And when the levees break?

You'll have no place to stay?

Mama, you got to move?

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good.

Oh, we all know what the killer app is: the same one that vaulted the VCR and the internet to ubiquity.

But for VR, this app needs more than a pair of goggles...

I'll buy one after they work the kinks out and the prices come down.

I did my stint as an early adopter in the 90's. You younguns can pay the high prices to debug stuff that's rushed to market.

And with things like VR goggles, who knows what the kinks might be. (Anyone remember the Opti-grab?)

The "cover" or "skin" of the suit is also functional. As a systems engineer (for space-based sensors and cameras) I can think of a few requirements that need to be addressed right off the bat:

- Visible Contrast, so that the wearer can be detected/identified by humans, from a distance
- EM Reflectivity, so that the wearer can be detected/identified by active scan sensors (lidar/radar/whatever)
- Customization options, so that wearers can be distinguished from one another
- Glare reduction, so that the wearer's visibility isn't compromised under direct sunlight
- Thermal conductivity and albedo requirements, matched to the performance of the suit's internal thermal regulation
- Micrometeorite protection (probably addressed by deeper layers, but also a factor here)

And that's just from 2 minutes of brainstorming...

Of course, since this suit will never actually be used in space, the systems engineering process above can be abandoned in favor of public relations, which NASA spends a small but significant chunk of its budget on...

I like my peppers lip numbing, nose running hot, but there are two kinds of chili peppers... one burner and two burners.

One burners burn your mouth. Two burners burn your mouth and your bum. (In the immortal words of Cheech Marin, "C'mon, ICE CREAM!")

Plus, as I get older, I find that if the seeds aren't removed from the chilis before they're used in a recipe, I suffer severe intestinal distress before it even has a chance to reach the exit. Therefore I make my own salsa and pico de gallo, or stick to known "safe" labels. (Huy Fong Sriracha, fortunately, is OK.)

Now get off my lawn, and leave the sriracha.

But they're demonstrably not doing this.

They're buying ALPR systems that are specifically advertised with the capabilities to create and analyze databases of license plate numbers, places, times, etc. in order to track peoples' movements.

followed by a sonic boom

Giving up mod privileges in this thread to gift you this knowledge:

Deslide is your friend. The bookmarklet works great.

Deslided version of TFA (spoiler: you're not missing much).

50/60 Hz is pretty much DC anyway

LOL, clearly either a digital logic or RF engineer.

Tell ya what, if you're that confident, then take an aluminum crochet needle in each hand and jam them each in the +/– terminals of a 12 volt DC power supply, then in the line/neutral sockets of a variac output tuned down to 12V, and tell us again that 60 Hz is 'pretty much DC anyway.'

(Spoiler: one will be fatal and the other not.)

And then see if you can figure out why Westinghouse engineers chose the frequency at which electrical impulses best travel along human nerves as the standard power transmission frequency...

I got my chemical education in college.

I still see the trails sometimes...

Not contradictory at all.

You're conflating two layers of protocol: The encoding layer and the modulation scheme.

You meant that as a joke, but I've seen that happen...

That's a Ten-404, good buddy.

HAM sounds like the way to go, along with a Kickstarter campaign to raise any necessary funds for custom equipment.

How frequently will you get out of it the other 40% of the time?