Mecha Talk

If I couldn't wheedle myself into a suit with enough gadgets and tricks to offer options for any role, I'd probably stick to heavy fire support. Let the hot-doggers make the finales while I make the scum take cover.

Just because people tend to forget about it, and it does technically count: Gerbera Tetra had two mono-eyes.

Now I have to read the completed version and see where you messed up in retrograde??

The second one lacks pants, though; that might be a problem. That'd be a matter of opinion. :P Denied the bulk of my resources here and going off of dead reckoning, I'll go out on a limb and say that the Kerguran one is a ground forces version, while pants-less is a Fleet one. Someone with better a...

Sweet. We'll make a party of it to relieve the boredom.

Try Heinlein, not Clarke, if you're grasping for literary influences.

Just to throw a breach into the "pure genetics" camp's razor-wire barricade:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/26/ge ... index.html

Perfection does require experimentation, though, so this may not have any far-reaching consequences for the whole treatment.

This one is worth watching. Think Event Horizon with lots of light and no sub-par acting.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/24/bion ... index.html

This one's been making the rounds.

My $.02? Both. There's always room for improvement, even on God's design.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289661,00.html

Anyone else think this is looking familiar?

ShadowCell wrote:I don't get points for managing to quadruple-post over the course of about a month?

Damn.

You're in no danger of having your record beaten by me. Quit griping.

EZero8 wrote:Welcome to Mechatalk! Just to note, your avatar is too big as the size limit is 80x80 pixels here. Please remove it.

Removal, no. Alter size, definitely.

I love this new layout. The ezBoard had nothing on this.

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