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We’re getting closer, but we’re not producing “Starship Troopers”-style armor yet:

Of course, the Roughnecks in the title would be the ones from either Robert Heinlein�s book Starship Troopers, or the cartoon (Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles), which was made after the horrible Paul Verhoeven film, not the film itself, which depicted the soldiers without powered armor (love Dina Meyer, but hated the movie, so I had to get that in). The real-life idea here is technology to let soldiers carry up to 220 lbs. in backpacks over all types of terrain. A design team at the University of California, Berkeley, under the lead of Professor Homayoon Kazerooni has completed work on their first prototype, Bleex 1 (Berkeley Lower Extremity EXoskeleton) and are working on Bleex 2.

Can you imagine Rico and the Roughnecks strolling through Fallujah? Sweet. But all we’ve got now is a prototype that will help Poor Bloody Infantry haul more stuff.

And I do agree: Dina Meyer is hot. Denise Richards looks like she could snap in two at any moment (not to mention the lousy taste in men she has). And that hack Paul Verhoeven should fall into a crevice and never crawl out as far as I’m concerned.

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The Motley Fool invokes The Master to explain the moral pitfalls of socially responible investing:

Besides, basing your investments on emotion can lead you to some weird places. Suppose you’re a die-hard environmentalist opposed to mining companies’ practices. Does that mean you’ll boycott any product made with metal? Where do you draw the line? As author Robert Heinlein wrote, “Just bear in mind that a person who eats meat is on the same moral level as the butcher.”

I am also reminded of Mama Maureen’s newspaper column about investment tips in “To Sail Beyong the Sunset.”

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The Master is invoked to defend the 2nd Amendment:

In their view, only important people like politicians, celebrities and the rich deserve armed protection. But as Robert Heinlein put it, “When only cops have guns, it’s called a ” ‘police state.’ “

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