US Developing New Pain Pulse Weapon For Crowd Control
apologies its from the telegraph website | 04.03.2005 09:06 | G8 2005 | Repression | World
US developing 'pain from a distance' weapon
By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent
(Filed: 03/03/2005)
The US military is developing a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from afar to use against protesters and rioters.
The weapon produced 'pain and temporary paralysis' in animals
Documents released under the US Freedom of Information Act show that scientists have received funding to investigate how much pain can be induced in individuals hit by electromagnetic pulses created by lasers without killing them.
Due to be ready for use in 2007, the Pulsed Energy Projectile weapon is designed to trigger extreme pain from a distance of one-and-a-quarter miles.
It fires a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma - electrically charged gas - when it hits something solid. Tests on animals showed it produced "pain and temporary paralysis".
Pain researchers told today's New Scientist magazine that the technology could end up being used for torture and that it was unethical.
Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine in London, said: "I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research."
apologies its from the telegraph website
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give me a break!
04.03.2005 18:43
its this kind of *BULLSHIT* that gives people the impression that we scientists are elitist or something!
first point!!
"hit by electromagnetic pulses created by lasers"
why??!! WHY PRETEND YOUR FUCKING CLEVER?!!!!!! DICKHEAD!!! why not just say:
"hit by light from a laser"
WHAT FUCKING LASER SCIENTIST *ACTUALLY* USE THE WORD EM PULSE? the bloody electromagnetic spectrum covers all the way from below long-wave radio waves upto gamma radiation and beyond. NO *REAL* scientist is EVER going to be so vague as use the word EM pulse. LASERS OPERATE IN THE LIGHT PART OF THE SPECTRUM (infra-red to ultraviolet)
2) "Pulsed Energy Projectile"
WHAT??? WHY?? Who is this DICKHEAD!! FUCKING *MOST* LASER ARE PULSED!!!! read Svelto you dickhead or borrow my fucking copy!!! and jesus! your kind of pushing the limits of quatum wave/particle duality to imply that a laser pulse is a "projectile"?!! bullets are projectiles! light - in theory can be described, but almost always modelled as waves. but i guess "pulsed energy wave" doesn't have that shock and awe element.
3)"It fires a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma - electrically charged gas - when it hits something solid. "
KILL ME!!! OH *GOD* JUST *FUCKING* KILL ME!!!! JESUS FUCKING *CHRIST*!!!!! WHAT IS IT WITH YOU FUCKING ILLITERATE MORONS"!"!!!!! ALL THAT FUCKING BLOOBY MEANS IS THAT IS BURNS!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!! YES LASERS BURN YOUR SKIN!! my fucking 10W laser burns when i stick f'ing hand in the way!! Oh i guess i own a "projectile weapon"? Oh lucky me! How convienent!! does that make me a terrorist? i guess i'll try to take over the world with my "laser", i think i'll install it on the moon and get my self a furless cat!!! FUCKING IDIOTS!!!!! you can buy fucking 500W lasers (diode stacks actually, aweful beam quality, but good for pumping Nd:YVO4 or Nd:YLF).
To sum up that entire article: "aiming a high power laser can burn peoples skin".
OH MY GOD!!! RADICAL SCIENCE!!! (Ohhh everyone panic station!! run around and scream "the end is nigh!") do you want a fucking nobel prize for it?
sorry for the outlet, but i just *hate* it when fucking idiots (mainly journalists, the illiterate cocking-sucking-i-have-double-award-GCSE-science-so-i'm-an-expert!) try to distance people from the subject by using big fancy words like "plasma", why not just say "very hot gas"? why do these cock-sucking authoritarian journo try to make themselves out to be "experts" and pretend that science is too difficult for lame people to understand. science is the *easiest* thing in the world to understand! its just natural logic!! drop a ball it falls down - thats science! but if i said "a particle residing in 4 dimensional space undergoes transalation due to its unstable equilibrium with respect to the gravitational curvature of space-time. . ."!! erh? but that what these illiterate authoritarian journo muppets tell you. they themselves dont know jack-shit - they're STUPID, they want to be clever, they want to think that they're smarter than the average person! so it gives them *immense* pleasure to use big words/phrases and to make out that they're clever, and that your just a nobody and stupid because you dont know what those big fancy words mean.
to quote Einstein: "imagination is more important than knowledge"
if you can visualise stuff, you can do science. and it is, *that* easy.
the science-nazi
yeah yeah yeah
08.03.2005 10:04
Meanwhile, the issue - and a very important one - remains.
The us and allies are developing weapons to deny you and me our right to dissent.
The issues raised by this reply are disingenuous and outright stupid.
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