Engineering Question

[Section_31]

Could "they" build an AT-AT if "they" wanted to? Do we have the technical shit and would it walk proper?

 

 

[aws]

I've seen something like that in a film once and it was walking fine until it got tripped up.

[neko]

yup - bit of a design flaw, or achilles heel, those legs are.

[Stouffer]

Any reason to post these images.

 

 

[Mr T]

It would make a decent scrap heap challenge.

 

These wicked guys have built a four legged walking system (don't know how to post youtube):

 

 

Check out the other videos posted by dontpanic.

[Caramac]

This ones amazing, very clever. Especially when its on the ice :wow:

So yes l suppose we do have the technology

 

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Edited July 1, 2009 by CaramaC

[Cardie]

This ones amazing, very clever. Especially when its on the ice :wow:

So yes l suppose we do have the technology

 

[YOUTUBE]cHJJQ0zNNOM[/YOUTUBE]

 

One day it's going to swing around and annihilate the fucker who kicked him.

[Section_31]

Could it be done though? I'm no Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but is there anythin obvious stoppin an AT-AT being built? Surely we can move legs and stuff?

[George Costanza]

I'm pretty sure it could be, however i'd expect there to be eight legs rather than four for stability purposes.

[Victor Ganges]

I bet Uncle Meat could have a serious stab at it using old computers and classic motorbike parts.

[RedKnight]

There's no way those legs could be so thin and support all that weight plus the amount of machinary required to make them work would need to be stored somewhere. The big model at Disney World impressed me though.

[Section_31]

There's no way those legs could be so thin and support all that weight plus the amount of machinary required to make them work would need to be stored somewhere. The big model at Disney World impressed me though.

 

Couldn't you stick the engines in the gut where the snowtroopers would normally kick back? What if the legs were some titanium style shite? Someone help a brother out here.

[Unrighteous]

I reckon that they could manage to build an AT-AT, but it'd would need to be modified a bit.

 

How ace would that be though? Looks like the USA are sending in the AT-ATs to slaughter some innocents!

[ReddOrDedd]

Could "they" build an AT-AT if "they" wanted to? Do we have the technical shit and would it walk proper?

 

I have no doubt it would be possible, at a massive expense. The thing is, the military are really, really tight on their expenditure - they never want to go spending gazillions and gazillions of pounds of taxpayers' money on meaningless, shithouse projects.

 

For that reason alone, it could never happen.

 

 

 

(Hang on... telegram... yes, they do. Expect the AT-AT within four years.)

[DJLJ]

Could easily be done, everything is there. But "we" have moved way beyond that already. It is one of those that was "future" earlier, present has now overtaken "future".