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On 10/6/09 9:00 AM, 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!!



Yawn. Powered armor. Yawn.

Starship Troopers, the movie, was a mindless fun shoot-em-up with great
bugs and...


http://tinyurl.com/ydohnx2

What the hell were you looking at?


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