Wasn't the main idea behind power armor/exoskeletons less about providing protection and more about increasing the range and amount of gear of regular infantry?

>>626920

Sounds horrendously expensive, complex and research intensive, so Lockheed already has the patents and invested +100M USD of taxpayers money into development.

>>626973

The Marines' knees will destroy themselves even slower, so you have to compensate.

>>627209

Nah. Fully growing a modified human would be too expensive and time consuming for a military to bother. Remember that the military considers anyone anyone with an IQ less than 84 unfit to do any sort of job. IQ is correlated positively with education, meaning that you'll need a school for the little mega niggas so that they can become effective, fully grown giga niggas. Never mind the associated costs of feeding someone way heavier than a regular human being for several years.

In the end you get a soldier that, while stronger and more resilient than the average human, is way more costly than your typical rifleman or even SEAL.

I say we just make bio-mechanical exoskeletons. Something like a Gecko crossed with the unused Combine Elite concept.

>>629812

>You're born with a preset IQ amount and it can only get degraded, never upgraded

I don't think that is true. I think it's just way easier to lower your IQ rather than raise it.

At an early age, your neurons are making connections between themselves in order to build a functioning neural network. If this isn't encouraged, you'll end up with a brain with a less capable processing power and thus, a less intelligent individual.

I'm not saying that everyone is born equally intelligent, mind you. Since intelligence is based on neural interconnectedness, genes that affect this on a molecular level will probably make differing tiers of intelligence.

I could be wrong though.