Iron Man's suit: Can we build it?
By Julia Keller | Tribune critic
Jet boots? Repulsor rays? Super-strong metal? Is it all just fiction? No.
Jet boots? Repulsor rays? Super-strong metal? Is it all just fiction? No.
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Iron Man
(Marvel / May 13, 2008)Constructing a superhero
So you're a genius, and you have all the dough in the world, plus lots of time on your hands. Using existing technology, could you cobble together an Iron Man suit like the one Tony Stark makes in the movie? James Kakalios, a University of Minnesota physics professor (who may or may not sport a secret identity of his own --we're really not at liberty to say), has given it some thought. We've distilled his opinions.
So you're a genius, and you have all the dough in the world, plus lots of time on your hands. Using existing technology, could you cobble together an Iron Man suit like the one Tony Stark makes in the movie? James Kakalios, a University of Minnesota physics professor (who may or may not sport a secret identity of his own --we're really not at liberty to say), has given it some thought. We've distilled his opinions.