From: julie@pascal.org

On Monday, July 28, 2014 1:19:50 PM UTC-6, Shawn Wilson wrote:
> On Monday, July 28, 2014 11:32:16 AM UTC-7, Michelle Bottorff wrote:
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> Thing is, powered armor is fine, so long as you HAVE power.  What do you do
when it runs out?  Soldiers can never be *guaranteed* a functioning logistics
tail.

If you're in space and the power runs out, you're dead.

IRL, the loss of technological support is a real problem... but it doesn't
actually mean that making everyone learn how to do their military tasks
"analog" is a reasonable solution.  Granted, there is a real good reason that
any talk about making 
military weapons "safe" by adding a technological "authorized user"
kill-switch gives operators the hives. "But your enemy can't pick up your gun
and shoot you," isn't persuasive.

But we already, now, depend so heavily on technology that a "loss of power"
would be devastating.  But the benefits and increased functionality outweigh
the risk.

There is no reason to think that a military with power-suit commandos wouldn't
put small people in those suits.

-Julie

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