[MLB-WIRELESS] Electric shock weapons could go wireless

[Toliman]

At 03:52 PM 14/08/2003, you wrote:
>So that story about WiFi spray we had before might have been true? hehehehe.
>
>Regards,
>Gaz.

As i see it, it's the Electrical version of the flame thrower. propellant 
or flammable material sprayed in aerosol or liquid form, then set alight. 
in this case, they just send enough voltage or static electricity to keep 
the aerosol in liquid/plasma form without vapourising into gases from the 
electricity/heat released. it's some kind of semi-conductive compound, 
would be good to see if it works as intended, or turns the subject into a 
sparkly firecracker.

either way, there's obvious allusions to "you don't know the power .. of 
the dark side ...", etc. again, it would be good to see it in action.

the other vapour technology i saw recently was fogscreen.com, projecting an 
image on a fog of vapour, maybe water vapour, not sure. I've seen that it 
has been done in sydney harbour, and the effect works well enough to 
project films onto a large "fine mist fountain" that emerges from a small 
cove area, where you watch it from the shoreline. but this is now an 
indoors technology that works quite well.

Yet another strange application of aerosols and good old 70''s/80's/90's 
"wacky ways to die" DoD research. it would not surprise me to see more of 
those greater "humane" applications come from weapons of mass destruction 
and general mayhem. my fave "spook tech" is still the use of VLF, and 
Microwave beams to incapacitate crowds and individuals, those "hearts" and 
"minds" out there who object to the common rule. of course, you just have 
to justify spending millions on finding/building/acquiring a microwave type 
device or laser that can heat the blood or a body over a specific area 
without any trace of the hundreds of suddenly crispy dead bodies nearby. or 
the electric bill required to power it. etc.

Toliman.

> > http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=99993749&sub=Sec
> > urity%20and%20Defence
> > "Pain and spasms"
> > The Plasma-Taser will not need any wires because it fires an aerosol spray
> > towards the target, which creates a conductive channel for a shock
> > current, claims Rheinmetall. The company refused to comment on exactly how
> > the weapon works, but it says the aerosol material is non-toxic.


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> >
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