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'Gundam Defends Japan'
« on: October 29, 2007, 11:55:04 pm »
Gundam becoming a reality...? Read about it here.

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2007, 09:11:47 am »
That's curious...A walker unit needs somebody inside doesn't it? Then what's the difference between a walker unit and a simple tank?

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2007, 10:37:19 am »
You know, I am almost positive I have seen that picture before on a joke website, somewhere around 4 years ago. So... yeah, I'm a bit suspicious that this is a hoax. Though I'm a polyglot, Japanese isn't one of the languages I can read (or speak) so I couldn't say if the PDF it links to is even relevant (or if that is actually a Japanese government website). Can anyone actually confirm if the linked PDF addresses "mobile suits"?

But... well I guess the biggest hint that this is a hoax is the fact that Japan IS allowed a human army. The Japanese Military participated for a while in Iraq, for example, and the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (their army) is their largest military branch. Thus, with a human army, the stated need for a gundam is bunk.

I certainly don't doubt that some governments would be interested in the technology, but that technology is also incredibly difficult to implement. Perhaps I am just not aware of it, but to my understanding no one has been able to make a bipedal robot that can walk on a flat surface at a respectable speed, much less over variable terrain. Seems like the Japanese government would start on a smaller scale if this were real.

Of course, General Electric tried to work on something like this back in 1965. The Hardiman Project was largely a failure, however.

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2007, 11:32:08 am »
lol gundam.
quite obviously fake as we haven't attained that level of mobility in bipedal robots.
plus the expense of developing something like this would be insane although possible.

still wont be able to attain a gundam level of mobility to be military viable.



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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2007, 11:36:05 am »
The first things that appear when you open the page are anime boobs. How one is able to take the possibility into account wonders me.

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2007, 11:48:02 am »
The first things that appear when you open the page are anime boobs. How one is able to take the possibility into account wonders me.

Good sir, anime boobs are a very serious matter, on par with the seriousness of the duck-billed platypus or the Federate Islands of Micronesia.

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2007, 01:09:41 pm »
Yeah, it's a hoax... obviously.  For one thing, that's the RX-93 v Gundam (Nu Gundam) from Char's Counterattack.  Secondly, I saw that on a promo once... I think it was for model kits, though I'm not sure at all.  Third, if giant robots are going to cost as much money as they inevitably would, why would the military want to pay royalties to Sunrise/Bandai on top of it? :D

Still....... I'd love to have Nu Gundam...

Hell, I'd settle for a Zaku...

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2007, 02:36:45 pm »
Mecha....fanboyism....rising....

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2007, 09:58:27 pm »
I seen that before I think? Wasn't that a prop for a Gundam movie that got canceled.

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2007, 12:00:29 pm »
OMFG those look like weapons of mass destruction!!!!!!!!!!

We must go to war!

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2007, 03:10:01 pm »
OMFG those look like weapons of mass destruction!!!!!!!!!!

We must go to war!

O Azhim! Yo funny man! Funny, funny man.

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #11 on: November 01, 2007, 04:09:02 pm »


I'll raise you one Big O.

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Re: 'Gundam Defends Japan'
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2007, 07:32:58 pm »
Have they done a hentai Big O knockoff? They wouldn't even need to change the name! HA!