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Subject:	*Re: Big things (was Re: For Those That Don't Get* the 2nd Amendement (was Re: Those stupid liberal))**
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Followup-To:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2002 18:44:20 GMT
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The following post of James's is off-topic for debate. :-) But it's neat anyway. XFUT geek Let's see, we have John Deere prototyping walker/spider timber harvesters, and Caterpillar prototyping mechs. What's next? GM showing hovercars? Turboprop floatplanes? (no wait, that was in this month's issue of Private Pilot) How about a wristwatch that can double as a TV remote for when you're in bars and want to change the channel? (no wait, that was on CNN yesterday) In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes: > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes: > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > > To me that means anything man portable. (up to and including mechs :-)... > > > see Real Life a while back where Tony and the New Girl duke it out in mechs > > > they built out of scrap computer cases they melted down) > > > > <snip> > > > > Bring on the mechs!!! I would love to see a load lifter a la "Aliens" or an > > ED-209 (under human control, of course) stomping about! Dunno if all that > > Japanimation mech stuff is possible, but it would be neat to see. > > Interesting note in reference to the Aliens Power Loader - Caterpillar > actually built it, and it actually works. Well, sort of. The footage of > the loader lifting heavy things and walking around with them is live footage > - what they don't show you is the cables running from the two 'shoulder > spines' on the loader up to a crane. The crane is what keeps it from > falling on it's face when it picks up something heavy and over-balances. > > There's some neat articles out there on mechanical exoskeletons, and > technology has come a long way, but the net-net is that other things are > still cheaper and more versatile. > > Mechs are still, alas, more fiction than science. :( > > James

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		Re: Big things (was Re: For Those That Don't Get the 2nd Amendement (was Re: Those stupid liberal))
(...) GM may not be making hovercars, but the good people at Moller certainly are. (URL) know this link's been posted before, because somebody made a Lego version of the Skycar. Adrian (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Big things (was Re: For Those That Don't Get the 2nd Amendement (was Re: Those stupid liberal))
(...) I could argue that, but we're in the wrong place for it now. ;p (...) Don't forget the infamous Moller Air Car: (URL) the US Mil, in the incarnation of NARPA is funding exoskeleton research to the tune of mumble mumble million $$. In my fairly (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Big things (was Re: For Those That Don't Get the 2nd Amendement (was Re: Those stupid liberal))
(...) Interesting note in reference to the Aliens Power Loader - Caterpillar actually built it, and it actually works. Well, sort of. The footage of the loader lifting heavy things and walking around with them is live footage - what they don't show (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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