Artificial muscles: is this the future of bodybuilding?

[hifrommike]

http://eap.jpl.nasa.gov/

This researcher has created machine-vs.-human arm wrestling demonstrations. The machine isn't all that strong yet, but it could be. What if muscles could be replaced & be 100 times stronger than human muscles?  Would that have any effect on weightlifting, powerlifting, bodybuilding, etc.? 

[affy]

no shit it would

[timfogarty]

it means that people would be very skinny yet very strong

[stanze]

the black market would be flooded with high grade synthetic oil - no more steroids needed

[nycbull]

I would take this with a grain of salt. Wait until our residence expert True Adonis can set it stragiht. He is on the cutting edge in new technologies for strength and growth. He must be involved in the research with this one, but I haven't heard anything yet, anyone?

[hifrommike]

It's not just the university researchers & NASA guys who are doing this research.  I've been reading about a lot of money being invested by the US military on the same stuff.  They want superstrong soldiers who aren't bulked up to be able to walk through walls & move tanks with their bare hands.  I suspect we're a lot closer to it than most people think.  & I have little doubt that they're experimenting with AAS as well.  After all, they're in the government; they don't have to obey the law.

[Bobby]

They have been watching the terminator movies too much

...what some of these 'scientists' fail to understand is that their advanced technolgy is eventually going to be used against them. Take the AK47 for example, it's the great soviet weapon that the afghans used to fight them with. Killed by your own gun...

[hifrommike]

A third-world enemy can pick up an AK-47, but he can't get artificial muscles implanted in him.  It would be too costly.  The only thing he could do is to brainwash one of the supersoldiers & have him kill his own. 

It has been said that what physics was to the 20th century (relativity, the A-bomb) is what biology will be to the 21st.  We'll see.