On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:04:35 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:12:04 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:00:07 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

One of the more time honored and venerable staples of science fiction,
presented most effectively in Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" is
powered armor - in effect, turning the infantry into mobile tanks. In
fact, the one reason Verhoeven's movie "Starship Troopers" was such a
bomb with scifi fans, quite beyond the *******ization of Heinlein's
main story line, was the lack of powered armor. "Alien" was another
exoskeleton/powered armor used by Ripley to defeat the Alien.

Well, guess what?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/25/s...ening-reality/

WHOO HOO!!

Didn't Joe Haldeman's "Mindbridge" have a type of exo-skeleton
enviro-suit?

Yep. It post dates "Troopers" though.

I know it does. I think "Mindbridge" was published in the late '70's,
if I remember correctly.

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