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US army's new secret weapon (w/Pics)
dailymail.co.uk — Coming soon, to a riot near you.
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"This machine has the ability to inflict limitless, unbearable pain. What makes it OK, says Raytheon, is that the pain stops as soon as you are out of the beam or the machine is turned off."
Great, an unbearable torture device that leaves no evidence on the victim. I'm sure this will only be used in proper, moral and legal ways. -
I wonder if this works effectively if you're on large doses of Vicodin or other nerve inhibitors...
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yeah that'll disperse peaceful protests in the blink of an eye! hey we don't need to worry about people being ***** off at the ***** the government does anymore! they can drive them away with the flick of a switch and the zap of a ray gun.
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makes you wonder how or who they tested this thing on before they came up with the final design.
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ADS active denial system. Firehoses... meet the future. Coming to an anti war protest near you. If we ever hae riots like in the 60's, people are gonna get ***** up.
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We could have provided expanded cable for 10 million of America's poorest children with the money that went into that. Shame....
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"and is not being sold to countries with questionable human rights records."
Which country was this made in again?
How is finding new and interesting ways to inflict pain on humans not 'questionable' against human rights? -
This is great. Another useful tool to combat terrorists. With DARPA and america's best tech companies working with the military, we will save lives and protect innocents.
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Hey guys with tinfoil hats, see if it works as a full body shield :D
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just what the world needs yet another method of inflicting pain without visible marks
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Yes, please trash this device as much as possible. Call your congressmen and have it banned. After all, it's much better to just ***** SHOOT PEOPLE. A candy-ass little non-lethal device like this takes all the fun out of riot-busting.
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Don't "Silent Guardian" me bro!
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this was on FutureWeapon on Discovery a while ago.
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Okay, this isn't new. This even had a segment on the morning news a few months ago. And you know how morning news is. They all wanted to see how it worked. "Ow! Hah hah! Ow!"
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Hmm...if it uses microwaves or radio waves of any kind, couldn't it be defeated with a Faraday Cage?
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the look on his face says it all ***** OW!!!!!
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When I first heard about this device, it was about 10 years ago and they described it as an alternative to lethal weaponry for military use. I did not expect them to use this ***** on protesters or for crowd control until the upspurt in taserings of the last couple of years. Now I'm suddenly afraid.
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Hasn't this been known about for awhile? It's not exactly a secret.
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Your instincts will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so you will die.
Heat, upon heat, upon heat... -
How can anyone not see this as a huge potential for abuse of power?
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Everyone there is civilized, walking around, watching the things and laughing and smiling. Then there's him, the only dumbass to actually touch things.
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http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Agony_booth
The booth works by stimulating the pain center of virtually any humanoid... -
Any weapon system devised will be put to use by your adversary. So that unbearable pain can and will go both ways. To think otherwise is shortsighted and naive.
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Just wait until they mount it on unmanned land and air vehicles.
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Put your hand inside the box, young Atreides...
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This could be one of the worst inventions next to the nuke... Imagine the ability for someone to abuse this? Seriously, this is a sick creation. It doesn't take much imagination to imagine this device being used in inappropriate ways. "Oh put him on the machine for a few min, he won't be dead". I'd be ashamed to create a device like this, especially with the current state of the US and waterboarding and the like.
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OK. So you grab a piece of cardboard and wrap it in tinfoil, or buy one of those sunscreen things for your car's windshield. Then it's back to teargas and pepper balls, stun guns and rubber bullets. The real people to get ***** by this are going to be "terrorists" and interrogation victims.
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This needs to be made illegal. What the ***** is happening to this country? Whoever came up with this needs to be strapped to it with it running for all eternity. Such a sick mind deserves it.
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Because the beam penetrates skin only to a depth of 1/64th of an inch, it cannot, says Raytheon, cause visible, permanent injury.
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It's just like a neuronic whip from Isaac Asimov's books.
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If it had a blue LED fan, I'd swear it was my Power Supply...
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"But it is a horrible device nonetheless, and you are forced to wonder what the world has come to when human ingenuity is pressed into service to make a thing like this."
As opposed to 50 years ago when it was pressed into making nuclear bombs. -
So some super secret new weapon is able to be tested by some Brit at what looks to be an industry trade show? I think there is a bit of sensationalism there.
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You guys are crazy. You have to say "the government is stupid i hate the world i hate god i hate everyone because i want capitalist america to perish." If you can't admit how cool this thing is you are a pussy and nerd. Such a lethal combination, because it means you'll sit around complaining your ass off for the rest of your life. You will talk about how much the president is horrible and how the government eats babies but you probably won't even vote because your a little busy with some new Linux/Unix hckzor pwnage release!
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These things can be defeated fairly easily in protest situations. You know those metal screens found on the front of microwaves? All you need is one similar with a mesh size just smaller than the wavelength used by this device (I'm guessing its close to a microwave oven's wavelength). Thus the radiation will be nicely reflected, leaving you as happy as a california cow.
The good thing is you can still walk around and see through the shield since it would have holes in it. The people will always win. -
When you can quell a riot by talking, lemme know. For now, its the best thing we've got. Or would you rather have police with riot sheilds, batons, and tear gas?
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Silent Guardian seems like euphemism for what it should really be called, Portable Hell.
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Recent Taser abuse proves the police will handle this new weapon responsibly and not abuse it as well.
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Now all we need is a gom jabber and we can test who is human and not.
There is just no reason to utilize this type of technology. -
What if this is like when the atom bomb was invented? There could be unknown risks to being exposed to these rays. Its all about radiation people.
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I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
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Seems to me, if this were so Top Secret, journalists in the UK probably wouldn't Know about it.
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I'd trust the weekly world news over the Daily Mail.
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We need to find a way to duplicate this device to use it to our (the people's) benefit. If they turn that thing on us, we turn it right back against them. It's microwaves, I'm sure trial and error could duplicate the technology.
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Look at all the "news" articles to the right of it. I guess those are the day's headlines.
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Reminds me of that pain-o-matic thing that was used on Winston in 1984 when he got captured.
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Don't Ray Me, Bro!
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This is so unbelievable ***** up and atrocious that I really dont know what else to say.
I am just very saddened that I didnt grow up at some other time, in some other place.
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