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Written by Bret Devereaux on 2024-12-03 at 00:22

This week on the blog, armor!

We're discussing body armor in speculative fiction (mostly sci-fi, particular Dune and Mass Effect), both some of the problems with the way it is depicted and structured and also some the reasons I think those visual tropes exist.

https://acoup.blog/2024/11/29/collections-the-problem-with-sci-fi-body-armor/

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Written by Henry Cobb on 2024-12-03 at 00:57

@bretdevereaux Atreides are wearing bomb disposal suits for the initial inspection?

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Written by yllamana on 2024-12-03 at 01:19

@bretdevereaux The parts about the biomechanics of delivering contact energy were really interesting! I wonder how e.g. zerglings would act as an influence on armour design, being much lower to the ground and also much bitier. The biomechanics of the zergling

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Written by Infrapink (he/his/him) on 2024-12-03 at 02:18

@bretdevereaux It kind of sounds like Star Wars' stormtrooper armour is reasonable - it's made of rigid plates joined by flexible material at the joints.

Stargate is interesting about this. Jaffa armour is bulky and impractical... but the show explicitly acknowledges that Goa'uld equipment is inferior to that of Earth, as it is designed primarily for intimidation rather than killing.

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Written by Major Denis Bloodnok on 2024-12-04 at 13:04

@bretdevereaux I've been looking forward to this! (However, the shot with combat bagpipes is labelled in a way that is not how I normally arrange left and right...)

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