NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0%2C12543%2C676853%2C00.html

Thought all you nay sayers would enjoy reading this article from Popular Science, seems someone has produced Metal Rubber, which just so happens to be Metal Polymere, which just so happens to be what the proposed Mecha's would need to use as the control and synthetic "muscles" to allow movement without the high weight penalty of solid metal mechanics.

One step closer for Science Fiction turned reality, maybe anime and science fiction is just a reality that has not "happened" yet in our current existence of time. But might have already occurred and we are just sort of "re-discovering" it again as a human race.

Very nice, but I still can't see mecha being remotely practical.

I have to agree. If the human bipedal form was really so great combat wise, you'd see more bipedal land-based predators in the wild.

Oh, sure, mecha, from a technical standpoint, can work, they'll just eat lead/molten copper/depleted uranium/HMX/etc on the battlefield.

However, what the headline says shows what the stuff will really be good for. I'll probably use this to upgrade my aircraft's mission adaptive/active aeroelastic wings.