"We're prey?"

In a biological sense yes.  Human beings are equipped with few natural weapons, our senses are pathetic, and physically speaking we are weaker than most other animals.  In short in a natural environment we don't rank very high we've since evolved and mastered tools but we still possess the instincts of prey.

in a biological sense, we are not prey. if we were biologically prey, we would have eyes at the side of our head to view predators that try to sneak up on us and not the front of our head to improve depth perception while hunting prey. we are naturally predators. we are intelligent, we can outrun just about any land animal on earth when it comes to long distances in hot climate.

RE: Original Post

1) Old.
2) The Japanese already have an exo suit.
3) It has been public knowledge for years.
4) It is stronger than yours.
5) It is faster than yours.
6) It is better than yours.
7) Theirs was not made in China.

"It is intended to be distributed through leasing for the introductory price of 1,500,000 Japanese Yen with additional yearly charges for maintenance. This is about 15 American USD"

AHAHAHAHAHA.

"if we were biologically prey, we would have eyes at the side of our head to view predators that try to sneak up on us and not the front of our head to improve depth perception while hunting prey."

Monkies, Sloths, Fruit bats, and Koala's also have eyes in the front of their heads, they're still not predators.  Admitedly we possess predator characteristics, we have to we're omnivores, but take away a mans tools and he falls pretty far down the food chain.

"we can outrun just about any land animal on earth when it comes to long distances in hot climate."

Ok non-domesticated canines run faster than we do, same with felines, deer, bears, moose, elephants, rhinos, hippos, most rodents, and the list goes on.

"And the Germans will end up making the most bad ass Tiger mechs."

And they will have built in sound systems that blast German techno when they go into battle

rofl

It's fixed now, alas.

Was:
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Uses

According to its homepage, HAL is being designed to assist the abled and elderly in their daily sleep, or any physically demanding job such as Nintendo Wii. HAL is mainly used by disabled patients in bomb shelters to assist them in moving from one shelter to another, and can be modified so that patients can use it for fighting.

It is intended to be distributed through leasing for the introductory price of 1,500,000 Japanese Yen with additional yearly charges for maintenance. This is about 15 American USD."

I'm sorry Yell, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Here is an article from THREE YEARS AGO:

http://medgadget.com/archives/2005/04/hal_3.html

Since then over thirty Japanese companies have joined forced with Mitsui and Co, and their latest version of the suit can multiply the wearers' strength 70 times and reacts to your nerve impulses before your muscles do.

And in unrelated news I'm getting a sense of Deja Vu, it's almost like I've posted this before!

On the other hand, wtf do you do if you jump through the roof into a warehouse full of bad guys and you need to reboot?

"I don't think our biological past explains why we devellop weapons to fight eachother (no other animal kills his own species, except in extreme cases).."

Pack canines often kill each other in dominance battles.  Feline males in packs (or whatever the hell you call a whole bunch of kitties other than a pride of lions) often eat the very young of minor females--normally that is big cat behavior but on farms with 18 cats living a quasi-African lifestyle the male kittys act like their 250kg cousins.  Apes fight like hell, and chimps and bobonos use clubs and stabbing sticks to help kill foes.  And that super jumbo crocodile in West Africa, the one 6m long, he eats regular sized adult crocs for breakfast like kippers.

> avogadro wrote:

> you are stupid. People are starving so we have to ruin our lives by devoting all of our resources to save people that cant help themselves while in the process dooming all of humanity to the thugs that would overwhelm the nations that dont spend resources to find more ways to kill people.

if he's stupid, you must be a bloody imbecile. a coma patient can't help himself. a poor african can help himself. i wonder if there's many coma patients starving?