07-23-2016, 08:11 AM
(07-23-2016, 04:05 AM)Surge Wrote:(07-23-2016, 02:27 AM)Lost Rinoah Wrote: science fiction is what inspires actual scientists to try new things, in spite of the matter that their peers may think them crazy until they finally succeed. Games like Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri would be lame without such an idealWell the elastomer isn't quite the same as battlemech myomer, being made in sheets as opposed to fiber bundles, but the end function is the same.
Rarely is the same. Like how holograms aren't suspended in midair but need a source material to catch the light.
Alternately, looking at exo-suits and the philosophy of what powered armor is for. And why Fallout got powered armor so wrong. Try plated exo-suit.
There is also oobleck, long ago there was an attempt to adapt the use of wax for body armor, with the ideal being that it was both a liquid and a solid. There are things like liquid blades. (carefully controlled magnetic fields combined with ferro-fluid) in old sci-fi we are on our way to creating.
Heck, we're on our way to creating plasma spikes and other such energy expensive procedure.
Inspiration is everywhere.