Phasers set to stun

I wonder if any of my old colleagues from the Directed Energy Weapons branch at AFWL were involved in this? I'll bet they had fun making this thing.
 
gosh this brought back good memories. I was a Calvin & Hobbes fanatic as a youngster and remember the character "Spaceman Spiff" setting his death ray to Stun. found this site:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1961/ch_spiff.html
and laughed and laughed and laughed. Man this stuff was funny when I was a kid but now its hilarious!

EDIT: heh of course now the site is temporarily unavailable, probably cause I looked through all the Spaceman Spiff comics on there. Itll be back...
 
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And when it's not deployed, they run it up and down the interstates after ice storms and thaw them out.
 
Can they use it to blow up satellites and claim it's for peaceful purposes?
 
Henning said:
Hmmm, point it at an entire field of popcorn?
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Real Genius!
 
god that movie is hilarious.

Val Kilmer aka "Chris Knight" said:
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... Well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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:rofl:
 
Henning said:
I'm not entirely clear on the whole non lethal weapon thing. I guess you can fire and disable an entire crowd and then go in and shoot the combatants in an urban situation.
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Think about defending an embassy from an unruly mob. You want to stop them and make them disperse, not kill them. It doesn't look as if this weapon actually disables anyone. It's more as if it's an alternative to gas or something, but can be individually targetted.
 
lancefisher said:
I wonder how they got around the potential harm to the victim's eyes. Maybe there are certain wavelengths that don't cause retinal damage.
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I could be wrong, but I didn't think mm (millimeter) waves caused retinal damage. Are you perhaps thinking UV (ultraviolet)?
 
Cap'n Jack said:
I could be wrong, but I didn't think mm (millimeter) waves caused retinal damage. Are you perhaps thinking UV (ultraviolet)?
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Working around radar tranceivers I've been cautioned to avoid eye exposure. It's in the service manuals for aircraft radars and some SHF transmitters I've seen as well.
 
lancefisher said:
Working around radar tranceivers I've been cautioned to avoid eye exposure. It's in the service manuals for aircraft radars and some SHF transmitters I've seen as well.
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Well- I guess there's something to it then.
 
lancefisher said:
Working around radar tranceivers I've been cautioned to avoid eye exposure. It's in the service manuals for aircraft radars and some SHF transmitters I've seen as well.
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as well as every ships radar manual, although they are 3 & 10 cm radars.
 
Henning said:
as well as every ships radar manual, although they are 3 & 10 cm radars.
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Perhaps when you get down to the millimeter range (which is practically infrared, the EM won't penetrate or harm eyes. Seems funny that it will penetrate clothing though.

BTW, does anyone else see the potential for some of the "unruly crowd" being dispersed to have some shiny parabolic dishes to "return fire" with? It also seems likely that wearing a thin layer of highly conductive fabric would "foil" such a weapon.
 
lancefisher said:
It also seems likely that wearing a thin layer of highly conductive fabric would "foil" such a weapon.
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So all those crazies that wear tin foil hats to prevent government waves from entering their heads aren't far from the mark. :D

Although these MIT students proved the tin foil hats may actually intensify the effect.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
 
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