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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Good morning crew,
You troopers were on the bounce in answering yesterday's
quote. The line came from, of course, Robert Heinlein's
1959 sci-fi classic "Starship Troopers".
Most everybody is familiar with the 1997 movie remake by
the same name, and while the movie had roughly the same
plot as the book there was a significant omission in the
form of the powered armor.
In the book, all of the Mobile Infantry were equipped with
powered armor. It is supposed to work something like this:
"An armored suit magnifies the power of the
soldier's muscles, along with other weapons.
Our suits give us better eyes, better ears,
stronger backs (to carry heavier weapons and
more ammo), better legs, more intelligence
(in the military meaning...), more firepower,
greater endurance, less vulnerability.
"The real genius in the design is that you
don't have to control the suit; you just wear
it, like your clothes, like skin. The secret
lies in negative feedback and amplification.
"Here's how it works, minus the diagrams.
The inside of the suit is a mass of pressure
receptors, hundreds of them. You push with
the heel of your hand; the suit feels it,
amplifies it, pushes with you to take the
pressure off the receptors that gave the
order to push".
Most fans will tell you that the powered armor is the
coolest thing about the book. Unfortunately, they didn't
have the budget to pull it off in the movie (so it was
sort of a trick question for those of you who saw the
movie but didn't read the book). If you have the time
try looking up some artists' renditions on the Internet.
Laugh it up,
Joe
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