The potential of having a nanosuit.

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As technology progresses for soldiers and Marines, I hope to see the nanosuit come to fruition before I die of old age.

The potential of the nanosuit giving the operator's ability to move faster, increase strength, all armor head to toe, and cloaking ability aka camouflage.

I won't tell you how these abilities help the troops, I'm sure many of you know what it could do, but I posted a video of how troops would use it, of course in reality, this person acting as a soldier with the suit goes around punching and throwing things. But I'm sure you like to do that in the field, however stupid and dangerous it looks to you.

Of course such technology would take decades, can't imagine it coming out in the year 2020, most like beyond 2050. Most important is the cost of such a suit, probably limited to only special operations units only instead of the whole Army and Marine force.

You forgot to add about the self-destruct device, which would disable the enemy's ability to get the suit off your corpse and make them for their own troops.

In the right hands this kind of equipment could make a rookie a crack-operative.

I imagine that once a suit of this type does become operational, then giant armies as we know them will cease to exist. SOCOM would become THE army for the USA, SAS for UK......etc. Between these suits, orbital transports and pilotless aircraft, the military on a whole will become the elite of the elite.

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True, most likely a nano tech that consumes the suit, as well as the dead operator. Explosives would be too dangerous.

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But nessecary.

Even a sample of nano-technology designed to destroy other nano-technology would be dangerous in the hands of the enemy - once you have an actual sample of something copying it isn't that hard.

Perhaps it would be better to use some sort of heart-rate monitor, which when the heart-rate stops completely the fuse on the bomb (or Nano-bomblets, if you prefer) would activate, with a 30 second delay just incase the guy's heart skipped a beat or something.

That way, the people who took the special operative down would be standing over him wondering what the hell he's wearing when the bomb goes off, thereby killing the witnesses too.

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You should realize that if an operator were to be killed while evacuating on helo or on a boat, the explosives would pretty much kill his buddies.

Thats why I prefer if there was some kind of technology that consumes the suit and the operator while not endangering other people around him.

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If it were possible to use nano-technology for teleportation, i imagine you could just put yourself in the middle of a mountain or something..

But then again, that's probably an impossibility.



Mental Note: Teleportation through nano-technology?

Most of this technology is already on it's way. A suit is already made that moves when it detects a brain signal to your limbs and then moves for you. It's not as great as the nano suit but your strength becomes 2 or 3 times as much, your speed is slowed down alot as well.

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Also cloaking can be done but its not very good and it only works if you look from about 5 metres away and from in front. It works by a camera which records the background behind him and then a projector projects it, the coat is made of an extremely reflective material.

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The problem with that is If someone wanted to do something which they know they shouldn't and wouldn't really follow through on it, the suit might make them do it.

That can't happen, the suit only reads brain signals for muscle movements not what your thinking about doing.

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you know how much i hate you delta? :p
i just orderd call of Duty 4 and now i want this game

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Ya man you got screwed COD 4 has nothing on crysis. im actually rebuilding the core of my PC for this game (just order 4 gigs of ocz ram and an 880GTS 640.)

On topic, I think the potential for abuse is a scary possibility. There would definately have to be some kind of fail-safes included in the suit or the operator (maybe the operator needs to be injected with something that is critical to the function of the suit?) I think we will see the implimentation of nano tech in our life times (at least in mine) but i dont know on what scale.

Hooya! Let's bring democracy to every fur, oil bearing country everywhere! Just put another ribbon on my SUV. Bloody hell!

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You can always change your order and preorder Crysis. Don't be hating.

Have you tried the demo yet?

I would disagree with that. You can copy a AK-47 and even that, as we know, doesn't always work well (the steel used for the barrells a know-how). With nanotech, manufacturing nanoparticles and binding them together becomes "security by obscurity".

I believe we will almost deffinetely see nano tech, or some form of it, in everyday life in our lifetimes

Look at this image of thee original doom game from 1993

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And now this is the game Doom 3 from 2004

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11 years difference and there is a very obviously large difference between the graphics of these games. This is only a rough estimate as technology and game graphicsa won't go up at the same rate but imagine what the next doom game in 10 more years could be like. Technoogy has come so far, already theyre making discs that can store over a terrabite of information that are easier to read from and to make.

If your already having to replace some of your computer for a game that recently came out what about in 10 more years when your computer can't even hold the game on it's hard-drive

The rate technology is advancing i'd say that nano-tech would deffinetely be implemented in our life times.

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I totally agree. I think its obvious the first applications for nano tech will be for military purposes, then probably medical purposes, but hopefully this tech can filter down to us regular citizens.

Oh and i dont need upgrade my pc, it will run Crysis, on minimum settings. But with a game like that, why run it on minimum settings?

This stuff all seems very interesting, I believe there was a thread around here regarding a suit which granted the user increased strength, speed and stamina. To manufacture a similar suit using nano particles doesn't seem too far fetched. Albeit, I think we are still quite a ways away from outfitting soldiers with a suit like the one the user wears in Crysis, technology was been moving at an exponential rate and I wouldn't be surprised if we saw it in our lifetimes. I definitely think if the cost was feasible and the impact would be decent well funded militaries would adopt these, the technology seems more or less there, it's just a matter of time.

This page was a cool read, if anyone wants to check it out. en.wikipedia.org...

Now going off topic for a short time, do you think my rig will be able to run Crysis well?



I have:

2.40 GHz duo core processor
640 mb EVGA GTS video card (unclocked)
2 GB corsair RAM
Asus P5B deluxe motherboard



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Ya your rig will run Crysis. Probably in the medium to high level settings (dont hope for the high settings)

Heres the general requirements: Requirements

I forgot to mention I have vista (I know, I messed up) so probably even lower settings?