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Comments on DARPA Wants Exoskeletons
In a briefing today on GovExec.com, a variety of projects from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) demonstrate that some science fiction thinking is good. (Read
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| "And if these "Supersoldiers" rebel, and let their power go to their head, what do we do? Is it a special augmentation that can be controlled by both the Advanced human and some central control computer" ( 6/30/2004 11:50:02 PM) |
| "Of course the first known reference to military exoskeletons isnot in the 1959 novel "Starship Troopers" but in E E Doc Smith's Lensmen stories first published in 1948 (and written much earlier)." (Daedelus 7/16/2004 11:35:22 PM) |
| "one of the most well known exo-skeletons is of course the "loader" from the Film Aliens" (Delster 11/28/2005 1:03:53 AM) |
| "can someone say Iron man" ( 3/21/2006 8:41:35 AM) |
| "will this suit be available for the general public" (virgil 4/18/2006 4:03:56 PM) |
| "could this suit be taliored to a specific person or is it just a one size fits all." (V 5/24/2006 11:07:03 AM) |
| "Spartans..." ( 9/30/2010 12:54:38 PM) |
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