Human bipedal locomotion device

[xoo1246]

I found this, I have never seen anything like it.
<a href="http://www.springwalker.com/" target="_blank">http://www.springwalker.com/</a>
And/or patent Nr: 5,016,869
Fairly interesting, not related to explosives or weapons, or new, patented in 1991.
Hopefully someone might find it interesting.

Edit: Please move!, wrong section, when I posted this, only 4 sections were availible(don't ask me why, you are the administration :) ).

<small>[ August 29, 2002, 03:47 PM: Message edited by: xoo1246 ]</small>

[Eliteforum]

Anthony and NBK went over this in a topic a long time ago IIRC, the thread should still be kicking around somewhere.

[Anthony]

The electric servo assistance is certainly. Won't be long before we have 8-10ft tall soldiers running round our cities at 30mph and leaping 8ft fences in single step!

[Ctrl_C]

Exoskeltons scare me. They remind me of mechwarriors. War is becoming ludicrously unfair. We can basically wage an entire war without the opposition even seeing a soldier. Now, if a future in which mechwarriors exists comes about, you can basically have 1 guy controlling all the components of a fighter plane, ground army, navy even with one joystick. It would take thousands of people to beat one of these things.

[Eliteforum]

Anyone else here that "Terminator" theme tune..?

[A-BOMB]

I tell ya thats why we should nuke the middle east to get rid of that evil oil so we can get working on cold fusion so we can get on to making them mechwarrior kinda super mega killing machines.

[AmonDin]

Feh, the only 80 foot walking death machines will be in MY armada driven by MY liegons of terror. Feel free to sign up with henchmen services.

War isn't meant to be fair, you take any advantage you can get. Don't worry about your revolution being spoiled or anything, a good guerilla resistance can still cause plenty o trouble.

[NoltaiR]

And soon enough they might just start selling this superbots in little kits found at your neighborhood walmart :D 'great for your son's fifth birthday'!

[frostfire]

"cold fusion so we can get on to making them mechwarrior kinda super mega killing machines."

I assume you haven't got to/forgot college physics, the concept is a mistake made by some foolish person who among other things, violate 2nd law of thermodynamics that entropy can never be less than positive figure (or hardly even zero)

don't get me wrong, I would love to see all the gundams become reality and fly all over the place

[Eliteforum]

I read in a extract from New Scientest, that the first blob of anti matter has been created!

"Mr Worf.. Engage!"

We could well be on our way with some warp power supplys soon!

[nbk2000]

This is news? They've made anti-matter years ago. But it's strictly a lab curiousity for the foreseeable future because it takes astronomical amounts of power to make a few atoms worth of anti-matter.

My army of Mecha-Chickens will be powered by methane, conveniently fueled by my legions of chickens. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[A-BOMB]

Actual NBK I just read in a old Scientific American that if all the particule excelerators in the world were smashing atoms constanly for a year they would produce about a weight of anti-matter one quarter of the of the weight of the atoms/particules that were smashed. It was in the one about what types of engines and rockets would be needed to travel in space.

And frost I know that it was just a joke, I better get back to my laser driven helium fusion experiment. Oh crap a Ressoniance Cascade has happened, now we have to deal with more of those damn Zen aliens again, wheres gordon freeman when you need him.

<small>[ September 20, 2002, 09:39 AM: Message edited by: A-BOMB ]</small>