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!!

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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On Oct 6, 9:13*am, H the K wrote:
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...keleton-become...

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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I saw a video of something more interesting, a sort of device that
helps people with weak muscles such as from Parkinsons walk and climb
stairs. It can provide either a gentle push to cause the person to
walk on cue (with Parkinsons the cue from the brain gets scrambled) or
can provide a small amount of muscle boost too. It was being
developed by Honda and I would expect to see it on the market in 5
years considering the aging Boomer population.

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 07:14:12 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

I saw a video of something more interesting, a sort of device that
helps people with weak muscles such as from Parkinsons walk and climb
stairs. It can provide either a gentle push to cause the person to
walk on cue (with Parkinsons the cue from the brain gets scrambled) or
can provide a small amount of muscle boost too. It was being
developed by Honda and I would expect to see it on the market in 5
years considering the aging Boomer population.

Yep - a Doug Kamen invention I believe. He's advanced that to
prosthetic limbs and hands. Saw something on the news about his arm -
the guy, double amputee at the shoulder, could pick a grape off a
bunch, peel a tomato - pretty amazing stuff.

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?

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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.

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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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:54:35 -0400, 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!!

This is more for moving heavy stuff around than fighting.
As long as the bad guys have RPGs, the idea of armored soldiers is
fantasy. We don't have that many vehicles that can take an RPG hit
without significant damage. That was why we had to "uparmor" our
HumVees and Bradleys

Jeepers man - lighten up. Dare to dream. :)