Fake muscles. Look at the bulging servos on this guy.
http://iseerobots.com/2007/05/11/tokyo-institute-of-science-muscle-suit.aspx
I don’t get it.
-dizzle
Mmmmmmm next gen bench shirts.
[quote]Ghost22 wrote:
Mmmmmmm next gen bench shirts.[/quote]
LOL.
Pretty pointless. It looks clumsy,hard to use,and impractical. I read an article in a Issue of either Stuff Magazine or FHM that there was a University in the West coast working on Endoskeleton muscles.
There was a picture of a man have his muscles replaced with shocks absorbers and hyrdrualics on the joint and titanium sheeting and covering. basically,your the Terminator.
Further proof that the “aliens” we’ve seen are just visits from our future selves.
Stuff like these things get invented, and only our minds develop more and more while our bodies become the tiny, skinny, brittle things you’ve seen with Alien sightings.
I can’t wait until we figure out how to time travel!
I’m thinking we just attach our heads onto robot bodies. Yes… I’m talking both heads.
[quote]SWR wrote:
Further proof that the “aliens” we’ve seen are just visits from our future selves.
Stuff like these things get invented, and only our minds develop more and more while our bodies become the tiny, skinny, brittle things you’ve seen with Alien sightings.
I can’t wait until we figure out how to time travel![/quote]
Cant agree more. That evolution for you. Look at Neanderthals and Cavemen. They killed Sabertooth tigers and Mammoths with their bare,fucking hands. Fast forward a little bit,Gladiators fought againts each others to the death and even killed tigers and bears as well. Look how tough and brutal they were. When technology got better,we became weaker and softer. If you think were in a sad state now,think about how pussified our grandchildren will be.
[quote]mr_slick wrote:
SWR wrote:
Further proof that the “aliens” we’ve seen are just visits from our future selves.
Stuff like these things get invented, and only our minds develop more and more while our bodies become the tiny, skinny, brittle things you’ve seen with Alien sightings.
I can’t wait until we figure out how to time travel!
Cant agree more. That evolution for you. Look at Neanderthals and Cavemen. They killed Sabertooth tigers and Mammoths with their bare,fucking hands. Fast forward a little bit,Gladiators fought againts each others to the death and even killed tigers and bears as well. Look how tough and brutal they were. When technology got better,we became weaker and softer. If you think were in a sad state now,think about how pussified our grandchildren will be.
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I disagree, somewhat. Look at professional athletes, especially pro football players. They get bigger, faster, and stronger every year. I’ld like to see one of your gladiators compete in UFC, or take a pass over the middle with Brian Urlacher coming the other way.
True. Maybe the difference is in the brutality of past man and modern man.
[quote]BSchroeder wrote:
mr_slick wrote:
SWR wrote:
Further proof that the “aliens” we’ve seen are just visits from our future selves.
Stuff like these things get invented, and only our minds develop more and more while our bodies become the tiny, skinny, brittle things you’ve seen with Alien sightings.
I can’t wait until we figure out how to time travel!
Cant agree more. That evolution for you. Look at Neanderthals and Cavemen. They killed Sabertooth tigers and Mammoths with their bare,fucking hands. Fast forward a little bit,Gladiators fought againts each others to the death and even killed tigers and bears as well. Look how tough and brutal they were. When technology got better,we became weaker and softer. If you think were in a sad state now,think about how pussified our grandchildren will be.
I disagree, somewhat. Look at professional athletes, especially pro football players. They get bigger, faster, and stronger every year. I’ld like to see one of your gladiators compete in UFC, or take a pass over the middle with Brian Urlacher coming the other way.[/quote]
[quote]BSchroeder wrote:
mr_slick wrote:
SWR wrote:
Further proof that the “aliens” we’ve seen are just visits from our future selves.
Stuff like these things get invented, and only our minds develop more and more while our bodies become the tiny, skinny, brittle things you’ve seen with Alien sightings.
I can’t wait until we figure out how to time travel!
Cant agree more. That evolution for you. Look at Neanderthals and Cavemen. They killed Sabertooth tigers and Mammoths with their bare,fucking hands. Fast forward a little bit,Gladiators fought againts each others to the death and even killed tigers and bears as well. Look how tough and brutal they were. When technology got better,we became weaker and softer. If you think were in a sad state now,think about how pussified our grandchildren will be.
I disagree, somewhat. Look at professional athletes, especially pro football players. They get bigger, faster, and stronger every year. I’ld like to see one of your gladiators compete in UFC, or take a pass over the middle with Brian Urlacher coming the other way.[/quote]
I agree, but the split down the middle between those who are exceptionally developed and those who aren’t is growing. “Average” now means “no muscle mass at all with a large amount of body fat”. That wasn’t even the case just 10-20 years ago.
I don’t know what it is like in most cities, but I know that growing up in Texas meant there were several large guys in your class with some looking they should be future NFL players. Today, most kids look like pasty flabby shadows in comparison. The normal is now what used to be last to be picked for kickball.
Athletes will continue to get better as science and nutrition get a better handle on the situation…along with years of trial and error for trainers to learn from. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is pathetic.
I doubt you could easily find even 5 guys on any random street corner who could push a car by themselves without nearly having a stroke…if they could do it at all.
[quote]mr_slick wrote:
Cant agree more. That evolution for you. Look at Neanderthals and Cavemen. They killed Sabertooth tigers and Mammoths with their bare,fucking hands. Fast forward a little bit,Gladiators fought againts each others to the death and even killed tigers and bears as well. Look how tough and brutal they were. When technology got better,we became weaker and softer. If you think were in a sad state now,think about how pussified our grandchildren will be.
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Oh Yeah? Well I’d like to see some gladiator or neanderthal try to spear me in my mega-bot suit.
I’d blast him to peices with a laser guided rocket from half a mile away.
Then I’d feed whats left to my robo-rottweiler.(with titanium jaws and L.E.D. eyeballs!)
[quote]mr_slick wrote:
Cant agree more. That evolution for you. Look at Neanderthals and Cavemen. They killed Sabertooth tigers and Mammoths with their bare,fucking hands. Fast forward a little bit,Gladiators fought againts each others to the death and even killed tigers and bears as well. Look how tough and brutal they were. When technology got better,we became weaker and softer. If you think were in a sad state now,think about how pussified our grandchildren will be.
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While I agree that our ancestors were badass, I still think that they were not too keen on doing that and did that only to survive (it’s not like that fighting tigers was their hobby).
I think that it’s only right that with time we started to use our brains more and more and not only our physical power…imo that’s evolution, making things easier, becoming smarter, learning how the nature functions, how to make more while doing less…
But logical consequence is that we became softer and ˝pussified˝ as there are really not much things in which we can physically excel (except sports and manual labour, but nobody wants to work manualy as you can get a degree in college and do most of your work using your brain).
So I wouldn’t just say that evolution is a bad thing as you still got a chance to
be brutal, tough or whatever you want to be…take up mma or boxing…whatever you like.
I still prefer this to hunting mammoths:)
And it isn’t like all our ancestors were gladiators and tough guys, but yeah life in general was probably harder.
IMO
[quote]mr_slick wrote:
SWR wrote:
Further proof that the “aliens” we’ve seen are just visits from our future selves.
Stuff like these things get invented, and only our minds develop more and more while our bodies become the tiny, skinny, brittle things you’ve seen with Alien sightings.
I can’t wait until we figure out how to time travel!
Cant agree more. That evolution for you. Look at Neanderthals and Cavemen. They killed Sabertooth tigers and Mammoths with their bare,fucking hands. Fast forward a little bit,Gladiators fought againts each others to the death and even killed tigers and bears as well. Look how tough and brutal they were. When technology got better,we became weaker and softer. If you think were in a sad state now,think about how pussified our grandchildren will be.
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cavemen used traps, stones and spears to kill animals. their brains did most of the work and their might finished the deed at the behest of their brains causing them to make their thoughts actions.
by most accounts, they were able to intelligently trap their targets and once trapped they killed them by bashing their heads with large rocks or by throwing spears at them.
naturally, spears evolved in to bow and arrow sets, which with the discovery of gun powder turned to guns.
gladiators did fight to the death. our society doesn’t allow that, but if we did people are still perfectly capable of killing each other with knives and swords. most gladiators died while fighting the wild animals, which was the point.
hollywood plays up the gladiator and every other warrior image for profit. In reality, gladiators were captives who were forced to fight for the entertainment purposes of blood thirsty crowds. tools on the losing end of tough really.
we are still pretty tough and brutal if we measure ourselves by your standards (combat prowress apparantly). our military does use guns but that doesn’t detract from it’s toughness at all. go fight in a war and see how “weak” they are.
besides, a body is only part of a tough or survival equation. if raw strength and power were all we needed and brains were worthless, we would be twenty foot tall, 500 lb big foots with down syndrome rather than humans.
i don’t think ancients were any tougher than we are. just much more uneducated. we are the product of thousands of years of discovery and creative inventions.we have the same skeletal and muscular structures they had, with better knowledge and equipment we use to manipulate our bodies to grow strong and large.
and it isn’t like everyone in rome was running around like a bad ass madman. they had their softies too.
[quote]SWR wrote:
Further proof that the “aliens” we’ve seen are just visits from our future selves.
Stuff like these things get invented, and only our minds develop more and more while our bodies become the tiny, skinny, brittle things you’ve seen with Alien sightings.
I can’t wait until we figure out how to time travel![/quote]
Here’s the secret. Travel faster than light, and you can essentialy go back in time.
I dont think it is only the fact that humans in the early years were typically stronger because of the thigns they had to do.
They were also just more savage. I mean… even if pro athletes are in better shape then people have ever been able to achieve, it doesnt mean that they are good fighters and coudl stand up against somebody who is in a total bloodlust.
I just think that in some situations it doesnt matter how strong you are, if you are fighting a person who is totally insane wtf are you going to do about them?
another exoskeleton…
In the picture the wanker is handling 5kg dumbbells!
Hahahahahahaha!