DHS working on pocket puke-ray The US Department of Homeland Security is working on a torch-like "light-sabre" weapon, designed to leave aliens (illegal ones, that is) stumbling and puking helplessly. S&T Snapshots, an inhouse journal of the DHS Science and Technology arm, reports that the S&T Directorate's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) office …
I thought these were usually sound waves, but light?
I imagine the scene:
US Agent One: Quick, get the super duper, Hi tech, mega expensive light gun. And aim....Fire.
Agent two: It's having no effect Sir.
Agent One. God Damn, the guys wearing sun glasses, Noooooooo.
of course it wouldn't be that simple would it, I mean, they spent millions are DRM on CD's and that wasn't defated by Sticky tape or marker pens was it?
I know what's, erm, coming next...
A giant flying 'crowd control' robot that fires smaller dildo-robots to saturate a target area. The dildo robots go about pleasuring the target/s into submission, whilst being filmed by 'camera-crew' robots (which are also dispatched from the mothership).
Good news if you're a lass, not so good if you're a blokey... or a dog.
The dildo robots are of course linked by wi-fi so they don't all 'attack' the same target. That could be messy.
Will NOT make anything happen (bowel wise) to a human being. Mobile audio shows and big home entertainment shows regularly have displays where a wave from 2Hz to 20Hz is played through super big setups, just so you can see it move your hair and lift the skirts of women nearby. You don't really hear a noise, you "hear" the pressure from the soundwave and it's sort of like being deaf, but there's no real noise.
20Hz will not make you shit yourself. The aforementioned skirt lifting trick would be no where as cool if it did.
They'll have that eventually ala Transformers/Power Rangers style.
Also, bear in mind with the SR-71 Blackbird, they had a "mini" Blackbird attached to one as a development. Obviously a high mach speeds it detached and promptly nose-dived into the mother-plane, destroying them both. Guarantee they won't have learnt from that...
Yes, now the Federal Government has two new things to keep of out the hands of the citizenry:
1. Any weapon designed to induce physiological effects in the target by use of electromagnetic radiation.
2. Any lens designed to be placed in front of the eyes that negates the effectiveness of electromagnetic riot control devices while allowing visual perception.
technology has existed for a number of years in the form of a chamber which can be tuned to vibrate at the natural resonant frequency of a (human) occupant, in the 5 - 10Hz range. Think opera divas and champagne glasses. But there's also the story of New York cops looking for a reported earthquake and finding Tesla reading the newspaper while a little mechanical hammer tapped the building every few seconds...
I understand the UK sold at least one to Saudi Arabia. Reputed time to destruct is about 10 seconds - probably too quick to be useful as an instrument of torture.
Neither the "brown" (resonates the bowel, which loosens) nor the "white" note (resonates the stomach causing vomiting) is particularly useful in riot control as they are not directable: sound bends round obstacles. OK, so these frequencies are low enough that they won't bend quickly, so the man with the weapon might be in the dead spot, but what about his colleagues? What about hostages and bystanders?
Yeuch -- not nice.
"technology has existed for a number of years in the form of a chamber which can be tuned to vibrate at the natural resonant frequency of a (human) occupant, in the 5 - 10Hz range. [ ... ] I understand the UK sold at least one to Saudi Arabia. Reputed time to destruct is about 10 seconds "
I call bullshit on this entire post. The "brown note" doesn't exist or work, and the whole idea's bloody stupid. If you're just going to kill someone, shoot them. Bullets are trivially cheap. Loading them into a chamber and blasting them with soundwaves? What could possibly be the advantage that would make it worth the trouble and expense? Not to mention the far messier and timeconsuming clean-up job afterward.
If this isn't complete bullshit, you would have been able to name the manufacturer and model of this supposed techno-iron-maiden. You can't, because it doesn't exist. You made the whole thing up. You "understand" that one was sold to Saudi? How do you "understand" it? Read it somewhere, someone told you? Or did you just make it up in your delusional imagination?
PPOSTFU.
At BR Advanced Projects in the 70's there was a pressure chamber in which volunteers were subjected to a variety of pressure pulses to simulate the effects of high speed trains passing bridges and through tunnels. It was a plexiglass two seat box with a diaphagm on top driven by an electro hydraulic actuator. To my knowledge noboby puked or crapped despite the low and medium frequencies of the pulses.
Urban legend tells of an MTS sales rep. who was injured by sitting in a chair driven at 8Hz which caused resonance of his innards.
Every border crossing kit will now contain Gravol.
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