--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pentagon shows off new ray gun > > "Washington- The US military has tested a heat ray gun that produces an > intolerable heating sensation on the skin designed to repel enemies or > disperse hostile crowds without using lethal force, the Pentagon said > Thursday. The device, called the Active Denial System, sits on top of a > military vehicle and unleashes an invisible beam at the speed of light > that penetrates the skin by less than a millimetre but enough to cause > pain sensors to react." > > More here: > http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Pentagon_shows_off_new_ray_gun_0125.html > > IOW, if some government or police idiot decides that your anti-war > protest is hostile they can fry your crowd with it. Far fetched, well > some of the police I've seen around here are more outfitted with > (unnecessary) weapons than troops in Iraq. You'd think the street war > was starting tomorrow and most of these folks probably have IQ's less > than 90. >
Actually, it's relatively benign, at least for most people. It's also incredibly easy to circumvent since it only stimulates nerve-endings 1/16" under ths skin. You know those tinfoil hats? A tinfoil body suit will stop this thing cold and so will any metalic-thread cloth, I'm betting (as long as it conducts electricity of course).
