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Project Grizzly Bear-Proof Suit Up For Auction
Ch_Omega writes "The Project Grizzly suit, The 'Ursus Mark VI', a 'grizzly-proof' suit of armour', was mentioned on Slashdot a few years ago. For all of you who then wished for such a suit (for wrestling with Grizzly Bears?), both the original Mark VI and the improved Mark VII (featuring 'a built-in video screen, a cooling system, pressure-bearing titanium struts, protective airbags, shock absorbers, a robotic third arm, built-in regular arms and swivel shoulders') are now for sale on eBay!"
Actually your totally wrong. The intentions for the bear suit were hibernation research, which could lead to things like a stasis drug for deep space missions.
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http://www.unixauthority.com/~fiskeja/mirror/www.n fb.ca/grizzly/
The site was a bit slow for me, so here you are...
No, he means a point. Battle Armor points are made up of 5 suits, aerospace points are made up of two (lead and wingman), and only BattleMech points are made up of individual vehicles. A star would be 25 suits. A point is considered a single combat unit, so it's not dishonorable for one to gang up on a 'mech and take it down, which they are very capable of doing.
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.
As a coincidence, I saw the Project Grizzly documentary a couple of days ago, and I don't think I'd want my life linked with this guy's in any way. I'm paranoid enough as it is!
Someone wondered why he was selling it - most likely, he's trying to finance the next one. The guy seems to be obsessed with making these suits. According to the documentary, there are government agencies who are interested in the suits for things like firefighting and rescue, but he didn't seem like the kind of person who would get along with goverment agencies.
I can't find any references that back up the parent's account. Kodiak ripped off some chainmail while the suit was left in his cage, so the live test against Kodiak was cancelled. In all the manned tests, the bears could not be persuaded to attack - the suit looks too alien to be worth it.
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No, you can't.
If you've seen the documentary (which is absolutely hillarious, by the way, because the guy's a complete whacko), the suit (Mark VI) fails miserably because he can't walk on anything but perfectly flat ground without falling down.
They go out into the wilderness after 10 years of making and testing the suit, they find a bear, and then they can't do anything about it because they can't find any flat enough ground (in the mountains) to move around on. It's really, really stupid.
A discovery show. The guy that made this suite did all these tests and made all these redesigns. He would say, if this suite can handle a cinder block released from X feet it can surely handle a Grizzly.
The funny thing was he kept on making all these tests and statements that it would simulate an actual attack but he never "put his money where his mouth was" At least when they invited the metal mesh suite for shark attacks someone tried it out.
If any one actually saw the program they can attest to how unscientifically this whole testing affair was carried out. It was almost comical. Their was a test as mentioned above with where they man stood in the suite while his two assistants (a term I use lightly) attached a cinder block or similar item to a rope and hung it from a branch. They would pull it back/higher in stages. At one point one of the assistants thought he heard the man in the suite say go all the way and let it go, when it was only supposed to be a marginal increase. Like I said it looked like something out of the Beverly Hillbillies.
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