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Postby Scott McCrea » Mar 4, 2006 9:36 am

Tired of carrying your own pack? Got lots of photo or video equipment to get in the cave? Try one of these: LINK :kewl:

*27mb WMV video can be seen at this link. It will make you laugh!
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Postby Ralph E. Powers » Mar 4, 2006 9:49 pm

I'd really like to see this sucker go up the stuff that we Utah cavers have to hike up to get to our favorite caves... heh...
88 pounds? Geez...
Silliest damn contraption I've ever seen.. but wait... what's that music?

Terminator theme... self guiding robot that carries a pair of 30 caliber machine guns on each side... to go into hazardous places and shoot-em up terrorist without any casualities on our side.

Probably can get in without a problem.. the enemy will be laughing their collective arses off.

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Postby Cheryl Jones » Mar 5, 2006 1:10 pm

It is such a noisy contraption, the enemy would hear them coming a mile off. Can you imagine the sound of a group of them approaching? But then maybe the enemy would look up expecting aircraft....!

I think that the way the critter stepped to maintain its balance was pretty cool.

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Postby Hatch » Mar 5, 2006 11:21 pm

I wonder if what I felt when I watched this video was the same as my great-grandparents felt when they saw their first automobile?
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Postby BenC » Mar 6, 2006 9:59 am

Well I'm sure they will put a muffler on it ( I hope ), but honestly if it's entire pupose is only to carry equipment a real mule will cost 1/100th, 1/1000th of the price of this thing. Looks cool though.
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Postby Realms » Mar 6, 2006 10:24 pm

im surprised they didn't go with a hexpod design.
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