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Super-Strong Synthetic Muscles Developed
Too Hot! wrote to mention a BBC article about extremely powerful synthetic muscles. From the article: "The most powerful type, 'shorted fuel cell muscles' convert chemical energy into heat, causing a special shape-memory metal alloy to contract. Turning down the heat allows the muscle to relax. Lab tests showed that these devices had a lifting strength more than 100 times that of normal skeletal muscle. Another kind of muscle being developed by the team converted chemical energy into electrical energy which caused a material made from carbon nanotube electrodes to bend."
Point. And it would mean another war somewhere because, after all, you've got to try out your new toys under combat conditions.
I was thinking of situations like Darfur when I was posting. Given what the militia manages to do there with nothing more than horses and guns (and bows and arrows), then turning them into what amounts superhumans wouldn't paint a pretty picture at all. Bush at least has to care a little bit about the bad PR he gets when the US troops randomly kill civilians. At least, I imagine he gets that bad PR not just here in Europe.