"Terminator" suits for the US military

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Posted by imokruok on Mar-06-2004 20:27:

"Terminator" suits for the US military

This stuff is so cool. Through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant (the same group that brought you the internet), UC-Berkeley has come up with an exoskeleton for the human body that makes a 70-pound backpack feel like 5 pounds. Making it all the easier to kick someone else's ass.

Check out the pics and movies here: http://me.berkeley.edu/hel/bleex.htm

Posted by PHALPAX on Mar-06-2004 22:23:

Re: "Terminator" suits for the US military

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Originally posted by imokruok
This stuff is so cool. Through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant (the same group that brought you the internet), UC-Berkeley has come up with an exoskeleton for the human body that makes a 70-pound backpack feel like 5 pounds. Making it all the easier to kick someone else's ass.

Check out the pics and movies here: http://me.berkeley.edu/hel/bleex.htm

This is perhaps the only part of the gov't where I can say that I proudly pay taxes.

Posted by tathi on Mar-06-2004 23:57:

does it come with an Austrian accent?

Posted by George Smiley on Mar-07-2004 00:36:

Great news...looks like it will be twice as easy for Americans to kill British soldiers now!

(Hope we're gonna be investin in some hi-tech body armour to counter this new threat!)

Posted by St_Andrew on Mar-07-2004 00:43:

actually, even the swedish (sucky) defence are doing this things, they also have some kind of helmet with a lot of cool things in it. i don't know too much about it though, but it is cool as hell

Posted by George Smiley on Mar-07-2004 00:57:

It does actually look quite good, but seeing as Geoff Hoon gives our troops equipment the Russians in WW2 would have turned their noses up at, I dont think we will be seeing any British terminators for some time yet!

(Not that the most highly trained soldiers in the world need terminator suits! You big bunch of pansies!)

Posted by Spin Doctor on Mar-07-2004 04:04:

It wont be long before robots are running around on battlefields, wars being decided by the best command & conquer players.

Posted by PHALPAX on Mar-07-2004 04:07:

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Originally posted by Spin Doctor
It wont be long before robots are running around on battlefields, wars being decided by the best command & conquer players.

I knew those days spent on C&C would pay off

Posted by Dmatrox on Mar-07-2004 05:20:

is it bulletproof?

Posted by Psionic on Mar-07-2004 05:27:

I wonder if that'll be offered to school students

Posted by icyhandofcrap on Mar-07-2004 06:31:

Haha that might help.

Not me, mine backpacks only say, 10 lbs or so.

Posted by King_Mack on Mar-07-2004 23:54:

i saw this on discovery channel...maaan you should see some of the stuff that the US Military is coming up with. Theyre coming out with helmets that work on PURE video projection...and you get a panoramic view of the environment, which will scrap the need to turning around to watch your back.

Posted by imokruok on Mar-08-2004 01:47:

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Originally posted by King_Mack
maaan you should see some of the stuff that the US Military is coming up with.

I saw DARPA in the news again today. click. Apparently, they've also got their fingers into fusion these days. Do you remember the movie "Chain Reaction" with Keanu Reeves? In the movie, they were working on a type of fusion called sonoluminescence that the national nuclear labs have been toying with for a while. Apparently, they have no proof of fusion yet, but parts of the design are operating as they would if there were fusion occurring.

Imagine, clean, unlimited energy from cartridges of water or basic solvent. It would be the perfect source of energy to make laser guns for our new soldiers in biometric suits! The future is too cool...

Posted by Alccode on Mar-08-2004 02:17:

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Originally posted by imokruok
I saw DARPA in the news again today. click. Apparently, they've also got their fingers into fusion these days. Do you remember the movie "Chain Reaction" with Keanu Reeves? In the movie, they were working on a type of fusion called sonoluminescence that the national nuclear labs have been toying with for a while. Apparently, they have no proof of fusion yet, but parts of the design are operating as they would if there were fusion occurring.

Imagine, clean, unlimited energy from cartridges of water or basic solvent. It would be the perfect source of energy to make laser guns for our new soldiers in biometric suits! The future is too cool...

Fusion research hardly originated with DARPA. Funny, when I read your sentence, "Imagine, clean, unlimited energy..." the rest would logically have been, "to power our 21st century way of life, and reduce pollution caused by conventional fossil fuel energy methods."

There is nothing cool about unlimited energy sources for lasers: saying that is just videogame mentality, and this is real life. Unlimited lasers are just horrible.

Back to fusion. Fusion research has been going on for decades, and stable reactions are commonplace. The whole point of fusion research today is to reach commercial breakthrough, for widespread use. I can't wait for that day!

Posted by Alccode on Mar-08-2004 02:22:

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Originally posted by imokruok

This guy would be better off exercising and developing those scrawny arms. Then he wouldn't even need that uber-expensive mechanical monstrosity.

Though he's probably just one of the research folks, taking pride in his project.

I have to admit, this is really cool. If only it wasn't designed for the facilitation of killing people!

EDIT: does this remind anyone else of the robot walkers of Zion in the 3rd Matrix movie?

Posted by imokruok on Mar-08-2004 05:11:

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Originally posted by Alccode
Fusion research hardly originated with DARPA.

Hmm...I don't think I said that. If I did, it's not what I meant. (At my own university, they've been running their own Tokamak for quite some time.) DARPA just happens to be involved with this sonoluminescence stuff.

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There is nothing cool about unlimited energy sources for lasers: saying that is just videogame mentality, and this is real life. Unlimited lasers are just horrible.

I was just trying to relate the news to the thread. You know, terminators, laser guns, etc. Although, it's really not much different than "unlimited bullets." Even troops that have thousands of rounds of .50 cal stored in their jeep don't machine gun indiscriminately.

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The whole point of fusion research today is to reach commercial breakthrough, for widespread use. I can't wait for that day!

Ditto on that! My laptop batteries suck.

Posted by occrider on Mar-08-2004 16:37:

2004

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2025?

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2050?

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2100?

At this rate it's doubtful I'll be seeing terminators in my lifetime

Goddamned DARPA with its slow-ass government engineers. When can we privatise it and call it skynet already???