Fallout Tech in Our World

Post » Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:23 am

So awhile ago i was paging thorugh searches on bing, I find that the u.s. military is developing "Powered Armor". Many Armies around the world are already in possestion of defensive laser weapons. sooo, I just wanted to know if anyone knows of any other tech, thats in fallout thats in development today.
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Nicole Kraus
 
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Post » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:52 pm

Well, robots have been around for a long while now, though it'll be a long time before we have them as capable or possessing the limited free will we see in Fallout.

Nuclear cars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Nucleon

Ford concepted one back in the late 50s. Fortunately, it never went beyond the concept stage (One factor being that Nuclear Reactors never became anywhere near small enough) and thus it never entered production. Good job really, could you imagine the consequences of a major crash?
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Post » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:08 pm

very cool! other car companies had similar concepts. I vaugely remember seeing a cadillac that was nuclear powered.

There are alot of terrible flaws, though nothing as terrible with cars today. One company being VW, they're engines contain some kind of metal that, when the car cathes fire, you can't put it out.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=U.S.+Army+Powered+armor&view=detail&id=D95CD7B2081E78B6F8CB073F3E85992872FA361F&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR

Thats the link for what our nations soldiers of tommorow are going to look like. Good lord i hope fallout didn't predict the future :P
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Post » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:21 am

If it reassures you, plenty of other furturistic series have power armour.

Battletech/Mechwarrior, Starship Troopers, Warhammer 40k etc. And only half of those have a dark future in store for us :)
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Post » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:12 pm

I've seen those, yes. But fallout 3's power armor was the most realistic looking, out of any game i've seen. the warhammer power armor looks rediculous to me.
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Post » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:23 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_recoiless_nuclear_rifle
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Post » Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:53 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M65_recoiless_nuclear_rifle



The third picture down, thats located 5 minutes away from me :D

The U.S. military has a better working version of these, available for use. looks more like an artillery piece though.
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Post » Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:42 am

I think something better might be real world tech in fallout. I've never seen a TV that is bigger than my chest. Or imagine if the Internet was in Fallout, or maybe cell phones. Maybe even modern jets.
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