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Myke Dronez
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2 psi sounds like very little pressure considering the pressures even red river choss can withstand. Thanks for proving my comment valid. I'm really not interested in defending or criticizing a project that I know nothing about. I just thought it was interesting to see the kinds of research that the defense department funds.
If you look through their website, they have tons of other fascinating and sometimes terrifying things going on. Everything from an aircraft that can stay in place over an intelligence target continuously for five years, to a system that recognizes photo-analyst visual responses before their own brain has time to react, to a frag bomb that's designed to improve on current kill ratios.
If you look through their website, they have tons of other fascinating and sometimes terrifying things going on. Everything from an aircraft that can stay in place over an intelligence target continuously for five years, to a system that recognizes photo-analyst visual responses before their own brain has time to react, to a frag bomb that's designed to improve on current kill ratios.
The article said 10lbs per square centimeter (who mixes systems?) so that's only 20 square centimeters to hold up a 200lb person or roughly 3 square inches per pad for quadruple redundancy. Even with 100 pounds of gear, that is only 4.6 square inches. That's a square 2 1/4 inches on a side.
The theory of evolution is just as stupid as the theories of gravity and electromagnetism.
10 lbs per sq. cm is 65 psi - now we're talking about a lot more types of building materials (new, properly installed) failing.
I have to guess that this research is (I hope) a good idea using a military spin to develop the underlying synthetic gecko material. And that everyone involved is doing a "wink and nudge" knowing that there will never be "Spiderman soldiers" climbing buildings in the midst of urban combat.
I have to guess that this research is (I hope) a good idea using a military spin to develop the underlying synthetic gecko material. And that everyone involved is doing a "wink and nudge" knowing that there will never be "Spiderman soldiers" climbing buildings in the midst of urban combat.
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Check it:
http://www.4ionx.com/page/view/7
http://www.4ionx.com/page/view/7
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It looks like those guys are right there near lexington. Maybe you could get a free demo - add a few letter grades just by wearing the right shirt.SCIN wrote:Check it:
http://www.4ionx.com/page/view/7