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Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 03:49
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Exoskeletons: The Soldiers of the Future
Robo-Soldiers. Pentagon to Develop Super-Suits Spiegel Online January 12, 2007 A nanotechnologist in Texas has come up with a way of producing a super-fabric with 100 times the strength of human muscle. The Pentagon now wants him to develop a super-suit for its soldiers. The Pentagon is hoping that a new type of suit will give its soldiers super-human powers. It would be made from a newly developed super-strong but super-lightweight fabric that could stop bullets and increase the soldiers muscle power up to a hundredfold. The US military has long been searching for an "Exoskeleton" that would amplify the muscle strength of combat soldiers. However, up until now each attempt had been too inefficient, cumbersome or mechanical to be used. Now the superpower's military is hoping to profit from the findings of nanotechnologist Ray Baughman from the University of Texas. He has managed to develop chemically grown nanotubes, which are like tiny muscles. The microscopically tiny particles contract when an electrical voltage is applied and get their energy from a mini fuel cell, that runs on hydrogen and oxygen. The mini muscles are a hundred times stronger than human muscle tissue -- and can be woven into a fabric that would contract when heated and go back to its original shape when cooled. Newsweek reports that Baughman now has a grant from the Pentagon to develop an exoskeleton for the US army. It is hoped that a suit made out of this type of material could allow GIs to jump over high barriers and transport heavy objects quickly and over long distances. The soldiers would be protected by another nano product -- a bullet-proof carbon fabric that would be a lot lighter and much stronger than the current bullet-proof vests. [source]
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 03:56
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Re: Exoskeletons: The Soldiers of the Future
Other related news and info:
How Exoskeletons Will Work Military Robots: The March of the Steel Soldiers (Spiegel Online - May 16, 2006) Giving soldiers a high-tech leg up (Machine Design - December 8, 2005) Future Warfare: Tomorrow's Combat Soldier (Military.com - 2005)
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"…never before has a lack of truthfulness played such a large and important role in philosophy." "They did whatever they felt like doing with concepts. As if by magic they changed anything into any other thing." –Ortega y Gasset on German Idealism "In consequence of Kant's criticism of all speculative theology, almost all the philosophizers in Germany cast themselves back on to Spinoza, so that the whole series of unsuccessful attempts known by the name of post-Kantian philosophy is simply Spinozism tastelessly got up, veiled in all kinds of unintelligible language, and otherwise twisted and distorted ..." –Schopenhauer on German Idealism [...] Que a nosotros, que nacimos de celtas y de iberos, no nos cause vergüenza, sino satisfacción agradecida, hacer sonar en nuestros versos los broncos nombres de la tierra nuestra [...] –Marco Valerio Marcial– |
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 03:56
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Re: Exoskeletons: The Soldiers of the Future
[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=h2jlIRKswnQ[/MEDIA]
[MEDIA]http://youtube.com/watch?v=P9b_iTPg1So[/MEDIA]
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"…never before has a lack of truthfulness played such a large and important role in philosophy." "They did whatever they felt like doing with concepts. As if by magic they changed anything into any other thing." –Ortega y Gasset on German Idealism "In consequence of Kant's criticism of all speculative theology, almost all the philosophizers in Germany cast themselves back on to Spinoza, so that the whole series of unsuccessful attempts known by the name of post-Kantian philosophy is simply Spinozism tastelessly got up, veiled in all kinds of unintelligible language, and otherwise twisted and distorted ..." –Schopenhauer on German Idealism [...] Que a nosotros, que nacimos de celtas y de iberos, no nos cause vergüenza, sino satisfacción agradecida, hacer sonar en nuestros versos los broncos nombres de la tierra nuestra [...] –Marco Valerio Marcial– |
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 04:08
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Re: Exoskeletons: The Soldiers of the Future
Umh.. what about batteries? The big problem for alternative energies today is not as much how to produce them, but how to accumulate energy to last enough to be effective.
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"…never before has a lack of truthfulness played such a large and important role in philosophy." "They did whatever they felt like doing with concepts. As if by magic they changed anything into any other thing." –Ortega y Gasset on German Idealism "In consequence of Kant's criticism of all speculative theology, almost all the philosophizers in Germany cast themselves back on to Spinoza, so that the whole series of unsuccessful attempts known by the name of post-Kantian philosophy is simply Spinozism tastelessly got up, veiled in all kinds of unintelligible language, and otherwise twisted and distorted ..." –Schopenhauer on German Idealism [...] Que a nosotros, que nacimos de celtas y de iberos, no nos cause vergüenza, sino satisfacción agradecida, hacer sonar en nuestros versos los broncos nombres de la tierra nuestra [...] –Marco Valerio Marcial– |
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007, 05:11
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Re: Exoskeletons: The Soldiers of the Future
Very good read. Kind of scary I think.
I recommend anyone who finds this interesting to read certain Tom Clancy novels. he has written a lot of what he believes the future of warfare to be like. Some people believe he is pretty accurate with all his experience.
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