04-08-2017, 06:54 AM
(04-07-2017, 08:41 PM)Lost Rinoah Wrote: I realised I had a mental issue priorly unrecognized before thanks to you that I need to work on dealing with, couldn't understand the post after I even wrote it. Plus i'm currently recovering from the flu and a near deadly body temp. I have heat rash covering most of my body.
I concede to anything you said without even reading most of it. My post was overall meaningless and confounded. Thinking from multiple points of view at the same time does that leading to making conflicting points and you shouldn't have even wasted your time and effort on me(This is the internet, WHY did you waste your time on me? I could have been trolling... I wasn't, but..). I will read your info later. But I have no reason to constitute counter points or anything.
Popular mechanics magazine a long time ago (more than ten years ago going by my own age), was a magazine for kids that had info on the prototyping of exo-suits. My brother got that magazine at one point and I went through it with him, and I figured, if they were showing our children, then it must have existed for a long while already. Even if only in a schematic or blueprint-only form. Hopefully that should clear up a tiny bit of the confusion about my points, otherwise I'm sorry. I have nothing.
Ouch, i hope you get over that flu soon.
Thus things finally become clear, and my anger has abated:
As to why i responded, 1. i have difficulty backing down from a fight (perceived or real); 2. This forum seems fairly respectable and 3. you don't strike me as the trolling type.
I do tend to ramble, so i don't always do a good job of clearly separating the sections that are my opinion, from the sections that are independently verifiable facts; and if i do make a mistake i try to take it in stride, and learn from it.
I have also read those issues of Popular Mechanics you speak of, unfortunately they where not among the back issues i saved from the PSCI library, and after Park Street was demolished and replaced about 5 years ago, those back issues probably ended up in the city dump; so i cannot attest to what those articles contained any more precisely than you can, but it's a safe bet those schematics and pictures you saw where at least 90% in house graphics, drawn mostly from the minds of a few professional artists, intermixed with a few images or photo's from the actual projects for credibility points.
As a general rule of thumb regarding magazines like Popular Mechanics and Popular Science; it is always wise to treat any major claims they make, with the same kind of healthy skepticism you would reserve for Wikipedia. They are first and foremost magazines, they can and have played fast and loose with the facts if it makes for a more interesting story.