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July 21st, 2005   Post 1
Missileer
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Post; Death Ray?


Looks like they're going to field this thing after all. Remember the ray gun in alien movies that heated your weapon and made you drop it? Well 25 gigahertz of microwaves will do just that. In fact, it'll boil your eyeballs.

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July 21st, 2005   Post 2
Jäger
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It's an interesting technilogie, but I think its a little bit heavy for the use against riots.
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July 21st, 2005   Post 3
Damien435
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By rioters I assume they mean people who have engaged in looting, graffiti, and spontaneous acts of violence.

Having said that I am fine with this. Bean bags kill people, so do rubber bullets, those are currently being used by police forces, and when the police do not intervene deaths are more likely due to the stupidity of these people's actions. If one person dying means that in the end more people will be saved from killing themselves through drunken stupidity or overzealous religious fanatics whipping people into an uproar fine by me.
 
July 22nd, 2005   Post 4
niva
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July 22nd, 2005   Post 5
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super radar .
 
July 22nd, 2005   Post 6
Rabs
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So i guess you'd rather see legions of riot police go to work with batons and rubber bullets?
 
July 22nd, 2005   Post 7
Whispering Death
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rabs
So i guess you'd rather see legions of riot police go to work with batons and rubber bullets?
I would!

Am I the only one that watches the police beat the hell out of rioting hippies from the 60s and thinks to myself, "oooooh, why not me!?!"
 
July 22nd, 2005   Post 8
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My guys here have been replacing the head mirrors on the M1A1 tank Commander's Independant Thermal Viewer at $30,000.00 a pop. They are made from Germanium because infrared can't see through glass. The tank commanders said that the Iraqi kids are taking them out with slingshots. I would like to see a preemptive deterrent to the little buggers. This microwave weapon just may do the trick.
 
July 23rd, 2005   Post 9
chewie_nz
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so i was reading about this and the people who were used for testing had to remove glasses and contact lenses.

also metal and coinage from pocktes etc



what about the "rioters", do they get the chance to do the same? and what about people who (for whatever reason) can't get out of it's beam? what are the effects on them. to me this weapon sounds horrific
 
July 23rd, 2005   Post 10
FutureDevilDog
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That sounds a little wierd. Isn't something like that against the Geneva Convention?
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