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Author Topic: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?  (Read 43688 times)

Karnewarrior

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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #255 on: March 10, 2013, 11:24:11 am »
Now they just have to invent power armor and a few advances in biotech and we could have Spartans!

And then Kim Jong-un was a Spartan. The shortest Spartan.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #256 on: March 10, 2013, 11:43:30 am »
Now, all we need is Omnigel.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #257 on: March 10, 2013, 12:42:53 pm »
Quote from: Karnewarrior on March 10, 2013, 11:24:11 am
Now they just have to invent power armor.

The French have beat the Americans in the development race for the new future soldier system, they already have around 20,000.

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Look at dem pauldrons. British will follow up with 35,000 of their own FIST systems (lol) whilst the Americans have been slowed down somewhat by their cancelling the Land Warrior program in 2007 and then restarting it. Eh, the British'll just lend the Americans their design if they really have to, plus I hear something's going on between Russia and France over their system.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #258 on: March 10, 2013, 12:44:55 pm »
Wait, why do they need vibrators?
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #259 on: March 10, 2013, 12:45:22 pm »
*Oh yeah the bulletproof kneepads are there to protect the knee from arrows and the like. A bullet to the leg can be saved, a bullet to the knee is usually fatal. The more you /know.

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Wait, why do they need vibrators?

To avoid concussion. The more you /know.

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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #260 on: March 10, 2013, 12:53:17 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 10, 2013, 12:45:22 pm
*Oh yeah the bulletproof kneepads are there to protect the knee from arrows and the like. A bullet to the leg can be saved, a bullet to the knee is usually fatal. The more you /know.

Wait, fatal? I knew they were usually pretty crippling, but why fatal?
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #261 on: March 10, 2013, 01:02:50 pm »
Quote from: penguinofhonor on March 10, 2013, 12:53:17 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on March 10, 2013, 12:45:22 pm
*Oh yeah the bulletproof kneepads are there to protect the knee from arrows and the like. A bullet to the leg can be saved, a bullet to the knee is usually fatal. The more you /know.
Wait, fatal? I knew they were usually pretty crippling, but why fatal?
I don't know. Why else have bulletproof kneepads and not much else? The French are onto something here.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #262 on: March 10, 2013, 01:05:25 pm »

There's a big artery in the knee. Popliteal.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #263 on: March 10, 2013, 03:37:40 pm »
Not shiny enough to be power armor.

Needs bulletproof visor. For faceless slaughtering. Bonus points if it's retractable so that Spartan can retract it if it's filled with bullet cracks and keep fighting.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #264 on: March 10, 2013, 03:39:13 pm »
Quote from: Karnewarrior on March 10, 2013, 03:37:40 pm
Not shiny enough to be power armor.

...I think I'll have to listen to Hansvice on this one, and say that's just too silly to work in the modern world.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #265 on: March 10, 2013, 03:57:54 pm »
Ah, but the trick is that for every one soldier in shiny power armor that you do see, there are nine with very good camouflage that you don't.  :P
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #266 on: March 10, 2013, 04:10:11 pm »
Quote from: Flying Dice on March 10, 2013, 03:57:54 pm
Ah, but the trick is that for every one soldier in shiny power armor that you do see, there are nine with very good camouflage that you don't.  :P
AoE artillery takes care of those.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #267 on: March 11, 2013, 12:55:23 am »
So something interesting: http://www.businessinsider.com/anarchists-bomb-scientists-like-ted-2013-3
Basically it's a group of specifically anti-nanotech (though also science in general) anarchists who have supposedly been killing/threatening scientists and/or planting bombs.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #268 on: March 11, 2013, 01:08:25 am »
Violent morons who read too much hack sci-fi and take it as truth, methinks. Grey Goo is impossible.
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Re: Will the old people of the future be as technophobic as the old people now?
« Reply #269 on: March 11, 2013, 04:00:50 am »
Yaaay, let's prohibit further scientific development! It's bad for you!
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I'm sorry, sir, but we just don't have the technogy to cure you. The only way is with nanotechnology, and that's been banned by some organization.
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