Ok the exoskeleton thing is cool but the "and we are having them wear a helmet that reads their brain waves to see if they enjoy it" pulls it right back to super villain territory.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - May 19, 2017 7:12:08 am PDT #11682 of 30002
Dana - May 19, 2017 7:21:32 am PDT #11683 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Have now walked down TWO halls and up/down ten stairs.
Steph L. - May 19, 2017 7:24:54 am PDT #11684 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Have now walked down TWO halls and up/down ten stairs.
#winning
Toddson - May 19, 2017 7:33:29 am PDT #11685 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Back in ... 1969? ... Fritz Leiber wrote a book called "A Specter Is Haunting Texas" and the protagonist is from an orbiting habitat and, in order to function on Earth, wears an exoskeleton. First time I'd heard of such a thing ... and it sounds cool.
Connie Neil - May 19, 2017 7:45:11 am PDT #11686 of 30002
brillig
Have now walked down TWO halls and up/down ten stairs.
Make sure you keep people informed of where you are. Don't wander off to look at the babies on the birthing wing and go out of the range of the LoJack that's keeping track of your vitals. Staff do not like to try to explain to visitors that they've lost a patient--NO NOT LIKE THAT, we just don't know where he is.
Ask me how I know.
Steph L. - May 19, 2017 7:48:23 am PDT #11687 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
go out of the range of the LoJack that's keeping track of your vitals.
My Dad's M.O. from back in the day. (To be fair, he didn't actually realize there was a range limit, and he just wanted a newspaper and didn't want to bother anyone to bring him one, so he figured he'd just go to the lobby and buy one from the gift shop.)
Connie Neil - May 19, 2017 8:00:20 am PDT #11688 of 30002
brillig
Yeah, Hubby had that "Whuh?" look of male bafflement when he trundled back with his IV stand to find me chewing out freaked-out staff.
Dana - May 19, 2017 8:00:32 am PDT #11689 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I am not planning on wandering anywhere, except to the bathroom and back to prove I'm able to leave.
-t - May 19, 2017 8:07:50 am PDT #11690 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Very responsible, Dana.
-t - May 19, 2017 8:17:06 am PDT #11691 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OK, I think I got the front yard into a state that will not bring down the wrath of the fire danger abatement people while I am out of town. Although all my weeds were green and unlikely to burn easily, honestly.
I have approximately one billion more things to do before I leave tomorrow but I'm gonna take maybe an hour to lie under this ceiling fan and read because I am on vacation, dammit.