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Shadowrun General => Gear => Topic started by: Caine Hazen on <09-27-10/1152:56>
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http://gizmodo.com/5647738/titanium-foam-builds-wolverine-bones-+-health-+-23-september-2010
titanium bone lacing on its way :D
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That is freaking sweet.
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Very shiny I like
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Now I'm just gonna wait for someone to secretly replace their athlete's bones with titanium.
Stronger, faster, better!
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Well there was that guy who was banned from a running club as he had those running blade type lower legs because he was faster and had a longer stride then the normal runners in the club.
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For more on how life is catching up to ShadowRun, check out this Cracked article on jobs that are being replaced by robots.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18759_6-iconic-jobs-that-are-going-away-forever.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_18759_6-iconic-jobs-that-are-going-away-forever.html)
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http://gizmodo.com/5647738/titanium-foam-builds-wolverine-bones-+-health-+-23-september-2010
titanium bone lacing on its way :D
First step for mr to be like Usda! If there was a 98% chance of success I'd do it in a heart beat!
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Ah, but it's not just the laced bones that's coming down the pipes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100912/ts_afp/sciencebiotechrobotshealthskin (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100912/ts_afp/sciencebiotechrobotshealthskin)
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How could I have forgotten Neon Samurai's favorite pet peeve (http://gizmodo.com/5560206/the-spyder-iii-pro-arctic-is-a-real-life-lightsaber)?
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God, he really foamed at the mouth at that one.
Can a street sam get nerdrage?
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that thing looks small enough to mount as an underbarrel attachment...
under-barrel combat laser!!!
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How could I have forgotten Neon Samurai's favorite pet peeve (http://gizmodo.com/5560206/the-spyder-iii-pro-arctic-is-a-real-life-lightsaber)?
Drooooool. I want one. It would be so cool to use for fabrication and sculpture. I could cut lots o things.
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Nano-second buyout around the corner? (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/07/60minutes/main6936075.shtml)
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Curse you, Damien Knight!
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Welcome Riggers & Hackers (http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_a_headset_that_reads_your_brainwaves.html)
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Oh, and the Matrix UI (http://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_with_a_gesture.html)
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Combine that with the mental controls, and you have the hacker/technomancer of Shadowrun.
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First Cyborg
(http://dowzocalypse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/shock.jpg) (http://en.vidivodo.com/188787/first-cyborg-of-the-world)
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Interesting times... just gotta wait about a year for the awakening. ;)
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posts like these make me wonder if I should start a topic concerning continuing human involvement in war. for clarification I am referring to soldiers on the ground making decisions as opposed to drones feed data to pencil pushers positioned far away from the conflict.
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You're always going to need someone on the ground to hold if not take ground. A drone is nowhere near as adaptable as a person is.
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What if they are controlled by a human far behind the lines who can take in all the data and form a picture about the conditions on the ground? For the record, I'm referring to anthroform drones.
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I still doubt their effectiveness. Unless it was somehow a full immersion experience the chance to miss something would still be high. Not all stimuli are vision or sound based. It would be extremely difficult to transfer all that data. You also run the risk of jamming.
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Like the sixth world. There is always ECCM.
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Yeah, but it's still a risk that I think is too big to take. For zerg rushes? Sure send in the drones. For important stuff you need people on the ground.
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Drones are real today... i.e. Mobile Detection Assessment and Response System (MDARS) (http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/08/robots-guarding-us-nuclear-stockpile-video/#more-21854)
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I know, they just haven't replaced us yet and I don't think they will, anytime soon anyway.
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Augmented Reality Enters mainstream vocabulary (http://www.publicradio.org/columns/marketplace/business-news-briefs/2010/10/augmented_reality_drones_attac.html)
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Drones will never replace human soldiers.
They may, however, become the main shocktroops on the front line, with the human troops following up behind them.
-k
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Something I just came across today: Stem Cell Gun Heals Burn Victims in a Weekend (http://dvice.com/archives/2011/02/healing-burns-i.php). There are some disturbing pictures in the video, but overall this is just fraggin' amazing! (oh, and the stem cells are cultured directly from the victim when they get to the ER)
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Science!
I have to say, job well done!
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Well argumented realities are on the way. 8)
It is built in many items now
look at this
https://www.zealoptics.com/transcend/
One other software add on shows other persons using it and distante to them.
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DON"T YOU 404 ON ME! (sorry couldn't help myself.) Just found this while doing some background checking for gear, and figured i should share condisering I've seen at least one arguement out there that stick and shocks should only be fired from shotguns. So I present, Stick-N-Shocks! (http://www.taser.com/products/military/taser-xrep) IRL version! (So now for sake of discussion, they can at least be fired via Shotgun. :P)
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Heh. It's kinda funny to me how stuff like the XREP and MetalStorm and Shear-Thickening Armor keep getting brought up as "new" every few months.
-k
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DON"T YOU 404 ON ME! (sorry couldn't help myself.) Just found this while doing some background checking for gear, and figured i should share condisering I've seen at least one arguement out there that stick and shocks should only be fired from shotguns. So I present, Stick-N-Shocks! (http://www.taser.com/products/military/taser-xrep) IRL version! (So now for sake of discussion, they can at least be fired via Shotgun. :P)
Shotguns: What can't they do?
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Heh. It's kinda funny to me how stuff like the XREP and MetalStorm and Shear-Thickening Armor keep getting brought up as "new" every few months.
Sorry chum, I wasn't aware that it'd already been posted up, I just saw it and figured I should share.
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Heh. It's kinda funny to me how stuff like the XREP and MetalStorm and Shear-Thickening Armor keep getting brought up as "new" every few months.
Sorry chum, I wasn't aware that it'd already been posted up, I just saw it and figured I should share.
What I'm enjoying recently is a nice little article advising how 70mm rockets can be fitted with Infra-red smart-guidance systems now...
Ever seen the rippling effect of a 70mm rocket pod?
here's a clip to familiarise yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eud0nwCjgkk
the 00:33 second mark is where it fires 20x 70mm rockets...don't blink or you'll miss it.
Pretty, chunky, but inaccurate
Now the fun news, they've miniaturised an infra-red guidance system so that the whole system (with guide-fins) turns these normally 'dumb' 70mm rockets into guided missiles...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/12/navy_spits_out_6kg_fire_and_forget_missile/
Ergo, every one of those 20 missiles could strike a different and moving target (without having to keep the little red laser pointer on the mark...sight target, click fire, fly away...boom.)
For the record, a direct hit from a 70mm rocket with an Armor-Piercing warhead will disable most tanks....but because you can rarely guarantee a hit, they don't normally use this loadout.
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/275in-rockets.html
Suddenly, helicopters just got a whole lot nastier...and more importantly, RPG's can now become a sneaky, brief-case sized threat with a smart-assassin style guided war head.
This is especially usefulfor the fun battle-copters like this :)
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/topic/12302007/Hydra_70
And even little scouty-piss-ants like this could legitimately tell a moving armoured vehicle to back the hell away...
http://www.americanspecialops.com/photos/night-stalkers/ah-6j-parked.php
Which means that for Shadowrun, we could quite soon see stuff like this:
http://www.cncden.com/cnc3_concept2/NOD_AttackBike_MissilePodsAlt01.jpg
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That bike sucks, this one back in the 80s was way better.
http://wn.com/Mega_Force
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It also means that the backpack mounted Ballista system isn't far fetched, anymore.
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It also means that the backpack mounted Ballista system isn't far fetched, anymore.
I don't know about shooting it from your back though. I'd be down packing it around on my back, but personally I'd mount it on the deck before sending the rain. ;)
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Presumably, the person using it would be in full combat armor, and thus protected from the backblast.
That's how I would use it, anyway. I like my skin to be the non-melty kind.
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Presumably, the person using it would be in full combat armor, and thus protected from the backblast.
That's how I would use it, anyway. I like my skin to be the non-melty kind.
I'd like to set that thing up like a concealed anti personnel area denial weapon. Just think of the OH SHIT on their faces as 20 individually guided HE/Frag rockets pop out of nowhere and waste a platoon of their dudes. the cost of 20 70MM smart rockets? a few thousand dollars. Cost of a backpack launcher unit? Another few thousand dollars. The expression on their faces when the whole patrol gets wiped out from nowhere? Priceless. ;D
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I cooked up one of those at the Trigger Talk thread. You can read it here (http://forums.shadowrun4.com/index.php?topic=277.msg6267#msg6267).
And here's the quote:
I had an idea while at work (I get bored, and need to think of something) regarding grenade launchers. Take a few of the 6 shot pistol grenade launchers, and give them the crawling upgrade. This makes them micro-drones (essentially) with a Pilot of 1. Upgrade the Pilot program a little bit, stick in a Gunnery program, some Encryption, maybe some IC, a commlink, and a smartlink. Put in grenades of whatever flavor you wish.
Now, when you assault some stronghold, keep those drone 'links on hidden, and set them around the perimeter of the location. When you need a distraction or just a little extra firepower, call up your launchers and send target coordinates. If you need to, use a laser designator. BAM, instant mortar fire.
Another idea I had, a little more odd mind you, was to take the grenade launcher rifle, give it a drum magazine and convert it to full auto-fire. Just the thing when you need to suppress an area.
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I had an idea while at work (I get bored, and need to think of something) regarding grenade launchers. Take a few of the 6 shot pistol grenade launchers, and give them the crawling upgrade. This makes them micro-drones (essentially) with a Pilot of 1. Upgrade the Pilot program a little bit, stick in a Gunnery program, some Encryption, maybe some IC, a commlink, and a smartlink. Put in grenades of whatever flavor you wish.
Now, when you assault some stronghold, keep those drone 'links on hidden, and set them around the perimeter of the location. When you need a distraction or just a little extra firepower, call up your launchers and send target coordinates. If you need to, use a laser designator. BAM, instant mortar fire.
Another idea I had, a little more odd mind you, was to take the grenade launcher rifle, give it a drum magazine and convert it to full auto-fire. Just the thing when you need to suppress an area.
Little metal storms.... awww, ain't they cute?