Aug 212020
 

Well, *this* is interesting. I’m not seeing the immediate practical value of the thing, other than “hey, it’s cool,” but the engineering behind it is impressive. A couple generations of further development and maybe it’ll be something useful for exploring Mars, roaming battlefields, wading through “mostly peaceful protests.”

Something it shows – that sci-fi movie mechs almost never do – is that with even a modest scaleup from human-size, the human pilot in the middle gets tossed pretty badly. The humans in “Pacific Rim” size mechs would get splattered into paste by the movement of their machines.

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