Name: The Military's Attempts to Make a Real Life Iron Man Suit
Uploaded: 2022-06-01T17:06:28.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Military's Attempts to Make a Real Life Iron Man Suit' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Military's Attempts to Make a Real Life Iron Man Suit' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-06-01. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience.
When I was working on the Iron Man project, it's uh...
What is the Iron Man project?
It was the Iron Man project.
What does that mean?
So we're trying to build the suit.
Really?
We've been working on it for a long time.
I didn't know about this.
I was on the beginning of the project.
It was called Carnivore at first and a few other names.
But in the beginning, it was only a small handful of us working on it.
What are they using to make the body suit out of?
It's changed so much right now that it's all kinds of materials.
I mean, titanium, carbon fiber, all the top stuff.
And is it supposed to be able to fly?
It's going to do a lot of stuff.
Does it have an exoskeleton so it's stronger?
It's exo, yeah.
It's much stronger.
You can carry, you know, a thousand pounds.
You can do a lot.
I've seen that stuff.
That stuff's wild.
We're getting there.
But if you think about that kind of a suit, that exoskeleton,
how are you going to move that exoskeleton to those people?
So if you had a squad, let's just say you had 12 dudes in those exoskeletons,
what airplane are you going to use?
What home views?
What vehicles?
How are you going to get these guys around?
What boats?
How heavy are those things?
It changes everything.
Right.
A thousand pounds.
Jesus Christ.
So you can only get like a couple of those on a plane.
Yeah, maybe four.
I don't know.
But that's one of the issues that we're running into is the fact that if we
start going this
direction, we start going exoskeletons, we have to change everything else.
That makes sense.
And when we were doing it, it was like the long pole and the tent for the, you
know,
and I was on these think tanks and I was always like the innovator.
I was a weird SEAL.
You already know that, I guess.
Well, I guess.
We'll never get to that part.
I was a techie part.
So I was very technical and I was working a lot of the national laboratories.
So all the places that we built, the, you know, Manhattan Project, we still
have all those
facilities all around.
And so we still use them and we work with them and we try to push the envelope
for military
and civilian use.
So there's a lot of things that I was part, you know, innovator, inventor of
stuff that's
gone to the civilian world.
And the Iron Man Project was really cool.
And what are they powering it with?
That's the problem was the long pole and a tent.
I kept talking to them and I was working with all the national labs, Pacific
Northwest and
all those guys.
And a nuclear battery was pretty much the only way you can go.
So it'd be that, it'd be a little battery about that big.
Bro.
I don't even like having a cell phone in my pocket.
But we've had those little nuclear batteries since the fifties.
So it's no big deal.
But those nuclear batteries, like how dangerous is it for a human being to be
around it?
How dangerous is it to be in the military?
That's true too.
We jump out of airplanes at 30,000 feet.
But if you, I would feel like if you wore that thing around, you got horrible
bone cancer.
Because of it.
Yeah.
You got lead shielding and a bunch of other shielding and stuff.
Is that what they would do?
But the thing is, there's so much power and there's so much everything else.
We were using the hypersonic flywheels and using all this other stuff.
We were trying to do energy storage in all kinds of different ways.
Is there a way to shield it so that a person can be in direct contact and not
receive?
Yeah.
You carried around in the suitcase.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
There's a couple of them.
Isn't it funny?
Like that's one of the things that we're scared of the most.
I have to be careful of some of the stuff I say.
Oh.
Are you saying stuff that you're not?
No, no.
You could edit it out if you're saying stuff that's classified.
No.
Iron Man is not classified anymore.
They've talked about it.
I think it's in Popular Mechanics now.
But I think some of the people that worked on it are still classified.
And some of the stuff they're doing now is probably classified.
But this is all data.
Is that a situation where as new technology comes out then they revise it?
Yeah.
Constantly.
So they're always working on it but it's not ready?
We're always working on it.
Right.
So it's usable, some of the pieces.
Like right now, I mean, my back is just toast.
Like all the SEAL Team guys, because we carry those large rucksacks and
constantly out there
jump, you know, free fall and jump and parachute and all that stuff.
Our backs are just toast.
So what we're trying to do is trying to get it just first as like load carrying.
And so they made it – and that was one of my biggest pushes in the beginning
of Iron Man
was I said we need to build everything as non-energy consumption.
Everything has to be, you know, pneumatic or springs or somehow using our body
to propel everything.
Because if this whole thing shuts down, the battery turns off, you have to
still be able to move a little bit at least.
Be able to get over from here to cover over there so you don't get – you
still have to be able to move it.
It's a thousand pounds.
How do you move that thing if there's no power?
Right.
How would you?
Is that possible?
That was – like where the direction I went in was the direction I didn't want
to go was you can't now.
You can't.
You're going to be stuck once it turns off.
So the power goes off and you're frozen there.
You're just – yeah.
Oh my God.
It's big.
Imagine if you were in the middle of some sort of an operation and there was a
solar flare.
Yeah.
And the solar flare nukes all the electricity.
Or EMP or something.
Yeah.
You're screwed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fuck.
Jesus Christ.
That's where we're going.
A thousand pounds though.
I mean, how the fuck could you move it?
How could you if you're stuck in a thousand pound robot?
You're done.
You're done.
That's what it looks like right now?
Yeah.
So these things are still tethered, a lot of those.
Okay.
So that is the exoskeleton goes down his legs and that's those things on his
legs?
Yeah.
But that's even a way newer.
That's CGI.
I don't know if that's a real one.
And so –
But it's pretty much like that.
It attaches here around your waist and it kind of works off your hips.
And then –
So this is one right here.
And so you see he's got this.
He's got it on his legs right there.
It goes down the sides.
Yeah.
So that's a regular one with no power.
So that's an unpowered one.
And how does that one –
So inside of these little things on his legs.
Uh-huh.
And up there on his waist.
It might be slightly powered.
But those things on his legs and they'll have up there will be like a piston.
Really?
And then that will be – as you're moving your leg, it all works off your own
kinetics.
You know, it's all off of my kinetics.
And it helps you move.
Yeah.
And it can carry large weights.
So you can go faster.
You can carry a lot more weight.
Why don't I have one of those in my life?
I need to buy one of those.
Paralyzed people, they've got –
They run up hills.
They work with paralyzed people?
Yeah, they have people that were paralyzed and they can attach all this stuff
to them.
And they can walk around and do it.
Wow.
So this one is powered.
And see the way he's got a thing on his heels like that?
Yeah.
That was a big thing because when you step, your feet pivot somewhat.
So you have to watch these things and where you put it and how it goes.
There's so much to this thing.
You would not believe it.
It's wild.
There's a lot of technology in that right there alone.
And so ultimately they want it where it covers your body like an Iron Man or is
that just –
It'll be a lot more.
That's the ultimate would be when you start putting armor and everything on it.
So you can see that guy right there.
What is that?
That's a little bit more.
Yo.
That's more like it.
And so that's all lightweight stuff.
It's Robocop shit.
Yeah.
That's wild.
And so that's the direction we're going in.
But you can see even that guy right there, he's going to have a hard time
getting in and out of vehicles and doing a lot of stuff.
Yeah, for sure.
So as you keep adding this stuff on there, we get bigger and bigger.
Look how big that guy is.
He'd have a real tough time getting inside of any vehicles.
Yeah.
He definitely is not driving anywhere.
So that's what – the pros and cons.
It's like, yeah, we have all this.
We have that.
But now we have to redo the vehicles.
We've got to do this.
There's a lot to it.
How –
Oh, that might be – if you look up Carnivore, it might show up the first one.
How far do you think they are from developing autonomous robots that replace
people anyway in these situations?
We already have them.
Think so?
With weapons?
The stuff I was working on 10 and 15, 20 years ago and how fast we were
advancing back then.
So I would walk into a place and it would be a chip manufacturer for us to do
our sneaky-peaky bugs and stuff.
And I would show them and say, hey, this is what we're working with right now.
And we would give them $3 million, make it half that size.
And it's all we would get to say, here's $3 million, half the size.
Really?
And then within six months, they'd give it to us, here, half the size.
And so when we were doing it – and for my budget, I think I had like $60
million.
So – and it's huge budgets when you get to the top levels of the seals.
And we really push it.
And we're constantly pushing these envelopes of technology.
And so you can kind of see like even when I was there, I know the sizes.
And I know that you can have a chip and you have a chip inside of a chip and a
chip and a chip and a chip.
So you have – you can go all these layers and all this stuff.
You start digging.
And then every time you have the chip, there's a lot of subroutines, subprograms
and everything else you can put into them.
There's – it's just mind-blowing how advanced we are.
Wow.
So if you – when you say, do we have autonomous right now?
We have airplanes, vehicles.
We have all of it already.
Wow.
You're really careful right now to go almost autonomous in warfare.
That's crazy.