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Gettin around on mars in the lower gravity would be a breeze using the Gazelle boots. These boots have a spring sytem that propels the wearer greater distances for the same physical effort.
They already exist, i do not know the real name but someone might.
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Excerpt:
"Small petrol or diesel engines fitted in the heels can propel souped-up pedestrians at a top speed of 35 km/h, the Russian daily Kommersant reported yesterday. "
[http://www.dispatch.co.za/2000/07/07/foreign/BOOTS.HTM]http://www.dispatch.co.za/2000/07/07/foreign/BOOTS.HTM
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The article does not say what the mpg of the boots are, but you would not want to run out of fuel away from base or you'd be lugging dead weight around with you until you returned to base. Would not mind giving the boots a go myself though, could be quite a laugh (perhaps I'd have to give them a bit more power though - V8 perhaps?)
There was a young lady named Bright.
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
in a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
--Arthur Buller--
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It looks fun, but I would hate to trip and fall in one of those things. Give me an ATV instead.
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very impractical.. with the gravity lighter than earths then you will be launching much higher and thus landing with more force.
say you are moving core samples.. you will need a vehicle... that is unless you want to try and jump arround with the equiptment and samples back to base...
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They sound like a good idea, but a even more practical one that will probably be technologically feasible by time we are on Mars is to have bionic space suits. I remember reading about someone who is designing nanites that are embedded into the matierial making it like muscle fibers giving the wearer added strength and enduance. DARPA is looking at it for the Future Warrior and NASA is for spacesuits and Lunar/Martian walker suits.
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In Western science fiction the cyborg is seen as scary and dystopian, usually on a horror fantasy movie or scifi tv show you see a person or, more rarely, an animal with visible added mechanical parts. "Cyborg" is not the same thing as bionics, AI, software, robots, biorobotics, or androids; it applies to an organism that has restored function or enhanced abilities. Some theorists say we already are becoming Cyborg, some have implant chip, others wear phones, and writers cite such modifications as contact lenses, artificial hips, hearing aids, smartphones, metal bars or pins inserted into the body, false teeth, or intraocular lenses as examples of fitting humans with technology. Neil Harbisson wanted to be more robot? he is a Spanish-born British-Irish-American cyborg artist and activist for transpecies rights. He is best known for being the first person with an antenna implanted in his skull, news media has described him as the world's first legally recognised cyborg and as the world's first cyborg artist. Harbisson's British passport renewal got rejected the British government would not allow him to appear with an electronic device on his head. Harbisson wrote he identified as a cyborg and that his antenna should be treated as an organ not a device, and weeks of back and forth Harbisson's photo was accepted. During a demonstration in Barcelona, Harbisson's Cyborg part of him was broken, his antenna was damaged by police who believed they were being filmed. Harbisson filed a complaint of physical aggression, not as damage to personal property, as he considers the Cyborg antenna to be a body part. Will Mars have modified people, the injured of Mars comeback stronger, will it have Cyborgs?
Beyond bionics: how the future of prosthetics is redefining humanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgTwa3CPrIE
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