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nimysa
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States383 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-04 22:41:43
May 04 2009 22:41 GMT
#1
I was kinda bored the other day and I thought about the futuristic suit used by Tony Stark. The idea came from a book called Starship troopers where people no longer used vehicles or tanks (the creators of Iron man even mentioned this). What really is bugging me is, is it actually possible with present technology to develop this kind of suit? Is it possible we might actually develop suits like this in the future?

Could someone actually develop some kind of suit like this by themselves? Anyone knowledgeable about this kind of stuff fill me in on this?

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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
May 04 2009 22:44 GMT
#2
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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
May 04 2009 22:44 GMT
#3
I am Batman btw
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Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-04 22:45:29
May 04 2009 22:45 GMT
#4
I don't think this is possible any time too soon. Japan has developed suits with some functions such as basic movement, lifting capabilities, or some jumping.

but we are a long ways away from developing something that could fly / be armored. I would imagine it would get too hot to survive in.

When watching Iron Man I kept saying to myself "shouldn't these bullets and shit be knocking him over"?
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Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
May 04 2009 22:46 GMT
#5
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iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
May 04 2009 22:54 GMT
#6
Yes.

I design robotic suits in my spare time. You'd be interested to know I am an English student. So my spare time is immense. Hence the robotic suits.

The first consideration to be made is what nemesis will you do battle with? Robotic suits are good and fine but if you have no awesome intent for it the idea is a wash. Peacekeeping? That is stupid. Nah we need something hot and sexy.. something that will eventually be turned into a movie and made famous. How about a robotic suit that does combat with space/mutant/magical villains? Great.

After I have picked a purpose for the robotic suit I then need to find the inevitable resources for the suit:

1. old wizened former military scientist who happened to specialize in robotic suit making or some metal or weapon.

2. special metals that came from an asteroid or were exclusively designed by your company/your father's company.

3. Semi-comical excuse to decorate/color the suit a certain way.

4. A series of convenient circumstances that make the suit both semi-feasible (you are rich, you know someone rich, they are military/you are military, someone died etc) and believable in a science fiction kind of way.

Once I have secured these elements I build it in my garage.

Those were just examples though.

My situation is a little less dramatic. My father owns a black ops military organization called "The Steel Fist of God." He was designing an experimental suit that would allow 1 soldier to become the perfect warrior, capable of defeating an entire nation with his own cold, steel hands of destruction. Well his right hand man named Alexander Chase Maximus got jealous and murdered my father while he was up late at night during a rainstorm designing the suit. I was away at college (Harvard) pursuing a degree in astro physics and nuclear engineering. When I returned and found my murdered father and the suit missing I knew there really was only one thing I could do.

Build my own suit.

So I tracked down my father's leading scientist, an old man with balding white hair named Walter Klopenheimer. Together we were able to build the suit in my dad's old (secret) laboratory through the use of montage and vague suggestions of time passage we did this in what seemed like a relatively quick period of time. After melding the experimental asteroid metal with the doctor's zany theory of lazer theory we made a robotic suit capable of cutting through the strongest of metals. We called it "The Red Death." For dramatic purposes I married the doctor's beautiful german model daughter and made love to her shortly before my final showdown with the "Steel Fist of God" suit. Needless to say LA was destroyed but the girl was saved (oh she was captured btw) and I was able to stop the suit from doing ambiguous misdeeds of villainy related (plausibly) to middle eastern conflicts and money.

Anyways, I hope I answered your question.
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
May 04 2009 22:57 GMT
#7
It's true.

He makes me fight him and he's pretty good with his suit
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littlechava
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States7221 Posts
May 04 2009 23:01 GMT
#8
On May 05 2009 07:54 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
You'd be interested to know I am an English student. So my spare time is immense.

i loled
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renchak
Profile Joined April 2009
209 Posts
May 04 2009 23:01 GMT
#9
Incontrol also known as Cub man?
REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1904 Posts
May 04 2009 23:06 GMT
#10
I saw two different suits on tv.
The first one was heavily armored to resist bear punches to get close to bears. it worked, only downside was that the wearer was as fast as a sloth. The second suit was a exoskeleton which basically made you stronger and faster but one hit would probably destroy all the circuits in it -.-
Jetpacks also already exist but they are hard to control and can only be used for a very short time.
Now combine those 3 things and you got your ironman suit
I'm sure it's gonna happen some day but probably only prototypes.
Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
May 04 2009 23:09 GMT
#11
incontrol for #1 poster
UNFUCK YOURSELF
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43433 Posts
May 04 2009 23:11 GMT
#12
These already exist, although they're not full suits but rather exoskeletons. Still, the more advanced ones respond to minute changes in the muscles to mimic the intent of the body but with far more strength than the body is normally capable of. So far they've only given them basic abilities like heavy lifting because stuff like balance is seriously hard to give to a robot.
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deathgod6
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States5064 Posts
May 04 2009 23:12 GMT
#13
Well duh. If Tony Stark, a fictional character based on a comic book, can create a suit out of scrap metal in a cave while under surveillance and later perfecting his suit with his billion dollar fortune, we'll all be flying around in our Iron Man suits by the year 2010. After all, Barack Obama did promise change and a better future, one in which we can all blow shit up with highly advanced technology.
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GunsofthePatriots
Profile Joined August 2007
South Africa991 Posts
May 04 2009 23:12 GMT
#14
On May 05 2009 07:45 travis wrote:
I don't think this is possible any time too soon. Japan has developed suits with some functions such as basic movement, lifting capabilities, or some jumping.

but we are a long ways away from developing something that could fly / be armored. I would imagine it would get too hot to survive in.

When watching Iron Man I kept saying to myself "shouldn't these bullets and shit be knocking him over"?


The United States has as well...
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
May 04 2009 23:15 GMT
#15
wow....Incontrols post was actually really good.



Have you considered Lego Mindstorms, that's a pretty good place to start. Start small and work your way up
PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
May 05 2009 00:10 GMT
#16
The US military has a strength augmentation suit thing...it's more of an exoskeleton than a "suit" as you would imagine it. It's like a frame that has the same joints as you do and will reinforce your own strength as you operate it.

However...this has zero combat implications. It's used for logistical purposes...loading/unloading cargo, transporting supplies, etc.
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Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
May 05 2009 00:13 GMT
#17
On May 05 2009 09:10 PH wrote:
The US military has a strength augmentation suit thing...it's more of an exoskeleton than a "suit" as you would imagine it. It's like a frame that has the same joints as you do and will reinforce your own strength as you operate it.

However...this has zero combat implications. It's used for logistical purposes...loading/unloading cargo, transporting supplies, etc.


yeah so basically we already have the SCV, the next step is making the Goliath
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Slithe
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States985 Posts
May 05 2009 00:29 GMT
#18
Here's a video of a suit made by the bear suit guy.

GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-05 00:35:28
May 05 2009 00:34 GMT
#19
On May 05 2009 09:13 H wrote:
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On May 05 2009 09:10 PH wrote:
The US military has a strength augmentation suit thing...it's more of an exoskeleton than a "suit" as you would imagine it. It's like a frame that has the same joints as you do and will reinforce your own strength as you operate it.

However...this has zero combat implications. It's used for logistical purposes...loading/unloading cargo, transporting supplies, etc.


yeah so basically we already have the SCV, the next step is making the Goliath

We have siege tanks too. And something like marines (if you assume that we arn't giving our soldiers stim packs, or we're talking about marines w/out stim).

edit: and inc in a mechanical suit vs batman? sick.
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stroggos
Profile Joined February 2009
New Zealand1543 Posts
May 05 2009 02:13 GMT
#20
On May 05 2009 09:29 Slithe wrote:
Here's a video of a suit made by the bear suit guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPS2l5fQ55A


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