Comments on: (More) Marines in Spaaaaaace!

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By: Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 13:31:04 +0000

How about Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel.
http://nlspropulsion.net
Can you imagine our military with this technology.
Definitely out of this world.

By: JoSchmo

JoSchmo — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:49:34 +0000

Ripley!

By: The Cenobyte

The Cenobyte — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:19:20 +0000

Sub Orbital flight that would be needed to drop these guys anywhere in the world in just a few hours was show to be fairly cheap and very much within our grasp by the X-prize. There are obviously a number of large obsticals to overcome in order to drop marines into a point target without killing them but it could be done with some R&D. The Marines are just starting to look into this knowing how many of the leaps in tech have already been made but still keeping an eye on the future.
As to what happens to the squad once they are there? Same thing that happens to para born troups I would think.

By: Moose

Moose — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:38:19 +0000

All sorts of new tech seems silly until you have it, then you often wish you’d had it sooner.

By: Dew R. Dye

Dew R. Dye — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:50:35 +0000

Why not teleport them into combat…
Also, I here halfnium grenades are all the rage.

By: sglover

sglover — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:42:16 +0000

So what are the SEAL’s good for if the Marines get their space vehicle?
I think the solution is pretty obvious. Clearly the SEAL’s need a tunneling delivery vehicle. Drilling through the center of the earth is lots more stealthy than blasting into orbit.
And when LockheedMartin/Boeing/Raytheon start cranking out the PowerPoint slides for the must-have “Mole SEAL” gadget, I want a piece of the action. All I ask is a puny 0.00000001% — about a billion or so.

By: Dew R. Dye

Dew R. Dye — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:15:29 +0000

It’s the job of guys at home on the internet and those watching poorly made slide shows at DARPA symposiums (with their Heinlein and Warhammer collections at home and dominating their subconscious) to be delusional.
Everyone of them is just dying to see exoskeletal body armor that can sustain unenforced marines for days at a time and allow them to survive tank rounds to the face.
However, sometimes, this stuff just makes me laugh. For example the jerk with the slideshow at DARPA SYMP 2004 who decided implanting artificial genetic “organs” that produce HGH and adrenaline at will, as well as let Marines go without sleep for weeks was an implementable good idea by 2015.
No thought to going home after having your brain put in a 4 year hormonal and chemical blender set to “kill”. I’m glad he wasn’t back at 2005, but the way his words put a twinkle in the eye of the other geeks there…

By: TrustButVerify

TrustButVerify — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:35:12 +0000

Right, see, I still believe cap troopers are somewhere in our future (praise be to Saint Heinlein), but somehow my crystal ball says the time is not yet upon us.
For the money this would cost a handful of infantry are a little underwhelming. And what sort of launch vehicle are they looking at? Obviously something less succeptible to weather delays is in order. The Spaceship One method has some promise, although it might require two new airframes instead of one. I don’t think NASA’s old B-52H will be up to this.
And they should wear power armor. Yeah! And have flamethrowers! And miniguns!