Re: Walkers

On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 00:14:37 -0000 "Robin Paul" <Robin.Paul@tesco.net>
writes:
>From: Charles Taylor <charles.taylor@cableol.co.uk>
>To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
>Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:25 PM
>Subject: Re: Walkers
>
>
>> In message <004f01c1751d$d50599e0$b16e60cb@your1ji53vwc26>
>>	     "Andrew Martin" <Al.Bri@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> > Iain wrote:
>SNIP
>> > Several years ago, I remember seeing on a TV Documentary a 
>tethered
>> > Pogo-stick-like hopping robot that could move around
>> >
>> > Andrew Martin
>SNIP
>> I'm not sure about the feasability of a giant battlemech 
>pogo-hopping
>> accross the battlefield though (and I really wouldn't wan't to crew
>> one) :-)
>>
>> OTOH, when first use, it could immobalise an entire enemy army, as 
>they
>> stand there, paralysed in disbelief! ;-)
>>
>> At smaller sizes, it could prove quite practical.
>> Charles
>
>To an alien species of hopping monopedes, it might seem to be the 
>"natural"
>way to build a mech.
>
>Aargh! Invasion of the Mecha-Dufflepuds!
>
>(Sorry, I'm under the influence of small Narnia-fan nephews)
>
>Rob Paul
>
>
Or manned by Kangaroos (Two manufactureres make such things in 25/28mm
scale, IIRC.)

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