Project Grizzly

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Posted by Hemos on Tuesday September 21, 1999 @12:28AM from the mommy-can-i-have-one dept.

theGEEK writes "A friend came across this article on Suck yesterday. I actually know this guy... and his Anti-Bear Suit is actually quite impressive. Troy is a very interesting, if somewhat dramatic guy-so much so the National Film Board of Canada made a movie about him, and his project. You'll never believe your eyes when you see him repeatedly get hit by a truck at at 50 KPH or when he gets beaten by bikers wielding axes and baseball bats." So, if anyone wants to get me a Christmas present, I'll take one of these.

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Yet Another Server Benchmark? by Anonymous Coward · 1999-09-20 17:01 · Score: 4

Gives me some ideas for some new server benchmarks:
DrunkBikerWeb: Maximum number of concurrent biker-beatings server is able to sustain while still serving web pages.
SleepyTruckerWeb: Maximum number of hits from a three-tonne truck travelling at 50 kilometres an hour while still serving web pages.
FallingTreeWeb: Maximum number of collisions with a 136 kilgram (300 lb.) tree from a height of 9 metres (30 ft.) while still serving web pages.
Bubblegum Crisis meets Yogi Bear by Pascal+Q.+Porcupine · 1999-09-20 18:29 · Score: 4

[Jellystone Park, 2035. An evil is stealing picnic baskets from camping families. And so, the Knight Sabers come to save the day!]
Narrator: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup-- wait, wrong series...
[Narrator leaves]
Yogi: Hey, Booboo, I see a picnic basket! Let's have lunch!
Booboo: I don't know, Yogi, what if the Knight Sabers catch us?
Yogi: Not to worry, Booboo! I am a bear! I can maul them easily!
[Yogi reaches into a basket. Suddenly, his arm is shot off.]
Priss: Eat death, evil!
[Priss and Sylia swoop down from the sky, guns blazing. Yogi dies.]
Booboo: Nooooooooooo! CURSE YOU, KNIGHT SABERS!

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Actually useful by jabber · 1999-09-20 16:43 · Score: 5

I know a lot of people are snickering, having seen the film. But, at least show the man's dedication some respect, and read the article.

He touches on some really good stuff there, and the potential for the new suit he's working on, the G-Man, is pretty awesome. 90% mobility, 120lbs!! As Troy says, it's the gear of a fully dressed fireman. Consider the SWAT/RIOT applications? The earthquake disaster recovery usage - where you don't have to worry about dying in a collapsed building, but you can still climb a crumbling stair case... The military apps, as some have said, approach Starship Troopers... Yeah, at $300K a piece it's pricey, but it's cheaper than a tank, and with some power-assist it might do just as much damage.

Then there's the blurb about the suit enabling him to get a sample of Grisly blood during semi-hibernation, for use in NASA research into astronaut hibernation for extended, deep-space flights.

At first glance at the vid this may seem goofy, but there's real potential there.

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Class 10 Armor??! by GOD_ALMIGHTY · 1999-09-20 16:55 · Score: 5

>If I say it's got a Class 10 armor on it, which is probably four times the strength of any armor out there, that's because we've tested it in sections.

Why would anyone think they could get away with selling Class 10 armor for 1.2 million ca (obviously that is a typo and they mean cp. Weird Canadians, why can't they use gp like everyone else). Sheesh anyone with a good old Player's Handbook knows that even a plain old cloak will get you a Class 9. Heck, you could get cheap old chain mail and get a whole Class 5 and that might cost 10000 cp (100 gp, but those Canuks?!). I personally would want some decent Plate Mail for a wonderful class 3 (and at only 30000 cp, a comparative steal).

Is this thing some sort of artifact? Am I missing something?

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Ahh safety by schporto · 1999-09-20 16:03 · Score: 4
(pardon the extreme wrongness of this but..)
Think of the great uses:
- Defense against bears
- Walk through New York and live.
- Walk through Beruit and live.
- Wave a British flag in Northern Ireland and live.
- Wave a German flag at a Arsenal game, and live.
- Send messages toe the ATF stating you are a cult leader. And live!
- Block a Neo-Nazi march. Holding up Black Panther, Gay Pride, and Isreali flag. And live!
- Hold a disgrunteled Postal Employee's meeting. And live!
Mommy can I have one for XMass.
-cpd
Insane, yes, so what? by Enoch+Root · 1999-09-20 17:21 · Score: 4

I don't know, this guy doesn't sound so wacko. I mean, great geniuses had much weirder ideas than taking plasma from Grizzlies in order to promote extended space flight. (Hmm. Put that way, I have doubts suddenly.) Take for instance Tesla: he wanted to build giant towers to harness the Earth's magnetic fields. Madman? Yes. Genius? Yes, also.
This Bear Suit sounds like it's an awkward approach to the problem it was designed to solve (sustain a Grizzly's attack), but it sounds like it has fantastic applications. Put a cop in that suit, and off he goes into a terrorist-laden building. Make this suit airtight, and you've got a Battletech-like elemental suit.
I bet this suit will be useful down the line. His creator will be barely remembered, only perhaps as a footnote, as the guy who tried so very hard, but didn't quite succeed in the end. They'll look back on the wacko shaving with a Bowie, and smile, thinking the only application he saw was to tackle bears.
I wish him luck. He may be insane, but the most remarkable men are.

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