Iron Man
Iron Man, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, is the story of Tony Stark, a wealthy industrialist/arms dealer who, after a nasty accident, ends up using a fantastical metal suit to battle crime. But as a piece of Science, is it more like finding Gwyneth Paltrow as a PA, or like having the disembodied voice of Paul Bettany charting your every move
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Ion drives? It’s clearly called “proprietary repulsor ray technology”. I figure it’s a particle accelerator like the LHC only smaller, powered by the mysterious arc reactor - which can produce gigawatts, at least for brief periods. Maybe it taps into zero-point energy. This is fantasy, after all. Or maybe it fuses hydrogen from water. But it doesn’t have a huge magnetic field of it’s own. That rules out plasma containment, right? How much energy does a gram of hydrogen get you? Probably alot. Would Tony’s body miss a gram of water? Probably not. Even in the desert. And maybe Mark 1’s endurance limitation is heat, like my computer, not power or fuel. And Mark 2 is just better at it.
But imagine the tiny space mission with an arc reactor, proprietary repulsor ray technology and J.A.R.V.I.S. A rocket the size of a ten year old child flies to Mars, collects some samples like a first rate geologist, and returns with it to Earth. I can hardly wait. (I say this about the merger of Andromeda & the Milky way - I can hardly wait - meaning it ain’t gonna happen.)
The Mark 2 suit lets Tony zoom in on stuff. So he’s got some serious optics, not just eye slits.
What was with the external laptop booting up the Mark 1 suit? Was there also an onboard computer? Or was this just a visual movie thing?