ShellHead

Story of my life, bro.Third-ed. Currently moving into junior year of pre-law/polisci. Not sure if im going to go to law school or attempt to get a job as a staffer. I know I don't want to be a court lawyer.

Could you elaborate on that statement? That seems awfully provocative and antagonistic without proper context.Its a reference to a very famous article written by Hunter S Thompson in the 1970s. Its what started Gonzo Journalism.http://en.wikipedia....nt_and_Depraved

From what I gather it was and still is decadent and depraved.

You do realize what you're saying right? The only issue is getting the absolutely massive amount of material into space and on the moon successfully. If we invented an easier way to get into space we could do it.

I seriously had buddy holly glasses in 2004. Only because they're cheep at the time

Scout armor goes against the idea of being a scout. You want to be light fast and quiet and throwing a machine into the mix makes you louder, clumsier, larger, and dependent on fuel. You may see LAR versions of the suit but scouting will always be preformed with the minimal amount of machinery.All armor will be assault armor and their will be different verities of it but this will not be a world changing invention because modern armies are already well suited to deal with armor.

You're going to have to have some form of opening in the armor in order the person inside to move. These openings will have to be fairly large if you want the person to be able to move flexibly. If you completely seal the suite in a fireproof yet flexible and safe substance you'd have to provide air to the person inside and somehow cool both the person and the electronics from their own heat and the potential fire. Modern tanks with five inch thick armor and reactive plating have been disabled by simple Molotov cocktails.With this kind of thing you can pick two of the following; Strength, flexibility, or simplicity. You can Strength and simplicity but then it'd be basically a motorized suit of armor. You can have flexibility and strength but then you'll have something too complex to be battle field worthy. You can have flexibility and simplicity but then you'd have an improved version of our current body armor.This level of protection is not an easily done task and may not be possible or even needed. A helmet doesn't protect you all the time from high powered rifles. It would be nice if it did but various factors prevent it from doing so but just because it isn't indestructible doesn't mean we don't use them.

Right but that just means you'll be able to use less troops to do more in some situations. This will be about as big a revolution as helicopters were, it will give you a highly mobile highly intelligent weapons platform but it won't suddenly become a trump card like tanks or the machine gun did when first invented. Another big issue no one talks about is fire, If I can catch someone in a suit like this on fire they're going to have a bad time. Theres no way to completely heat proof it or seal it and still have them remain mobile

It's gonna happen soon and its going to let soldiers carry bigger guns with more ammo and armor but overal it won't be a world changing event like the machine gun was. It will make you last longer and stronger with more fire power but I don't think anything they could put on a suit like that will protect you from a shaped charge. However its really going to revolutionize life for paraplegics and such.

While in theory a focused gamma ray would use a rod of a specific type of uranium detonated in a very specific way so that it shot out in a invisible beam of intense heat so strong it could be used as a propulsion system.

I believe Xray lasers have been built functionally and even weaponized, gamma ray lasers at this point are mostly math.

gamma ray lasers don't even really exist outside of theory.

It's a different frequency. Also X-rays must use an isotope where as a laser is focused light using mirrors.

Bfahome...do you go to hood college frederick md? I swear that looks exactly like one of the buildings. I tried to join up this semester but got too busy with other things

On x ray is a form of radiation an xaser would be a focused X-ray which would pretty much be a heat ray.

they're stale, rock hard, and taste awful.I wish I knew things slightly before anyone else, thus always appearing amazingly clever.

KING CRIMSON KING CRIMSON.I loooooove listening to their old stuff then listening to newer stuff and just hearing how their sound has changed over the decades.

I mean prove we can do it in a "hey this can be kept going in a little pressurized tube" and not just a "I am become shiva god of death" exsplosiony way.We pretty much want to put like a fraction of that exsplosiony version into a bottle and use it to boil water/heat gas.

I love the clash's more ska-y stuff but they were never too good as a punk band excluding a few catchy songs.

Yeah theyve been able to prove the concept is possible, which was a big thing. They've created fusion reactions but not a functional fusion reactor that just needs to be fed the proper elements.

Ohhhh I didn't think about that. Nukes are only devastating on earth due to pressure and the confide area where as in space it'd be like just a fizzle of radiation. Nuclear mines could work.

You could use a smart system to get a missile just close enough for the explosion to damage the ship. In space there no where to hide and unless you have a ship that's absolutely massive, like cosmically huge, something like an one atomic annie should knock it out. There's also the option of using nuclear bombs as a sort of "flack" weapon where the heat and radiation is the true weapon and not the actual explosion.Edit: to clear up any confusion I meant the same way we use conventional explosive shaped charges.

Ah very true, and if youre using that much power to create an ion trail you may as well just cut out the middle man and shot for a partial beam instead.A rail gun would be much easier . Space dust and various other environmental forms of damage make lasers expensive and hard to maintain.I feel nuclear shaped charges will be used heavily the same way traditional shaped charges are used by ships and tanks against other ships and tanks.

Electricity weapons while laughable in earths thick atmosphere are batflip terrifying in the vacuum of space. Literally all you need is an ultraviolet laser to create a nice little beam of ions and something like a tesla tower and you've got a plasma beam that not only travails just under the speed of light but is also so scaleable power-wise it could be used as a blow torch like cutter or even a form of communication.

Actually much more practical then we think soon. I was reading about this electromagnetic wave they can send out infront of a ship that would prevent radiation and small particles from harming the crew/ship. Pretty much all we need now is some form of artificial gravity which is also well on it's theoretical way. OH and for power there' helium nuclear reactors that cycles super heated gas but since helium is inert it never becomes radioactive unlike water and doesn't need to be pressurized with the added bonus of never being able to have a critical meltdown. The US military has a doctrine called "Space, the Ultimate High Ground."