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Scientists Slam US Plasma Weapon
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| 03/03/2005
| Lester Haines
Posted on 03/03/2005 11:09:09 PM PST by NationSoConceived
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To: NationSoConceived
Actually, this gadget sounds like one of the Goa'uld Staff Weapons from "Stargate SG-1." Maybe the technology was leaked out of Cheyenne Mountain........
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:35:55 AM PST
by
G-Bear
(My liver is EVIL, and I must PUNISH it!)
To: NationSoConceived
If it is possible, it WILL be invented. The only questions become, who owns 'em and how are they used.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:38:10 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: NationSoConceived
I like the idea of avoiding killing people who very much need to be incapacitated, but is it going to make life easier or harder for soldiers? One extra decision: shoot to kill or shoot to disable? It depends on whether or not there's information to be obtained from the target.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:38:49 AM PST
by
airborne
(Dear Lord, please be with my family in Iraq. Keep them close to You and safely in Your arms.)
To: ConservativeMind
I accept that this seems an ominous direction to take.You do realize that this means revolution to overthrow a domestic tyranny will now be impossible.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:39:22 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Posting Without Reading the Article Since 1999!)
To: NationSoConceived
Andrew Rice seems to have been the first target...;-)
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:40:59 AM PST
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: NationSoConceived
I think disabling your enemy is more destructive to the other side. They then have to have a person or 2 take care of them, and the physical pain displayed also demoralizes them.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:42:44 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(this space for rent)
To: GeronL
Big Brother believes he can be better in battle if he had a bigger, bolder beeber.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:43:31 AM PST
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: Harpo Speaks
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:44:48 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
To: NationSoConceived
"Even if the use of temporary severe pain can be justified as a restraining measure, which I do not believe it can, the long-term physical and psychological effects are unknown."
Oh well.
Guess we'll just have to shoot them after all.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:45:42 AM PST
by
norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)
To: NationSoConceived
device "fires a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid" B.S. Plasma would boil a human alive, not merely cause pain.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:46:06 AM PST
by
Sloth
(I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
To: Hunble
New Scientist is a VERY left-wing science journal. The Register is a VERY left-wing IT website. No surprises here.
To: NationSoConceived
According to John Wood of University College London, an expert in how the brain perceives pain, both Richardson and Cooper and all those working on the PEP research project should face censure because any weapon resulting from the programme "could be used for torture".
I thought any weapon by definition could already be used for torture. No one looks at a carrot and thinks 'torture'. Well, okay, I guess it is possible to look at a carrot and think 'torture'.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:49:03 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: NationSoConceived
If we tell these scientist that we accept their moral superiority will they shut up and go away?
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:53:11 AM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: ZeitgeistSurfer
New Scientist is a VERY left-wing science journal. Extremely left wing. An issue from a few months ago actually had a glowing article praising the daughter of Che Guevara, who is 'also' a Medical Doctor in Cuba.
BARF!
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:54:27 AM PST
by
Bon mots
To: Sloth
"
B.S. Plasma would boil a human alive, not merely cause pain."
Well, the pain WOULD only be TEMPORARY...
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:55:57 AM PST
by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: NationSoConceived
I suppose that the non lethal pepper spray cartridge which the Boston Police used to (accidently) kill a young co-ed after a Red Sox victory in October would be a better alternative.
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:57:51 AM PST
by
Radix
(The next time that I find a good Tag Line, I'll be sure to post it here.)
To: G-Bear; All
Sounds like the Zat Gun.. 1st shot your are paralyzed, 2nd shot you are dead, 3rd shot you are vaporized...
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posted on
03/04/2005 5:58:57 AM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: aruanan
"could be used for torture".
So can Barbara Striesand and John Tesh recordings.....what's your point?
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posted on
03/04/2005 6:08:34 AM PST
by
Bogtrotter52
(Singin' the blues with a smarmy Irish smile)
To: azhenfud
"B.S. Plasma would boil a human alive, not merely cause pain."
Stick a fork in 'em, he's done
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posted on
03/04/2005 6:10:25 AM PST
by
Bogtrotter52
(Singin' the blues with a smarmy Irish smile)
To: Bogtrotter52
So can Barbara Striesand and John Tesh recordings.....what's your point?
That the critics' charge that since the weapon could be used for torture meant there was no ethical basis for it being developed was a false distinction because any weapon can be used for torture.
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posted on
03/04/2005 6:14:34 AM PST
by
aruanan
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