The technology that our group chose to research was the Tony Stark/Iron Man Suit. After much consideration, extensive research and thorough group discussions, Kevin, Christian and I have come to the conclusion that the construction of the iron man suit is just not feasible. Although there are several articles on the web saying that the U.S. army is making an iron man suit, or students at MIT have made an exoskeleton that is similar to the iron man suit, the technology that is used to create the real iron man suit is just too advanced/unrealistic.
According to Wikipedia, Starks “standard armor suit consists of approximately two million grain-of-sand-sized discrete units, which are shaped to have as large a surface as possible to optimize their effectiveness... Each cell is constructed by using specialized bacteria — the bacteria consume minute amounts of specific metals, arrange themselves on pre-tagged areas on the "chip wafer", then die, leaving a very small amount of iron, or gold, or gallium-arsenide. This method allows great precision in determining the thickness of circuitry”. Some aspects of the iron man suit are feasible, but the fact that it is made up of millions of small cells, which themselves are made up of bacteria which consume metal is enough to make me believe that the real iron man suit is simple impossible to build.
What we have done as a group:
The first post was by Christian, he did some standard research on the suit as well as its feasibility, then wrote up his opinion on the suit. The second post was by Kevin, he did a little more research and looked in detail at some of the actual technology used by the suit. The last post was by me, Zack. Just like Christian and Kevin I did research regarding the technology of the suit as well as its feasibility. I also looked at several articles about different organizations making iron-man-like suits and compared their ideas and concepts to those of the actual suit.
In conclusion, the iron man suit may seem like a very feasible concept, but its unrealistic technology makes it impossible to create.
Ethics: Although we deemed the iron man suit not feasible, if it were possible to be made, there would be two main ethical issues involved with it. The first and most obvious is that the individual wearing the suit would have too much power. They would have access to flight, and military power far greater than that of any other individual. Put into the wrong hands, the suit could wreak havoc through out the world. The only other ethical issue I could think of is that of the environment. Rocket ships that NASA has sent into space use incredible amounts of fuel which is burned. The gasses from those rockets contribute greatly to global warming and the greenhouse effect. The iron man suit is basically a small, controllable rocket. Therefore it would require the use of tons of fuel which, just like a rocket ship's, is burned and enters the atmosphere contributing to global warming.
Ethics: Although we deemed the iron man suit not feasible, if it were possible to be made, there would be two main ethical issues involved with it. The first and most obvious is that the individual wearing the suit would have too much power. They would have access to flight, and military power far greater than that of any other individual. Put into the wrong hands, the suit could wreak havoc through out the world. The only other ethical issue I could think of is that of the environment. Rocket ships that NASA has sent into space use incredible amounts of fuel which is burned. The gasses from those rockets contribute greatly to global warming and the greenhouse effect. The iron man suit is basically a small, controllable rocket. Therefore it would require the use of tons of fuel which, just like a rocket ship's, is burned and enters the atmosphere contributing to global warming.
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"Iron Man's Armor." Wikipedia.
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Lallanilla, Marc. "'Iron Man'
Suit Under Development by US Army." LiveScience.com. LiveScience,
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