Murk
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super soldier era
Aliens meets Iron Man
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90M7EDO7&show_artic...
| Quote: | Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he
presses 200 pounds—that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20
times.
With the outfit's claw-like metal hand extensions, he gripped a weight set's bar at a recent demonstration and knocked off hundreds of repetitions.
Once, he did 500.
"Everyone gets bored much more quickly than I get tired," Jameson said.
Jameson—who works for robotics firm Sarcos Inc. in Salt Lake City, which is under contract with the U.S. Army—is helping assess the 150-pound suit's
viability for the soldiers of tomorrow. The suit works by sensing every movement the wearer makes and almost instantly amplifying it.
The Army believes soldiers may someday wear the suits in combat, but it's focusing for now on applications such as loading cargo or repairing heavy
equipment. Sarcos is developing the technology under a two-year contract worth up to $10 million, and the Army plans initial field tests next year...
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DAK
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I seen this shit before. Wish I had that at work, it sure would save my sore back.
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upyerbum
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If you seriously wandered onto a battlefield in that getup, you'd be dead in 10 seconds, faster if I was across from ya' 
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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DaveMoral
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I saw something about some full body armor that seriously looked like a stormtrooper get up from Star Wars.
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