From Project Grizzly to The Trojan
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jack_babalonMeet Troy Hurtubise: Inventor, Conservationist and Cult Film star. We can think of him though as a blue collar, Canadian version of Iron Man (only if Iron Man battled bears instead of alcohol). Like all super heroes Troy has a "secret origin". According to 'The Demon-Powered Blood Oracle of the Internets' aka "The Wikipedia":
"Hurtubise's obsession with bears began on August 4, 1984, when he was 20 years old and survived a skirmish with a grizzly bear he refers to as "the Old Man", while hiking near Humidity Creek in central British Columbia.
The encounter had a profound effect on Hurtubise. Returning to his home province of Ontario, he decided to learn as much about grizzlies as he could. However, he realized that due to the bear's fierce nature, it is very difficult to get close enough to study them without physical danger, and he believed that drugging the animal would have its own undesirable consequences.
One day after enrolling in a college program (November 1987), Hurtubise experienced an epiphany while watching RoboCop in his college dorm, one which led to the Ursus series of protective suits. He decided to build a research suit that would be strong enough to survive a close encounter without harming the occupant."
Here is a popular clip of the testing of the Ursus Suit from the documentary Project Grizzly:
What a lot of people aren't aware of however, is that Troy doesn't just do 'Bear Suits' anymore. He also went on to become the proud inventor of Paste 1313, Fire Paste (a fire retardant that supposedly uses Diet Coke' and Kitty Litter as ingredients) along with Angel Light (a device that detects 'stealth technology', the schematics of which appeared to him in a series of three dreams).
Most recently though Troy has applied his knack for constructing light weight armor for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He has spent two years and $15,000 in the lab out back of his house in North Bay, designing and building a practical, lightweight and affordable shell to stave off bullets, explosives, knives and clubs. He calls it the Trojan and describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour."
Already, he says, the suit has stood up to bullets from high-powered weapons, including an elephant gun. The suit was empty during the ballistics tests, but he's more than ready to put it on and face live fire.
"I would do it in an instant," he said. "Bring it on."
~From Bullets to Bears
Inventor hopes to sell armour suit to the military
By Wade Hemsworth
The Hamilton Spectator
(Jan 11, 2007)
Here is a video preview of the Trojan:
I have to admit the Cod Piece Clock is fucking brilliant!
"I went back to my earlier designs. I did look at Star Wars. I looked at Halo (the video game) and then I talked to the professionals."
"Hurtubise's obsession with bears began on August 4, 1984, when he was 20 years old and survived a skirmish with a grizzly bear he refers to as "the Old Man", while hiking near Humidity Creek in central British Columbia.
The encounter had a profound effect on Hurtubise. Returning to his home province of Ontario, he decided to learn as much about grizzlies as he could. However, he realized that due to the bear's fierce nature, it is very difficult to get close enough to study them without physical danger, and he believed that drugging the animal would have its own undesirable consequences.
One day after enrolling in a college program (November 1987), Hurtubise experienced an epiphany while watching RoboCop in his college dorm, one which led to the Ursus series of protective suits. He decided to build a research suit that would be strong enough to survive a close encounter without harming the occupant."
Here is a popular clip of the testing of the Ursus Suit from the documentary Project Grizzly:
What a lot of people aren't aware of however, is that Troy doesn't just do 'Bear Suits' anymore. He also went on to become the proud inventor of Paste 1313, Fire Paste (a fire retardant that supposedly uses Diet Coke' and Kitty Litter as ingredients) along with Angel Light (a device that detects 'stealth technology', the schematics of which appeared to him in a series of three dreams).
Most recently though Troy has applied his knack for constructing light weight armor for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He has spent two years and $15,000 in the lab out back of his house in North Bay, designing and building a practical, lightweight and affordable shell to stave off bullets, explosives, knives and clubs. He calls it the Trojan and describes it as the "first ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour."
Already, he says, the suit has stood up to bullets from high-powered weapons, including an elephant gun. The suit was empty during the ballistics tests, but he's more than ready to put it on and face live fire.
"I would do it in an instant," he said. "Bring it on."
~From Bullets to Bears
Inventor hopes to sell armour suit to the military
By Wade Hemsworth
The Hamilton Spectator
(Jan 11, 2007)
Here is a video preview of the Trojan:
I have to admit the Cod Piece Clock is fucking brilliant!
"I went back to my earlier designs. I did look at Star Wars. I looked at Halo (the video game) and then I talked to the professionals."
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on 2007-01-30 05:19 pm (UTC)This is all well and good -- but what if we actually NEED the bears' help to defeat the alien bug armies? Would they fight side-by-side with a weapon system honed to perfection in the Great Bear Wars?
~rl
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on 2007-01-30 05:32 pm (UTC)Even the most ardent anti-American is going to think twice about fucking with a country that's willing to use Cyberbears all willy-nilly.
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on 2007-01-30 05:47 pm (UTC)Cybears!