About Death Ray?

Missileer · July 21st, 2005

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8644374/

Jäger · July 21st, 2005

It's an interesting technilogie, but I think its a little bit heavy for the use against riots.

Damien435 · July 21st, 2005

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.

niva · July 22nd, 2005

It's a super cooker.

Galaxy · July 22nd, 2005

super radar .

Rabs · July 22nd, 2005

So i guess you'd rather see legions of riot police go to work with batons and rubber bullets?

Whispering Death · July 22nd, 2005

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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!?!"

Missileer · July 22nd, 2005

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.

chewie_nz · July 23rd, 2005

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

FutureDevilDog · July 23rd, 2005

That sounds a little wierd. Isn't something like that against the Geneva Convention?

July 21st, 2005	#1
Missileer	Death Ray? info 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. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8644374/ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill

July 21st, 2005	#2
Jäger	It's an interesting technilogie, but I think its a little bit heavy for the use against riots. \"I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.\" -- General George S. Patton

July 21st, 2005	#3
Damien435	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	#6
Rabs	So i guess you'd rather see legions of riot police go to work with batons and rubber bullets?

July 23rd, 2005	#9
chewie_nz	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	#10
FutureDevilDog	That sounds a little wierd. Isn't something like that against the Geneva Convention? /rant

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