2008-02-26, 05:31 | Link #1 |
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Mecha in Real Life
Well, oneday when i'm wandering around in the internet i found this :
http://www.mechaps.com/ http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/products/other/LW.htm What do you think? Will they succeed in bringin anime-style mecha into real life? Or even for military purpose? Well, looks like it's not impossible to do so. Say, long ago people think it's impossible to fly and now... airplanes everywhere. So, maybe we'll see those mechas in real life quite soon too. I wonder how it will affect the world, moreover from the military view...
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2008-02-26, 06:24 | Link #5 |
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they have a vid of a test of it somewhere on youtube i seen it awhile back.So people are making more weapons to kill each other with how sad. i want the blueprints so i can burn them and blow the mecha up
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2008-02-26, 06:35 | Link #6 |
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Checked the video of the walking mecha in the second link and i loled at the second link.
The speed of it moving... I'm sure a senior would even out walk it. Also the way it moves.. It's not lifting it's foot up, it's just sliding/pushing it forward... Might as well put wheels under it. It might go faster that way to... And it's wobbling a lot when moving... I wonder how it's gone get up when it tumbles over I don't think the military would have much use for mecha's. The humanoid form isn't the most efficient for combat. Gundam looks neat and all. But in a combat something this large and sticking out like a tower probably won't last to long.. Nor will the aerodynamics's help it with speed
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2008-02-26, 06:50 | Link #7 | |
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Nevertheless, i know that john deere did build a prototype forestry machine few years back, with six legs. But never hear of iot since. Giant humanoid machines for combat? Nah, even for construction work you probably want machines with more than two legs. |
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2008-02-26, 06:57 | Link #9 |
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I've always find the whole concept of mechs utterly ridiculous. We have tanks in real life for a good reason. The main idea of modern ground warfare is to remain unnoticed for as long as possible, using the ground as a cover as best as you can. With a mech, you would be pretty much shouting to your enemy "hello, I'm here, please shoot me!"
Add the facts that a mech could probably never reach the kind of movement speeds that tanks do. A mech would be also very unstable and the feet would be fragile with lots of moving joints. Such a target would be quite easy to immobilize and destroy. And flying mechs? Well... I think it should be pretty obvious that you can't make a human shaped robot fly as well as a plane does. In space you wouldn't have to care about the atmospheric drag but I still can't think of any reason to use mechs in space either. So why would anyone want to use mechs on a battlefield in the first place? |
2008-02-26, 07:10 | Link #11 | |
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Of course, war mecha remains very much a geek's pipe dream. But I wouldn't mind developing mecha for heavy industrial operations, like mining or deep-sea exploration. Also, if you're going to design a truly stable, multi-leg platform, you need at least six legs, not two. |
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2008-02-26, 07:42 | Link #12 | |
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But we'll have to do cyberbrains first, otherwise where will the fun be in it? :/
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2008-02-26, 09:06 | Link #16 |
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I really don't think Mecha's would be a very good asset for war, first of all, its slow, second of all, it can lose balance and not take as much of a beating as a tank (for example), third of all, its huge as heck.
If i were to make a blind guess, i would say they'd do best in hazardous and heavy work, like handling radioactive material, or mining in hazardous environments |
2008-02-26, 10:59 | Link #18 |
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If someone is interested to see the john deere machine in action, go to youtube and look for "john deere walking tractor"
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1h3vcLybfA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwR3O7JSfWA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gk-yQ1H3M8 |
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