From news.com today:
Researchers also hope to develop a kind of molecular chain mail that can deflect bullets.I think someone at MIT has been reading too many X-Men comics."Imagine the psychological impact upon a foe when encountering squads of seemingly invincible warriors protected by armor and endowed with superhuman capabilities, such as the ability to leap over 20-foot walls," ISN director Ned Thomas said in a release.
Alternatively if they start to call these things «scramble suits», add in an active camoflage capability, and deploy them among DEA agents, then the universe has officially gone weird.
Update: slashdot is running this story, calling these "anime uniforms". If the nano-engineers were really on their toes, they'd make nano-engineered symbiotic uniforms.
Imagine the psychological impact on the bystanders of having two such superhumanly endowed armies duke it out all across their homeland.
Is it my imagination, or is that "imagine" paragraph written with an underlying assumption that only one side will develop these things?
Re:Imagine
ziggy on 2002-03-14T22:00:33
Yep. We have MIT so we get the nano-armor. The Japanese have Keio University, so they get the 14-foot hydraulically powered armored exo-skeletons with rocket boots and retractable wings. (The Romanians already have an army of vampires waiting, but that's a secret. And why Romania isn't part of the Axis of Darkness.)Is it my imagination, or is that "imagine" paragraph written with an underlying assumption that only one side will develop these things?Re:Imagine
mirod on 2002-03-15T14:41:16
You're all doomed! Your nano-armors won't protect you, and the Japanese will thank their exo-skeletons for allowing them to flee faster...
No one can beat the super-stench of the French Non Pasteurized Death-Cheese!
Muahahahahahahah!
Re:Imagine
djberg96 on 2002-03-16T02:52:11
All your nano-armor are belong to us!
