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Posted by: mubox47
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Posted by: True Underdog
Big Dog makes creepy noises in your general direction.Maybe it's just me, but that seems inferior in every way. If big dog were the size of a tank it wouldn't have any easier of a time going through a wooded area than treads. Sure, Big Dog does a good job of not completely falling over on ice or when some dude Leonidas-kicks it, but it also skitters around like a totalt -blam!- in both those situations. Tanks don't take no -blam!-. Big dog can climb over a small pile of cinderblocks at a slow speed with assistance from a man and a rig while the video is played at 1.5X speed, the tank could just plow through it.
Dont get me wrong, Big Dog is cool an all, but for tank purposes i think Hyle is right about the treads being superior. Sure, the leg movement was a little creepy at first and it has that annoying buzz, but after you see it get kicked and slip on the smalles possible patch of ice it just seems like an awkward puppy with respiratory issues.
As for the tank in the picture, i also thought biomechanical, because the front leg looks too curved to be a mechanized joint, and if the material attaching the foot to the body was some sort of hydraulic leg it would be an incredibly obvious weak spot.
Also, there's clearly a floating sphere, possible some sort of sentry turret or droid, traveling with the apparently alien soldiers and 'tank.' If they can make a floating sphere, they wouldn't have inferior locomotive technology on their tanks. Which begs the question, did they build the sphere, or did someone else? It does resemble the Traveler.