{"id":1237,"date":"2004-03-11T09:36:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T22:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2010-03-13T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T11:10:06","slug":"the-real-starship-troopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"The Real Starship Troopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were many, many disappointments in Paul Verhoeven&#8217;s 1997 movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120201\/\">Starship Troopers<\/a>. Those of us who love Robert A Heinlein&#8217;s novel object to the political re-orientation in the movie, the idiotic &#8216;science&#8217; and the unbelievable contrivances used to have the characters stumble across each other at various points. One less objectionable, but still disappointing, omission from the movie was Heinlein&#8217;s &#8216;Powered Armour&#8217;. He clearly had a love affair with the concept. It was the device that made his Mobile Infantry mobile.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years the US Defence Department&#8217;s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has been funding development of something very similar. Now, it seems, a working prototype of the leg enhancement and load-carrying part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.me.berkeley.edu\/hel\/bleex.htm\">has been developed by the Berkeley Robotics Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the always-exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurepundit.com\/archives\/001975.html#001975\">FuturePundit article on the subject<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the UC Berkeley experiments, the human pilot moved about a room wearing the 100-pound exoskeleton and a 70-pound backpack while feeling as if he were lugging a mere 5 pounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is only the first version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were many, many disappointments in Paul Verhoeven&#8217;s 1997 movie Starship Troopers. Those of us who love Robert A Heinlein&#8217;s novel object to the political re-orientation in the movie, the idiotic &#8216;science&#8217; and the unbelievable contrivances used to have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1237\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}