Re: Infantry Walkers

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Jonathan White wrote:

> Not necessarily. The human body is a very vertatile mechanical system
- it
> can crawl, run etc.. If you build a machine to a specific mode of
travel it
> doesn't need to be as complex. It's entirely possible, I would
suggest, to
> build something like what Ripley piloted in Aliens if not now, then
very
> soon. Admittedly it won't be any use for Ballet, but you could stick a
big
> frackin' gun on it and it'd do as a miltary vehicle. Of course, wjat
the
> distinction between one of these and power armour is I'm not sure..
> 

I certainly hope that's not what power armor is like!  The walker from
Aliens would be almost useless as a military vehicle... except in
hand-to-hand combat against alien mothers of course :)

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