
Ransomed
(Son of Ransomed says Keep the Faith!)
To: Xenalyte
Well, that Hulk movie was pretty bad, so Marvel is making another one the right way. After that apparently is a Thor movie, and then the X-men spin-offs.
To: Red Steel
So whose next?Sea Man!
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posted on
05/03/2008 7:03:12 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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