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The Joe Rogan Experience when I was working on the Ironman project it's a fireman project it was the Iron Man project what is that so we're trying to build the suit really we've been working on it for a long time I didn't know I was not gonna be getting a 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 what are they using to make the body suit out of it's 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 Yeah and it's much stronger you can carry you know a thousand pounds yeah 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 those people so if you had a if you had a squad let's just say you had 12 dudes in those exoskeletons What airplane are you going to use what Humvees what vehicles how are you going to get these guys around what boats it changes everything right they're a thousand pounds yeah 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 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 to exoskeletons we have to change everything else that makes sense and when we were doing it it was like the long poles intent for the you know and I was on these think tanks and I was always like to innovator see I was a weird seal you already know that I guess well I guess we get to that part how was the tacky part so I was very technical and I was working a lot of the uh 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 if 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 uh the Iron Man project was a really cool and what are they powering it with that's the problem was that I'm pulling
a tent I kept talking to him and I was working with all the National Labs specific Northwest and all those guys and uh nuclear battery was pretty much the only way you can go so it would be that it'd be a little battery about that big we've already had a cell phone in my pocket but we've had those little nuclear battery since the 50s so it's no big deal but those nuclear batteries like how dangerous it for a human being to be around it how dangerous it is to be in a military that's true too we jump on an airplane to 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 Shield thinking about other shielding yeah but the thing is there's so much power and there's so much everything else we were using the uh Hypersonic flywheels and using all this other stuff we're 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 be carried around in a suitcase really yeah yeah Jesus Christ yeah there's a couple of them isn't it funny like that's the one of the things that we're scared of the most I have to be careful some of the stuff I say I'm like I'm constantly going are you saying stuff that you know you could not edit it out you're saying no there's classic Iron Man is not class anymore they've talked about I think it's in Popular Mechanics now so 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 so this is all that all data is that a situation where as new technology comes out then they revise it yeah until they so they're always working on it but it's not always working on it so it's it's 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 in Parachute and all that stuff our backs are just toast so what we're trying to do is trying to get it just first is like load carrying and so they made it try 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 uh 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 to be able to get off it from here to cover over there so you don't get you still have to be able to move it so it's a thousand pounds how do you move that thing right which has no power how would you is it possible that was like where the direction they went in was the direction I didn't want to go was you can't now you can't it's you're gonna be stuck so the power goes off you're Frozen there you're just yeah you're almost it's big as if you're 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 something yeah you're screwed yeah yeah [ __ ] I mean how the [ __ ] could you move it how could you if you're stuck in a thousand pound robots you're done that's what it looks like right now yeah so these things are still tethered a lot of those so okay so that is um that's the exoskeleton goes down his legs and that's those things on his legs yeah but that's that's even a way no that's CGI I don't know if that's a real one and so but it's pretty much like that and it attaches here around your waist and it kind of works off your hips and then uh so this is one right here and so you see he's got this so he's got his down the sides yeah that's that's a that's a regular one with no power so that's an unpowered one and how does that use those little things on his legs and up around his waist it might be slightly powered but those things on his legs I know I 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 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 one of those paralyzed people they run up hills they work with paralyzed people they have people that were paralyzed and they can attach all this stuff to them and they can walk around and do it so this one is powered and see what 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 where you put it and how it goes like 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 whatever is that just that's the ultimate would be when you start putting armor and everything on it that's a little bit more yeah and so that's all lightweight style hobo cops yeah that's wild that's why it's a direction we're going in but you can see even that guy right there he's gonna have a hard time getting out of vehicles and doing a lot of stuff so as you keep adding stuff on there right we get bigger bigger look how big that guy is he'd have a real tough time getting inside of any Vehicles yeah and he definitely is not driving anywhere so that's 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 got to do this there's a lot too how in oh that might be if you look up carnivore the first one how far do you think they are from developing autonomous robots that replace people anyway in these situations I think so with weapons because the stuff I was working on 10 and 15 20 years ago and how fast we're advancing back then so I would I would walk into a place in a via VIA chip manufacturer for us to do our sneaky peaky bugs and stuff and I would show them I say hey this is what we're working with right now and if we would give them three million bucks make it half that size and it's all weird you have to say here's three million half the size really and then within six months I'd give it to us here half the size and so when we're doing it and for my budget I think I had like 60 million dollars so and it's we it's huge budgets when you get to 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 like 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 all the stuff you start digging
and then every time you have the chip there's a lot of subroutine sub programs and everything else you can put into them there's it's just mind-blowing how advanced we are so if you when you say do we have autonomous right now we have airplanes Vehicles we have all of it already we're fully capable right now to go almost autonomous and it's crazy