Is it possible to make iron man suit

In the films, Iron Man is often depicted flying horizontally, with all of his rockets pointing right behind him especially during the first Iron Man when he was soaring in a straight line over the Middle East. Because these types of scenes look so epic, we tend not to question them a trend many superhero movies rely on.

All of his rocket power is pointing backward, with nothing pointing downwards. It's one thing when he's flying straight up into the sky — then, it makes sense that all his rockets would be pointing behind him.

But in the films, when Tony is flying parallel to the ground, the need for horizontal lift seems to be pretty much ignored.

The pull of the seatbelt is a toned-down version of what Tony Stark should experience when he makes those hairpin turns in the sky in the Iron Man suit. It would be one thing if he was changing direction slowly, like a car on a roundabout, but the way Tony zips around is the equivalent of a speeding car coming to an almost instantaneous stop, then rocketing into reverse the next millisecond.

But if Iron Man had to turn on his blinkers and slowly arc to the left whenever he had to change directions in battle, the movies would move a lot slower— so artistic license does have its merits. The Iron Man suit would be impossible without the Arc Reactor.

This nifty little piece of technology enables Tony to store massive amounts of energy in a cylinder the size of a hockey puck so that he can power the suit without having to lug around large containers of fuel.

So, how does the Arc Reactor work? Well, the short answer is, no one really knows no, not even Elon Musk. But what we do know is that the waste heat generated by such a huge power source would kill whoever was wearing the suit. From thermonuclear astrophysics to perfectly-groomed facial hair, Tony Stark makes a lot of things look easier than they are.

Although most physicists only dream of creating a new element, Tony Stark managed to do it in his basement lab in Iron Man 2.

It could possibly be some type of cold fusion reaction, but again we have no clue how to even begin doing this in such a small size. We could almost exactly copy the original Mark 1 prototype armor from the comics right now today or in the next few years.

Stronger than a human, and it has heavier armor than a person could carry. The video below shows how the enhanced strength from the exoskeleton allows a soldier to lift pounds without any effort at all.

A soldier can also carry a much heavier pack and armor. Lastly, the suit reduces fatigue even for physical activities like pushups. The suit does all the work for him. A prototype design concept for the future development, that can also be seen in the background of the video above. It has less overall strength, but still reportedly allows a soldier to carry a lb load, and it seems they have working units that are untethered.

No word on how much of that lb load is currently being devoted to batteries though. While nothing like an Arc Reactor, they expect a tethered version that would walk alongside a vehicle that carries a generator for the suit in 3 to 5 years. This would mostly be used to lift heavy materials in and out of vehicles for deployed soldiers. This could be very useful in allowing a very small team to rearm a vehicle or chopper in the field and to allow a small team to quickly unload bulk supplies and move on out of harms way.

In 6 to 10 years, they expect to be able to power the suit with its own internal power supply. The most limiting factor is battery technology, but it is getting better. We would have trouble with finding a power source and would need to recharge frequently.

This is actually okay, because the Mark 1 had the exact same issue! The Mark 1 used "transistors" capacitors they meant possibly?

Unfortunately, it ran out of juice very often. Still, so far, so good. As I stated before, we can't have flight like the Iron Man from the movies, but the Mark 1 did not have that either.

Supposedly, it was able to make short jumps or bursts of flight using "compressed air. The military designed a series of "jump jets" or "rocket belts" that used a highly concentrated mix of hydrogen peroxide and a catalyzing agent to create jets of high intensity steam that can allow a person to fly mostly vertically, which is just what the Mark 1 did!

Some other models used liquid nitrogen instead. I also had a chapter on the programming language you need, which you get a glimpse at in Spider-Man: Homecoming. You see the programming language briefly on screen, which is the key towards programming the technology. I would love to put that all in, but something had to go. Also, the suit is a toilet.

Tony urinates in it in Iron Man 2. But then I refer to scientific research which is going on right now. The book is from the last five or six months, no older than that. Research moves on, things improve and change.

But it takes a bit longer for all the stuff to be implemented in an application which can be used and has an impact on society. So, when will I write a new book? But even then, I just watched Captain America: Civil War again and I saw some things I completely forgot about, and these could have been a whole chapter. You see the arc reactor in the Hulkbuster armor in Age of Ultron. You can see Tony adding to all that technology. He loses his voice assistant Jarvis in the creation of Vision, but then he turns to another voice assistant in Friday.

That voice assistance also evolves. Her language and accent is very Irish. She even uses Irish slang. In order to use things, we need to touch them. Even with the amount of voice control we have at our disposal now, the first Iron Man movie from shows how that could develop even further.

It provides a glimpse at the future and how technology could work for us. In addition it shows how we can train such technologies to work with us. And then Stark can deploy the suits as drones, lots of drones, using the house protocol in Iron Man 3. You have the Iron Legion from Age of Ultron , which are drones. Ultron himself is able to command drones. If you produce something like this, they all want to use it for defence. Particularly the companies, corporations and countries that are pursuing this.

The big countries who have the big budgets. For instance, the U. It was designed as an exoskeleton suit to be worn by soldiers during missions. However there is a fatal flaw with the technology. Or the TALOS suit, which cost millions of millions of dollars and never reached the capability they promised.

It was incorrectly promoted as the Iron Man suit, which set expectations way too high. The expectations placed on these projects are just immense, perhaps due to how we see exoskeletons in the films. It is not. Fundamentally the cost of building such technologies requires a huge investment with absolutely zero guarantee of a return on that investment. When NASA was founded in the late s, the agency scored numerous successes in the development of new propulsion technologies and in sending missions to space to explore the Earth, the Moon and further afield.

In some ways yes, there needs to be healthy competition in the development and innovation of any new technologies. I would hope that these motivations are fundamentally ethical.

Perhaps it will help to protect soldiers. It could be used to help in the rescue of people from warzones. It might also be a protective healthcare device that monitors the body of the wearer, and helps them. Astronauts wear suits in space. The primary aim of the suit is to keep them alive and protect them. The Iron Man suit — while Tony Stark uses it to fight bad guys and when he is in conflict — is also designed to keep the wearer alive.

I hope that any suit will be built in an ethical way, so my hope is that this will be built as a medical device. But then you have to manage, store, and protect any biometric data that is collected using the suit in the right manner. Who collects it?

How is it used? Or look at the voice assistant controls. The voice assistants used by Tony Stark are examples of very biased systems.

In the real world, voice assistants such as Siri or Alexa are trained by people with inherent biases. You need to make sure that any technology you develop includes contributions from scientists, engineers, designers, and importantly ethicists, throughout the process.

Tony Stark is not an ethicist — far from it. But he becomes more ethical, a little more forward-thinking about his suits. Therefore, the suits are biased in terms of their use. This indicates that by the time we reach Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark is building technology anyone from the Avengers anyway can wear.

In reality, for Steve Rogers or anyone else for that matter to use the suit they would have to train for hours in the laboratory with the technology. And then for anyone from any country to be able to use the suit, the voice assistant would have to be trained in multiple languages and have been trained with data from multinational backgrounds.

The aim should be a universal voice assistance that can adapt to slang from different cultures and countries. But do we need a generic, multinational voice assistant?