Japanese Political Party to Hold Panel on Developing Real Gundam
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[QUOTE]The Liberal Democratic Party, a center-right faction in Japanese politics, will hold a live, 12-hour marathon stream on the niconico service on Thursday, and one of the marathon's panels will discuss "the Gundam Development Project, as seriously considered by the Liberal Democratic Party."
Masaaki Taira and Hideki Niwa, two members of Japan's House of Representatives, will speak during the 8:00 p.m. panel with their guest, novelist Harutoshi Fukui. Fukui happens to be the writer of the Mobile Suit Gundam UC novels (pictured below right).
Taira reported last year that his party would consider adding the efforts to realize "piloted, two-legged walking humanoid robots" into the party's platform manifesto. Taira also posted an extended discussion about the feasibility of piloted walking robots on Twitter, using the anime and manga titles Gundam, Appleseed, and Patlabor (pictured left) as examples. Taira broached the topic after meeting with Katsuya Kanaoka, a professor of robotics from Kyoto University.
In 2008, SciencePortal.jp, a website run by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), released a report estimating how much it would cost to build a 18-meter-tall (59-feet-tall), functioning "Morph-X" combat robot similar to those used in Gundam. The Japanese government funds about 90% of JST's budget, with the remaining coming from the agency's own operational income.
The Technical Research and Development Institute in Japan's Ministry of Defense included a ground equipment exhibit titled "Towards the Realization of Gundam (Advanced Personal Equipment System)" in a defense technology symposium in October of 2007. Earlier that very same month, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture reprimanded six of its employees for editing the Japanese Wikipedia encyclopedia article on Gundam during work hours; a spokesperson explained that the "Ministry of Agriculture is not in charge of Gundam."
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What the christ?
It's crazy, it's stupid, it's expensive...
But I fully approve this.
They don't have gundanium though.
GUN DAMN!
Only Japan.
You're not supposed to start with a gundam though. The Zaku is supposed to be the first mobile suit
Quick, NATO must develop working Mechwarriors in response.
I will chip in $5 for my Madcat MK2.
Sleek-ish and nimble-ish bipedal ninja mechs won't work out. Build hulking biped tanks with beefy machineguns instead. BF2142 did it right.
[QUOTE=Andokool12;36503434]I still don't get how Japan can party so hard[/QUOTE]
I don't know how we did it after WW2. We turned Japan from a militaristic nation into a technocrazy democracy that exports 75% of the worlds craziest shit ever.
While we're at it, start up on space colonization. We're almost 30 to 35 years off from the actual beginning of the Universal Century, might as well try to meet that.
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;36503460]I don't know how we did it after WW2. We turned Japan from a militaristic nation into a technocrazy democracy that exports 75% of the worlds craziest shit ever.[/QUOTE]
I think it might'ave had something to do with the atomic bombs.
Wait, scratch that, UC began in "2053, 2070, 2081, 2109, 2149, or possibly later".
[editline]26th June 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;36503513]I think it might'ave had something to do with the atomic bombs.[/QUOTE]
aaaaaaaaaaaa fuck my automerge
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;36503468]While we're at it, start up on space colonization. We're almost 30 to 35 years off from the actual beginning of the Universal Century, might as well try to meet that.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1167541]They're already on it.[/url]
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;36503460]I don't know how we did it after WW2. We turned Japan from a militaristic nation into a technocrazy democracy that exports 75% of the worlds craziest shit ever.[/QUOTE]
We cut down their military to nothing. But being a disciplined, energetic, competitive society they had to put that money and energy somewhere - into awesome things.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;36503563][url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1167541]They're already on it.[/url][/QUOTE]
Man, where would we be without the Japanese?
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;36503571]Man, where would we be without the Japanese?[/QUOTE]
A world to horrifying to even imagine.
[QUOTE=Webby2020;36503399]Quick, NATO must develop working Mechwarriors in response.
I will chip in $5 for my Madcat MK2.[/QUOTE]
We're gonna need to build Mackies first. Gotta walk before running, after all.
And its Battlemechs, not mechwarriors, you stravag.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;36503375]You're not supposed to start with a gundam though. The Zaku is supposed to be the first mobile suit[/QUOTE]
The Zaku is not the first, though I believe it was the first to be mass-produced.
[I]This[/I] is the first mobile suit: [IMG]http://images.wikia.com/gundam/images/2/2c/Zi-xa2.jpg[/IMG]
So how effective or efficient would something like this [b]actually[/b] be in a combat situation?
Where's GunFox when you need him...
They should make a VF-1 Valkyrie instead.
[QUOTE=Jeep-Eep;36503639]We're gonna need to build Mackies first. Gotta walk before running, after all.
And its Battlemechs, not mechwarriors, you stravag.[/QUOTE]
no no no no, we 'build' the pilots too. tank-grown and genetically tampered warriors are the latest best thing
at least according to clanner scum
Didn't the U.S. take away Japan's right to have a Military?
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36503779]So how effective or efficient would something like this [b]actually[/b] be in a combat situation?
Where's GunFox when you need him...[/QUOTE]
He already debunked bipedal mechs in a GD thread, stop ruining my dreams by inviting him here as well.
[QUOTE=SexualShark;36503864]Didn't the U.S. take away Japan's right to have a Military?[/QUOTE]
No, we shut down the military they had and took away their right to declare war, but they were allowed to establish a small "Self Defense Force" a few years later.
I really enjoy when FP gets into mech discussion mode.
[QUOTE=just-a-boy;36503449]Sleek-ish and nimble-ish bipedal ninja mechs won't work out. Build hulking biped tanks with beefy machineguns instead. BF2142 did it right.[/QUOTE]
Gundams are clunky as all hell compared to Code Geass's bullshit.
It looks like the sun will rise again.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;36503779]So how effective or efficient would something like this [b]actually[/b] be in a combat situation?
Where's GunFox when you need him...[/QUOTE]
I could imagine it being the middle ground for a tank and infantry (as long as the thing isn't as tall as a skyscraper.) It would allow for infantry support with heavy machine guns, rockets, and mobile cover for urban scenario's. So the mobility of infantry and the firepower of a tank.
well that's fucking stupid
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