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The Exo-Trainer
Introducing the Exo-Trainer by Lucian. The actual unit you are looking at is one of several dozen that were originally designed and built by Lucian in the 1980’s as a means of countermeasure against micro-gravity induced musculo-skeletal atrophy for use aboard the (now non-existent) space station “Freedom” or on a manned trip to Mars. (The current space station replaced the “Freedom” design and is designated Space Station “Alpha” – but is also called the International Space Station or ISS).

The Exo-Trainer was designed to support and maintain physical performance in humans and is capable of training the entire body as a means of maintaining fitness, as well as, performing functional physical therapy and rehabilitation. The all-in-one exoskeletal design is based on the human endoskeletal system and is functionally derived from bio-locomotion dynamics. It can be used to maintain physical performance capabilities by utilizing specific force vector alignments of the limbs and the precise application of non-gravitationally-based loads on each of the primary and secondary kinematic joints in any combination.

By adjusting the load application and the motion control of the user’s limbs, the Exo-Trainer can be used to recreate the same force dynamics that the body uses to perform normal type exercises or activities. This versatility allows the unit to be used for flexibility training exercises and protocols as well as (separate) typical strength training exercises, aerobic exercises and even high output endurance training protocols. It was manufactured as a product for a short period of time and briefly appeared in the Sharper Image Catalog* (where it quickly sold to an untold number of professional athletes and Hollywood celebrities) and subsequently became the basis for numerous exoskeletal robot projects worldwide.

* Thanks to Howard for allowing me to use his unit as the basis for a new product design for the open market.

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The Problem

How do we provide broadband coverage for ALL of the rural U.S. population?

The Solution

Planet TV has the only realistic and affordable solution to provide EVERY rural resident in the country with wireless broadband. This plan is faster, cheaper and has a lower carbon footprint than any other cable, fiber or wireless idea. It is based on a civilian version of an AWACS plane and the old Stratovision concept from the late 1940’s.

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Welcome to Planet TV –
I’m Lucian.

I’ve been working on some very big and important stuff. For those of you who have read about me or have watched the show for some time, you know something about what I do. Basically, I solve problems… no… I’m not a hitman. The problems I solve are bigger than that. For the first time ever, I’m going to show you one of the problems I’ve been working on.

On 9/11 almost every communication system in Lower Manhattan failed. In fact, even the few government systems that continued to work, did not actually function as intended for complete emergency system command and control.

Three years later, hurricane Katrina showed that the emergency communication systems employed by government (as well as commercial systems) were still vulnerable to natural disasters.

As you are probably aware, analog television in the United States ended on June 12. As part of that transition, the FCC held out a large chunk of radio spectrum in the 700MHz band. This chunk of radio spectrum was intended to provide a nationwide emergency broadband service that included an emergency communication system that was impervious to natural or man-made disasters and that covered the entire country.

Ending last summer, the majority of the other spectrum was auctioned off by the FCC for use by telecommunication companies and others. However, the 700MHz emergency public services spectrum had a minimum bid of $1.3 billion dollars. Not one telecommunication company placed the bid… not one. This is because there is not a single commercial technology that is capable of providing a service impervious to natural or man-made disasters and is capable of covering every inch of the country. In fact, there is only one military technology that is capable of this feat. And that technology is the AWACS.

The AWACS is a system used by the United States military to provide battlefield and theater-wide communications. The system routes all communication through the airborne assets and uses no permanent ground based infrastructure. Hence the usefulness in battle – nothing that happens on the ground can disrupt communication. Therefore, command and control can be maintained.

Here’s my solution for the problem of a nationwide emergency communication network. I have the only FAA certified wireless mesh and emergency services communication system based on a civilian version of the military AWACS and including a new emergency services version of a military video communicator system that I designed.

My system uses long-range highly fuel efficient jets that fly at 45,000 feet and use the 700MHz spectrum to connect the personnel communicators with each other. This spectrum is the same as the high UHF channels which can reach deep into buildings, basements, valleys and even canyons. Best of all, this system is independent of anything on the ground or any other network. If the internet goes down, it does not affect our system. If the phone systems (cell or landline) go down, if the power is disrupted, if bombs are going off or planes are crashing down… our system is unaffected. Just like the military AWACS, our system sends and receives all communication through the private IP network riding on the wireless mesh covering the United States.

And this is not science fiction that I’m talking about. This system exists right now and has hundreds of hours of testing and performance data to prove it works. My system is cheaper, faster to deploy and environmentally less-intrusive than any other alternative. Plus, it has a lower carbon footprint for build-out, operation and maintenance than any other potential system that has been developed (or proposed) to address this capability. Most importantly, short of a nuke, my system cannot be taken offline by anything…

Here’s what’s happening now. The FCC is currently holding public hearings on what to do with the 700MHz public service spectrum. One of the ideas is to break the nationwide block up into different sections. If this spectrum is broken up, this is what will happen. There will be no incentive to cover the wilderness portions of the country. And there may be no incentive to cover the rural sections of the country (just as there has been no incentive to provide broadband service to most rural communities and wilderness areas. And even if other telecoms tried to cover these areas, they couldn’t do it without digging cable trenches, stringing wires or planting radio towers all over the countryside. And the cost of any other proposed system would start at about ten times the price of my system. Most importantly, these other plans will not have the video communicator system and the civilian AWACS that provides complete protection against failure from anything short of a nuke and covers the whole country from coast to coast – even in the middle of the wilderness. The likelihood is the big telecommunication companies will just try to put a private phone network over the system. That technology will not help the emergency services communication efforts. What is needed here is new technology and new ideas. That’s what I do.

My plan uses technology and systems that are capable of functioning during anything up to and including war – because they were designed from the same systems that we actually use during war. Nothing in the commercial market even comes close… And speaking of the commercial market. My system can also provide the first wireless broadband service that covers every square inch of the country – even while moving. Full broadband speed on any device anywhere. And I do mean anywhere. My service will provide the first high-speed data and communication link that will work in any location, regardless of how remote. And there’s a lot more that it can do.

I need your help. Please go to the site and sign the petition to demand that the FCC review this plan. Share this video and this story. You can also follow my attempts to reach the country’s billionaires and our political leaders as I put together this $15.0 billion project. So follow me on Twitter. And if you know any billionaires, tell them to drop me a note.

BTW, This project is much larger than I have been able to tell you about and includes a new and larger future for the Planet TV Station. Stay tuned for more.

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• Sept 9, 1947 – First documented Computer bug
• Harvard Mark II computer
• Star Trek is 42 today
• Three-pieces robotic musicians react to humans and plants
• Wired Magazine photo of robot by Nemo Gould
• Nemomatic robotic art by Nemo Gould
• The-secret-life-of-paper
• Thinkgeek.com retro handset with cord
• Thinkgeek.com retro handset cordless
• Goce_satellite will measure gravity and ocean temps
• Plastic-Logic-finally-ready-to-launch-flexible-e-newspaper
• Youtube – Plastic Logic Reader
• Large hadron collider has blackhole button
• Brian Cox on CERN LHC
• LHC will settle $100 bet between Stephen Hawking and Peter Higgs

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• 1965: Gemini V returns to Earth
• USSR detonates first nuclear bomb – RDS-1
• Hydrogen Bomb Explosion Video
• 2007 US Air Force nuclear weapons incident
• The Pit Stop – a new way to return from space
• Turning Roads into Solar Collectors
• Catalyst Mystery Unlocked
  
• Robots To Feel Heat And Pressure Thanks To E-Skin
• Robots more intelligent than humans in 40 years
  

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• Bigfoot discovery confirmed as fake
• Ever Cat Fuels develops new biodiesel process
• Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells
• CAPTCHAs work for digitizing old, damaged texts
• The Universal Packing List
• YouTube – Emile Cohl – Fantasmagorie 1908
• Fantasmagorie 2008 by Prof. Rastko Ciric
• YouTube – ETA by Junk

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• Repair of the sinkhole on my property
• August 15 – NY Times
• WOW signal – Wikipedia
• Great ‘Hello’ Mystery Is Solved
• The First Hello
• Today in Technology History – Aug 15
• Earliest Recordings ever made
• AMP Motorworks – Saturn Sky electric car
• Cost Analysis for converting Saturn Sky
• Where particles and physics collide
• YouTube – Large Hadron Rap

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• Opening Clip - YouTube – Star Wars Dance
• Ending Clip 1 – Dance Monkeys… Dance
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• YouTube – BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Design
• Science News / Footprints In The Ash
• Suprafroths: How Cappuccino Froth Is Like A Superconductor
• Mike Libby – Insect Lab
• NIST Chemists Get Scoop on Crude Oil from Pig Manure
• Visitors flocking to see unicorn deer
• Professor invents red hot chilli meter
• Retuning Bacteria with gene silencing
• YouTube – Robots with a mind of their own
• Curious quasiparticles baffle physicists
• Human egg makes accidental debut on camera
• Doctor: Internet Addiction Should Be Termed a Disease
• Animate Projects – Magnetic Movie
• Whatever Happened to Whatever Happened to the Bees?
• Organic Bees Surviving Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
• New super-paper is stronger than cast iron
• Antarctic iceberg that looks like a giant humbug
• Something’s Shaking in Antarctica
• Estrogen Applied To Human Penis Could Block Spread Of HIV
• YouTube – Sebastian’s Voodoo – 3d animation

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• YouTube – Travels With Our Cats: STS-124 Launch
• Quantum computing advance—diamonds are a qubit’s best friend
• Cane toads killing Australian crocs
• Brief, intense exercise benefits the heart
• New type of glass can re-grow bone
• Junk journey highlights ‘plastic soup’ of Pacific Ocean
• Plastic brain outsmarts experts
• zBoard : Way Basics – 99% recycled material 66% lighter than wood
• ENN: Galapagos eruption no threat to giant turtles
• YouTube – How to make popcorn with your cellphone
• A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab – teaching robofish to school
• Dancing microrobots waltz on a pin’s head
• New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases
• Nano-crystal coating increases LED output to 300 lumens per watt
• Mule Lighting – LED FLEX – Neon replacement
• Egypt uncovers ‘missing’ pyramid of a pharaoh
• Tutankhamun pharaoh was a red wine drinker
• Telltale DNA sucked out of household dust
• Could background radiation be hurting your health?
• Building a Baby Earth to Test Its Magnetic Field
• Stunning Photo – Dense Sun Rays at one region on river
• YouTube – Natural Decay (The Radioactivity Song)

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• Scientists heat matter to 10 million degrees Celsius
• Algae Startups at Crucial Moment in Algae Oil Refinement
• Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
• Cyber/Steampunk Futuresque Sci-Fi Hand Gun
• Hard Science Fiction: 10 Books that Prove Science Fiction Just Got Harder
• YouTube – Nascar Daytona 2008 Craftsman Robot Commercial
• Mitochondria and Aging – Interview Dr. Douglas Wallace
• One of last remaining ‘uncontacted’ tribes spotted in Brazil
• Where’s Waldo?  With the tribe in Brazil
• How to use Australian slang like a local
• Japanese woman caught living in man’s closet
• Heavy Welded Hinges – Hardware for your dungeon
• Why every Guy should by his girlfriend a Wii
• Nintendo Wii Girlfriend’s response to video
• Virtual Alcohol Control – ScienCentral
• Scientists create new nanotube structures
• Nanoparticles of a Different Stripe
• Lilium Urbanus
• Russia Opens Monument to Space Dog Laika
• The Legacy of U.S. Space Chimps
• YouTube – What we are

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• DNS trouble knocks NSA off Internet
• National Security Agency
• U.S. military had counterfeit computer gear, says FBI
• Amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius allowed to compete in Beijing
• Earth Set to Receive Alien Reply in 2015?
• TU Delft – Walking robots
• A Brief History of the Disposable Diaper
• Canadian student isolates microbe that eats plastic bags
• BioArts – plans to auction chance to clone 5 dogs for $100k
• SAAZS light prose – amazing lighted shelves
• Mojave Skies: Flight of the Rocket Racer!
• Ethanol, the ultimate home brew
• Finally, Some Good News about the Environment
• YouTube – Connie Talbot: Wonderful World
• 290 million-year-old fossil settles frog salamander debate
• Vandals damage Stonehenge
• BBQ Donut Pontoon Combines Rafting and Grilling
• Old Soviet TV Sets
• Huge hidden biomass lives deep beneath the oceans
• Google Trends: entropy actually decreasing – who knew?
• YouTube – Peas And Carrots

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