AT-AT for America

[mmntech]

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NERDS OF AMERICA:
We were once a country that made things: giantmetal cars, Hoover Dams, non-AutoTuned popular music.


But now we are stuck in an economy in limbo, surrounded by our Internets, our hipsters and our arguing politicians.


Nerds, I have a great idea to make America great again. We can show our brain power, our manufacturing prowess, our organizational skills and our geek-fueled eye for detail.


That idea: an AT-AT for America.


Now I have an idea, but no money and a total lack of mechanical aptitude.


That’s why I am hoping this project spreads like wildfire, inspiring the nerds, makers, geeks, motorheads, sportos, dudes, steampunks, Jedis, halfwits, greasers and geniuses to band together for one goal.


To build a fully fuctional, full-scale model of an AT-AT Imperial Walker from The Empire Strikes Back.*


Impossible? Perhaps. Inspiring? Of course.


The AT-AT would become an instant monument of America’s obsession with popular culture and our ability to be awesome.


I’ve already shared this idea with some of the kings of geek/make culture. Adam Savage of Mythbusters, Mark F. of BoingBoing and Make Magazine and Ken Denmead of Geekdad.com.


Now the rest is up to you. Spread the word. Get organized. We can get this done.


If America can put a man on the Moon, we can bring a little bit of Hoth to the Earth.


To volunteer to help, email ATATforAmerica@hotmail.com
* - Yes, there’s a model at Disney’s Hollywood theme park. But it’s not fully functional and not nearly as cool as this one is going to be.

http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/

Yes, apparently this is real. They were featured on Attack of the Show recently. :thumbsup:

 

[PingSpike]

I like the AT-ST better, gets better gas mileage. But in the United States I realize the AT-AT will be more popular.

 

[GundamW]

:biggrin:

http://atatforamerica.tumblr.com/

Yes, apparently this is real. They were featured on Attack of the Show recently. :thumbsup:

That girl is annoying. Worse than Olivia Munn.

Wait. Do people really call AT-AT as "at at"? I always just call it A-T-A-T.
So what do people call AT-ST? "at sat"? "at sit"?

 

[ElFenix]

That girl is annoying. Worse than Olivia Munn.

Wait. Do people really call AT-AT as "at at"? I always just call it A-T-A-T.
So what do people call AT-ST? "at sat"? "at sit"?

"at at" and "A-T-S-T"

 

[ussfletcher]

First Detroit gets RoboCop, now the United States gets an AT-AT (hopefully).. whats next? A Dyson Sphere?, the Ring world from Halo?, Minas Tirith?, The Death Star? God I hope so.

P.S. Who wants to start working on a full size Enterprise-E?

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Star Wars fans are not nerds, they are people with horrible taste in movies.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Star Wars fans are not nerds, they are people with horrible taste in movies.

Only if they like the prequels.

 

[sdifox]

AT-AT is retarded...fucking Luke Skywalker before becoming full jedi took one out with a cable...

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Only if they like the prequels.

No I mean I have read advertisments in the back of Mad magazine with more substance than the abortion bukkake known as Star Wars.

 

[PingSpike]

AT-AT is retarded...fucking Luke Skywalker before becoming full jedi took one out with a cable...

I'm not enough of a SW nerd to know...but I assume AT-AT stands for all terrain armored transport. Apparently all terrain does not encompass a lightweight tow cable deployed from a ship with 1/100 the mass of transport vehicle in question.

 

[sdifox]

I'm not enough of a SW nerd to know...but I assume AT-AT stands for all terrain armored transport. Apparently all terrain does not encompass a lightweight tow cable deployed from a ship with 1/100 the mass of transport vehicle in question.

I have no idea what it stands for.
wiki says

All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_%28Star_Wars%29

SW is full of design flaws. Like seriously, you would build a vent straight into the core of death star???

 

[JTsyo]

When they say fully functional do they mean the weapons too?

The A-AT seems to be a pretty dumb design for an armored vehicle. If you wanted to build one it seems you just need to work out the legs and head and the rest would be empty space.

 

[MarkXIX]

I have no idea what it stands for.
wiki says

All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_(Star_Wars)

SW is full of design flaws. Like seriously, you would build a vent straight into the core of death star???

Have you ever built a "Death Star"? Maybe they needed the cold vacuum of space to cool the internal awesomeness.

 

[sdifox]

Have you ever built a "Death Star"? Maybe they needed the cold vacuum of space to cool the internal awesomeness.

and we can build vents that do not constitute a straight pipe that allows you to fire 2 torpedoes at the core. Hell, we can do that now.

Mandrel bent pipe.

 

[DrPizza]

AT-ATs?? Come on. So what. They walk around and go "pew pew pew," and if they fall down, they go boom.

You can bet that if one of these things came out of the ocean in Japan that they wouldn't have sought high ground and shot lots of videos... they'd have run for their lives screaming "Gahzirra!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXo8a-fHElo&t=0m55s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kbJ_Ljl6V0&t=30s

These things pick up cars, chew them in half, and breath fire. Go ahead and attach a couple things to the side that go "pew pew pew" and you've got the AT-AT beat by a mile. Plus, I don't think you're going to stop one of these things by wrapping a puny cable around it a couple of times.

 

[PingSpike]

I have no idea what it stands for.
wiki says

All Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_%28Star_Wars%29

SW is full of design flaws. Like seriously, you would build a vent straight into the core of death star???

More importantly, why did they not weld a grate onto the 2.0 model?

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

I love it. Decry the downfall of our empire, followed by "I have a great idea... but I'd like someone else to do it for me." Mwahahahahahhahaha

 

[PottedMeat]

AT-ATs suck! I bet bin Laden could take it out with a Cessna.

We need some World Devastators.

 

[Newbian]

How about we genetically engineer some Ewoks?

This way we can charge people to kill them and make billions.

 

[Gothgar]

That girl is annoying. Worse than Olivia Munn.

Wait. Do people really call AT-AT as "at at"? I always just call it A-T-A-T.
So what do people call AT-ST? "at sat"? "at sit"?

It is definitively a-t-a-t


Anyone who calls it anything else is fucking wrong for fucking ever

 

[Newbian]

It is definitively a-t-a-t


Anyone who calls it anything else is fucking wrong for fucking ever

It's AT-AT as that's how it's called in the star wars universe.

We need a poll going I guess for this and see if different calculators can come out with different answers.

 

[Ichinisan]

It is definitively a-t-a-t


Anyone who calls it anything else is fucking wrong for fucking ever

Don't they pronounce "at at" in the movie?

 

[Fritzo]

It is definitively a-t-a-t


Anyone who calls it anything else is fucking wrong for fucking ever

Nope, at the official Disney Star Wars expo, they were calling it an "ATAT"

 

[Numenorean]

Where are they going to get the lasers for it?

 

[SphinxnihpS]

It is definitively a-t-a-t


Anyone who calls it anything else is fucking wrong for fucking ever

For fucking ever and ever?