From: avatar (avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 19:04:47 MST
The suit ideas sounds like fun, Starship Troopers with MEMS backpacks will be next doubtless. Toys for the boys.
Placed against a computer-controlled beam weapon with a nice heavy power source and...
such a mountain/tower based beam weapon will fry everything from a satellite (without space tower or moon-linear-accelerator support) to a robotic plane to a supertank to a suited soldier. Humans and planes move like flies in glue.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Artillo5@cs.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: Nanotech Super-soldier articles etc.
> I read this morning an article in our local paper (Delaware's News Journal
> www.delawareonline.com) about the Super-soldier stuff and did some more
> digging. I have heard bits and blurbs about the various components before,
> but this is the first time I have heard of this Institute. I suppose it is a
> good thing that the government is starting to see the light regarding the
> possibilities of nano, I just hope that it doesn't become an elitist or
> completely militarized thing!
>
> Here are some links on or about the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies:
>
> http://web.mit.edu/isn/
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15185-2003Jan19.html
>
> http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/focuson1002.asp
>
>
> A Nano info source I found (forgive me if some of you already have the link!):
> http://www.cmp-cientifica.com/cientifica/frameworks/generic/public_users/tnt_w
>
> eekly/archive_2002/week_38.htm
>
> This one is pretty interesting too (Plausible Futures Newsletter):
> http://plausible.custompublish.com/index.php?cat=7040
>
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