VIDEO: CBSNEWS Correspondent Gets 'Zapped' By Pentagon Ray Gun...

[FozzyBear]

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3888156n


Interesting

[RAfterman410]

Yeah it is it makes me wonder how it really feels, he didn't do a good job of explaining it. Also pretty creepy that a piece of plywood would stop the rays. Now i want to get shot by it just to see what it's like.

[sir_digalot]

is it not a low level microwave thing?

[RAfterman410]

no it's actually a millimeter wave.

[PoPJaY]

ya they did this ion future weapons, you got a better depiction from that

[sir_digalot]

the wiki article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System

[atomicbob]

Very cool.....they could probably turn it up and just flame ya.

Kick azz!

[loopcycle]

"high frequency microwave radiation"

i wonder if a pacemaker/artificial heart valve/replacement joint would start sparking? light em up! :D

good to know that we have new and improved weapons to use on american protesters.
dont like your new gun laws?
dont like your new unreasonable search and seizure policy?
maybe another unnecessary "conflict"?
you'd better write a letter--and dont you dare organize. :thumbsup:

[Nsane]

Wow, radiation? Anyone know how many milirems/rems? I wouldn't want to go anywhere near this thing without a lead vest for fear of radiation sickness/death.

[sir_digalot]

every "wave" is radiation, this includes the cell phone strapped to you ear, the TV, ALL visible light, all non visible light, (infra red ultraviolet etc) all this system does is use a very, really very, quite really very, high frequency wave, which length is a couple of millimeters, microwave ovens operate at 2.4ghz and has a wavelength about twice the size of the "holes" on the front window, a microwave is generally an electromagnetic wave with a frequency of 300mhz to 300ghz, the higher the frequency the smaller the wavelength (usually) lower frequencies are called radiowaves, but are still part of the E.M spectrum and still radiation.

IMO none of it can be really very good for us, since we are bathed in the stuff constantly from phones to TV's to electronics to a simple electric wire, and it is all bouncing all over the place, compared to the really old days when they had little or no artificial stuff, i can see why we have lots of fascinating diseases, congential defects and other things happeneing in recent years....

if your board wiki the electromagnetic spectrum

[Nsane]

I know that, but I get the feeling that this thing cranks up the rems so that on top of all the exposure we get, this doesn't sound like something I'd want to volunteer to test even besides the fact that its painful.

[FozzyBear]

It would have to be ionizing radiation to even register any rems/grays/roentgens/etc... Might get some BTU's out of it though. :)

My understanding is that this is not ionizing radiation.

[redish16]

Just saw this on 60 Minutes.

[sir_digalot]

i am sure we can make it ionizing, all we need to do is bumo up the particle size a little :D