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Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns
An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post is running a lengthy article today about Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems, an Indiana-based company that says its developed a nonlethal weapon that shoots lightning bolts. This article is an in-depth look at a company that's stirred up some controversy on Slashdot in the past. From the article: 'Lightning guns, heat rays, weapons that can make you hear the voice of God. This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit.'"
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now becoming not so unreal, apparently.
This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit.
Because we all know how effective giant lightning bolts are at seeking out a terrorist in a populated urban area...
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
id Software has done it again... bringing the gunz to the REAL front!
U.S.A! U.S.A!
When are we getting the sonic tanks from Dune? ;)
Sivaram Velauthapillai
Seeking the meaning of life... @slashdot of all places
I smell a new type of X-Games Competition.
weapons that can make you hear the voice of God
I demand to know who used this on our fearless leader, Mr. Bush.
The war on terror has now turned to Quake 3 deathmatch!!!!!!!!!!!
I was thinking about joining the army. I mean, its just like fps, but with better graphics. But what if I get lag out there??? I'm dead!!! I heard there isn't even respawn points in RL!" -fps-doug
I got nothin'
are the frickin' sharks?!
I can't believe it hasn't been said yet. Shame on you all. =) /obscure?
Embedded journalists have been trying to report that soldiers have been using IDDQD and IDKFA since April 2004, The Pentagon alleges that if the terrorists ever found out these codes it would "ruin the game", and has subsequently been stripping press reports of this information.
There is truth in humor.
Actually, it turns out that they are the same God, and all of those wars were mistakes. Sorry about that, folks.
"And for the last time, stop playing with yourself!" "It is God."
Months ago I was watching some show about nonlethal weapons inventors and I thought about how cool they were. Then I thought about the situations they'd be used in. Time and time again police and national guardsmen abuse nonlethal weapons all over the world to suppress peaceful demonstrations. In future protests, expect to see sonic weapons, foam, all sorts of things aimed at crowds.
Now where we do really need nonlethal weapons is in Iraq, where children under the age of fifteen commonly shoot at our guys there. Our guys have nothing else to defend themselves with but guns, and I've heard about how demoralizing it can be for our troops to be forced to kill children (let alone the moral issues, and the fact that we're creating new "insurgents" by killing family members). And it's not like our military does not have nonlethal weapons, it just won't arm our guys with them for the obvious lunkhead reasons.
Rest assured these high tech toys will not be used on armed combatants, but on peaceful protesters.
"... weapons that can make you hear the voice of God."
Hmm. I think entirely too many people hear the voice of god already. That's largely why we think we need weapons.
=brian
People advertise nonlethal weapons as safer, compared to lethal weapons.
no comment necessary...
None of these are real reasons.
The real reason, is that the US needs to modernize. We need to take our military to the Xtreme.
This is only one in a number of changes that was obviously necessary to convert our military from a well disciplined fighting force into an Xtreme force.
Here are some of the others:
-The US army is changing it's name to "Rmee Xtreme!"
-War on Terror renamed to "Ultra-mega xtreme terror elimitation"
-Soldiers must now practice one-liners to go along when throwing grenades.
-Army camo replaced with "Xtreme metallic green"
-Soldiers are issued new, cooler names upon enlistment. For example, "Joe Smith" would become "Goe sMitH Xtreme!"
-Grenades are now going to be called "Ultra Xtreme Blastilators"
-There will be a new branch of the military: "X-treme Fighting Ninja Monkies"
-Periods (.) will be replaced with exclaimation points (!) on all official documents.
And, of course, all the weaponry will be replaced with new, Xtreme! weaponry, such as the one listed here.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Said parking lot would also be self-lighting (at least for several years).
Time to burn some mod points. I wonder how low the liberal whiners here can mod me down.
S I G H.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben