Sweeping stun guns to target crowds

06-17-04, 19:40

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 96014

06-17-04, 21:07

Ahh, please sir may I have another?
Ahh, please sir may I have another?

kahlil · 06-17-04, 22:35

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This intense pulse - which is said not to harm the eyes - ionises the air, producing long, thread-like filaments of glowing plasma that can be sustained by repeating the pulse every few milliseconds<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>

Well, as long as i can still see afterwords, i guess it's ok.

Here's to hoping that they skip that part & go straight to the super-happy-anti-riot chemical spray of "A Brave New World".

pskovinsky · 06-18-04, 03:35

how can that possibly not harm the eyes?

UV = bad
lasers = bad

uv laser = not bad?

06-18-04, 09:41

Brian Wood of Amnesty International says the long-range stun guns could "inflict pain and other suffering on innocent bystanders".

However, if I had to choose incapacitating elctricity and a bullet, I'll take the shock. I'd also take it over a 12 gauge sized rubber pellet.

Here's to hoping that they skip that part & go straight to the super-happy-anti-riot chemical spray of "A Brave New World".

That's the thing, is this article opens up a lot of things - it's ionized gas taht carries an electrical charge, but if it's an ionized gas, that makes it a chemical or biological weapon, doesn't it? But I guess it's just the brown countries we don't want developing those. Anyway, I think they need to switch to sonic pulse weapons - knock people into next week with a soundwave.

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kahlil Mycophiliac Join Date: Oct 1971 Posts: 33	<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1>quote:</font> This intense pulse - which is said not to harm the eyes - ionises the air, producing long, thread-like filaments of glowing plasma that can be sustained by repeating the pulse every few milliseconds<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> Well, as long as i can still see afterwords, i guess it's ok. Here's to hoping that they skip that part & go straight to the super-happy-anti-riot chemical spray of "A Brave New World".

06-18-04, 09:41	#5 (permalink)
~taoist Guest Posts: n/a	Brian Wood of Amnesty International says the long-range stun guns could "inflict pain and other suffering on innocent bystanders". However, if I had to choose incapacitating elctricity and a bullet, I'll take the shock. I'd also take it over a 12 gauge sized rubber pellet. Here's to hoping that they skip that part & go straight to the super-happy-anti-riot chemical spray of "A Brave New World". That's the thing, is this article opens up a lot of things - it's ionized gas taht carries an electrical charge, but if it's an ionized gas, that makes it a chemical or biological weapon, doesn't it? But I guess it's just the brown countries we don't want developing those. Anyway, I think they need to switch to sonic pulse weapons - knock people into next week with a soundwave.