Pentagon Scraps 'Lightsaber' Weapons Program After Gross Misconduct, Numerous Injuries

http://www.duffelblog.com ^ | 11/15/13 | Taylor Merrick

[Rebelbase]

The author served as an infantryman in Afghanistan.

[Rebelbase]

[jsanders2001]

I guess Yoda will have to show them how it’s done

[null and void]

Show them how it is done, I will, eerm...

[mkmensinger]

Controlled by the dark side they were.

[USNBandit]

I remember one time when my squadron CO handed out a box of Bench Made push button auto knives. Within minutes we had a pool going for who the first person would be to cut themselves. Everybody voted for the same guy so we shifted to a time to bleeding format. 10 minutes later said individual walked in looking for a bandaid, to find the pool written up on the white board.

[a fool in paradise]

Then there's that whole repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell thing...

[SkyDancer]

I’ve always wondered how the length of the light would just stop maybe three feet. OTOH, got caught thinking the story was true until near the end. Funny.

[KarlInOhio]

Could be worse. Imagine a bunch of ravers pumped up on ecstacy dancing with these instead of glow sticks.

[bigbob]

May the farts be with you!

[RandallFlagg]

I wonder if they used my idea.

All known matter is surrounded by a kind of cloud of electrons. Electrons are electrically neutral. This is why my fingers are able to push down on these keys as I type: Like charges repel each other.

What if, through some collossal blunder of physics, the atoms of my fingers were surrounded by a cloud of positively charged electrons (Called Positrons)? My fingers would then pass through the keyboard, causing a shearing effect that would seperate the matter at the atomic level, and damaging the keyboard and my fingers.

If a controllable beam of positrons were to be emitted in a preset area and stream, it would pass through all known forms of matter. In fact, the only thing that would halt such a shearing effect would be another beam of positrons.

We are already able to make electrons pretty much do what we want (stunguns, Tesla Coils, etc.). How difficult would it be to do the same with positrons?

As a lifesaving tool, it would effortlessly cut through steel, concrete and anything else the user wished. As a weapon, it would bore holes through armor thicker than anything currently known. Anything made of atoms would be influenced by a positron beam.

That's the theory. Putting it in a package the size of a chrome flashlight, however.....

Blast from the past.

[LucianOfSamasota]

These aren’t the marines you’re looking for...

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The only thing more devastating to morale would be lie detector glasses.

I guess the Air Force poked holes in the Men’s showers?

[RandallFlagg]

I’ve always wondered how the length of the light would just stop maybe three feet.

It would be an arc, not a straight beam. Coming out of the emitter in a loop, and back.

[Antihero101607]

The govt. pulls the plug on the creating one of the baddest ass fictional weapons of all time, but they give massive grants for the study of urine as it hits a toilet?

[KitJ]

Hokey religions and ancient magic are no match for a good blaster at your side!

(Han Shot First!)

[KC_Lion]

It is not as Clumsy or Random as a Blaster.

An elegant weapon from a more...civilized age.

[Rebelbase]

#17 and #18, Well done, both of you!

[sportutegrl]

After I had bought one of those new ceramic kitchen knives, it didn't take long before three family members, (myself included) had cut themselves.

When I told my mother about it, she asked, "so it's sharp?"

"Like a piece of glass" I replied.