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Kaos
03-Aug-2006, 02:18 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVwbUljGs3g

Watching the video kind of shows how even if this tech were less clunky that conventional weapons and personnel could probably dispatch such a beast with relative ease.

Tricky
03-Aug-2006, 04:38 PM
I saw that a while ago,cool stuff!look how quickly mobile phone technology has moved on in the last 5 years,if the right amount of money is pumped into it the army will be strutting about in fast/smooth moving mechs within 15 years i would have thought,even if its just ones like the power loaders from aliens!:cool:
http://www.teamdelta.com/i2000/pwl.jpg

p2501
03-Aug-2006, 06:07 PM
Interesting, but impractical. i guy with an RPG 6 would be the end of that thing. while a TOW would flat out gut it.


Neat idea though.

now this on the otherhand, while fictional. is both far more probably given the army's MOBILE SWORD project. the growing wnat for autonomous weaponry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXliwfnxwWE

bassman
03-Aug-2006, 06:14 PM
I saw that a while ago,cool stuff!look how quickly mobile phone technology has moved on in the last 5 years,if the right amount of money is pumped into it the army will be strutting about in fast/smooth moving mechs within 15 years i would have thought,even if its just ones like the power loaders from aliens!:cool:
http://www.teamdelta.com/i2000/pwl.jpg


It will be dark soon. And they mostly come out at night.....mostly.

radiokill
03-Aug-2006, 08:26 PM
anyone see the first chapter of the "nonfiction" book accounting one man's quest to find out everything he could about a fully AI robot made of mini cooper parts that ran around the highways mysteriously preventing motorists from crashing their vehicles? (appeared in rolling stone)

who in the hell was the target market for those ads?:confused:

p2501
04-Aug-2006, 02:52 PM
anyone see the first chapter of the "nonfiction" book accounting one man's quest to find out everything he could about a fully AI robot made of mini cooper parts that ran around the highways mysteriously preventing motorists from crashing their vehicles? (appeared in rolling stone)

who in the hell was the target market for those ads?:confused:


In a word, Otaku.

radiokill
04-Aug-2006, 03:40 PM
In a word, Otaku.
seriously, why target such a small group? like those geeks are all going to cash in their anime collections and go buy a mini? see like a waste of ad money.

p2501
04-Aug-2006, 04:59 PM
true but there is a disturbing attraction between Otaku and smaller but fast cars.

it's kept Volkswagen in business for years.

radiokill
04-Aug-2006, 05:06 PM
it's kept Volkswagen in business for years.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
ohhhhh....that's why they're still around

p2501
04-Aug-2006, 05:46 PM
yep, otakus, wiggers, and fat white chicks. that's the VW market.