“Atomic Batteries to power. Turbines to speed.”
19 Jun 2005
The Excellent Rolling Stone Batmobile Feature!
A reader emails:
The new Hummer? If the Hummer looked like Batmobile, the Army would not have a problem getting recruits.
The scan at Superhero Hype indicates that four Batmobiles were built for the movie, each costing $1.7 million.
The wag in me wants to ask “How many homeless people could have been fed for $6.8 million?”, but I’ll restrain myself.
UPDATE: While the Batmobile carries atomic batteries, the Bat Cave is powered by a full-size atomic pile:
(Click for better Bat-look)
Note the safety sign. The Bat Cave is fully OSHA-compliant.
June 19th, 2005 at 5:48 pm
Kinda looks like the last one in this thread (UDLPs ITV for the USMC): http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=211833&messageid=1118316444&lp=1118666385
June 19th, 2005 at 6:09 pm
Atomic Batteries? I still haven’t gotten to see the movie yet, but there is in advanced stages of development ‘Betavoltaic’ baterries: http://www.physorg.com/news4081.html our future will be glowing!
June 19th, 2005 at 8:19 pm
The ADI Bushmaster http://www.adi-limited.com/pdfs/bushmaster.pdf Looks like a promising vehicle. Not as a front line combat vehicle, but it would make an excellent an excellent combat specialist vehicle: medical vehicle, command & control, supply vehicle. Act as a second line armored transport for support troops.
June 20th, 2005 at 10:52 am
Don’t worry about the Atomic Pile–the ‘Safety Lock’ is ‘Set’
June 20th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
Was the batmobile armed with bat bombs, to be launched in artillery shells? If not, it should have been. ;-)
June 20th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Makrothumeo: whew! I had missed that. What a relief.
June 20th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Murdoc–Are you going all soft on me? You’d rather that $6.8 million were just given away to feed people for nothing instead of used to pay suppliers, craftsmen, designers, etc. for actual work? Their families have to eat too, ya know!
June 22nd, 2005 at 10:56 am
Oh, come on! You give troops a vehicle like that, put in a side-seat turret (like the strykers only with stabilization) mount a couple of javelin f&f anti-tank missles, and awaaaay we go. You want troops to be aggressive, you make them look and feel aggressive, their natural tendencies will do the rest. You put me and the boys in that baby, we’ll tear it up, I guarantee you.