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- From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
- Subject: Mecha scientifically viable?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:22:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.162255.16163@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec30.153635.13984@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.153635.13984@wam.umd.edu>, danrama@wam.umd.edu (Daniel Bloomfield Ramagem) writes:
- > I just watched the first two Patlabor on TV eps. and remembered once hearing
- > something about those robotic machines -- Labors -- being actually possible
- > to construct. Someone said they are, in an engineering sense, possible.
- > Wasn't there some sort of discussion on this topic a while back? Or some
- > sort of article out (if so, where could I find it?) ?
-
- This thread shows here every so often. The usual consensus is that yes,
- mecha CAN be constructed with current technology. Terribly inefficient
- machines, and not nearly as graceful or agile as their anime counterparts,
- but they can be constructed. Now if you can find someone to bankroll the
- billions of dollars needed for mecha R&D...
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