From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Cyberware Power Sources
Date:	Sat, 9 May 1998 18:33:50 -0300

Wafflemeisters escreveu:
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> Actually, my feeling is that this is more what a cyberlimb actually is.
> Why use MOTORS, when you have artifical muscle and clonal technology.
> They are partly electronic (particularly the interface), for strength
> and ease of implmentation, and partly biological, for durability and
> relibility. Also, the anatomy might be NOTHING like human, as far as
> actual internal layout goes, requiring a "Interface" to interpret the
> nural signlsa going both ways (like rigging, the interface allows
> interptation and control of non-human sensations). The
> "cybertechnology" pictures kinda back me up here- I imagine all those
> little "musscle" looking bundles are actually MUSCLE, of some organic
> (probaly stronger than human- Insect, maybe <g>) variety, inside little
> life-support sheathes.
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I say a cyberlimb uses myomers, wich is, metallic fiber arranged in a
muscle-like fashion. When they receive a small current, they contract,
with
a lot more strenght than nomal muscle. A chemically activated material
could
also be used (acid enviroment= contractoin, basic one = relaxation),
probably for the "civilian" cyberlimbs, the ones wich don't accept
modifications.
The chemical stuff exists today, IIRC.

Ubiratan