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Riot Control Ray-Gun for Use in Iraq
team99parody writes "An 'Active Denial System' weapon that 'fires a 95GHz microwave beam at rioters to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five seconds'
is scheduled for service in Iraq in 2006
according to CNET and the print version of New Scientist. It was recently tested on people playing the part of rioters at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico where they asked the subjects to remove glass and contact lenses to protect their eyes. Hopefully real rioters will get the same courtesy. Police and the Marines are working on portable versions. Sandia Labs also has a nice writeup on this system with pictures of smaller versions of the weapon."
Wheres mine?
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--Kurt Vonnegut
Having one of these mounted on my car would help me with my daily commute.
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by tin foil?
I Wonder whether its usage can contribute to cancer down the track
... only if you use it to light your cigarette. =)
Luckily, the ray gun comes with warning label. "May cause cancer or even death." And the operator gets a radiation shield.
Why the heck are mods modding this flame-war up!?!
What could be more on-topic than a flame-war?
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
This will nicely wrap up our hearts-and-minds campaign.
Is this part of the battle for "winning hearts and minds"?
No, it's the battle for cooking them up with Worcestershire sauce.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. --Will
Given that the only depleted uranium rounds are only fired from 25, 105, and 120mm guns, if you got hit by one cancer ought to be the last thing on your mind. Personally, I'd be much more concerned with keeping myself in one piece, or barring that at least in as few as possible.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Amen, everyone properly inside the free speech cages will be shielded from the microwaves completely.
We(the Dutch) "stole" half of our country from the North Sea. Does that count? I guess the fish have an argument against us...
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Tinfoil. Tinfoil hat, dungarees, under your normal clothes. And you can carry tinfoil placards that reflect microwaves back to police.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
They tested a system to find out whether people were experiencing intolerable heat in New Mexico?
Surely in New Mexico, all you have to do is just stand in the sun?
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What does Dance Dance Revolution have to do within anything?
Radical Protestors: We want a complete replacement of the current system with something that has been shown to be a failure every other time it's been tried!
WG: Well, there's the other 99.4% of the population that does not want that.
RP: They are stupid, and unworthy of consideration. Give us our fucking free stuff!
WG: Well, we can't do that.
RP: NAZIS!
WG: Look, it's really not so bad as-
RP: FACISTS!
WG: Is there someone else there we can talk to?
RP: NO! We will now riot to prove our point!
WG: What piont is that?
RP: That for the most part we are immature motherfuckers who can't solve our personal problems, and so blame the world for everything.
WG: Ah. Hey, have you seen our new ray gun?
RP: Augh! It burns!
WG: Tee hee!
That's it, Citizen, you just earned yourself a trip to the Freedom Zone!
- chrish
Yes, yes he is. Have you seen how "fast" pot-heads move? It'd be like getting beaten up by Urkel.
- chrish
two parties: the party of Evil and the party of Stupidity.
And occasionally they get together and do something that's both Stupid and Evil. We call this bipartisainship.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
>they sometimes get it wrong leading to mutations
great - that would serve us right, have a bunch of angry, mutated Iraqis using their heat vision, super strength or invisibility against us!
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
How do you classify a riot that occurs because your favorite sports team won something? It's not as much "I'm protesting" as it is "I'm drunk".