Comments on: Video: The pain ray

By: Lazarus

Lazarus — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:49:53 +0000

We need to kill the enemy, not give him a hot foot. If civilians get killed, tough shit. Don’t want to get killed in the crossfire? Don’t hang out near terrorist animals.

By: JustTruth101

JustTruth101 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:28:18 +0000

Awesome…use it on the border and in Iraq.

By: bones47

bones47 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:26:37 +0000

P.S. I say make an invisable border fence out of this thing. Energy requirments? It’s in the desert for the most part, solar dudes.

MirCat on March 6, 2007 at 4:09 PM

I say send this to our Mexican border asap to test it’s affectiveness

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:19:11 +0000

Pardon my inexperience. Let me see if I've figured this out. Experiment IV indeed.

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:37:54 +0000

“Guess I need a new hat” – Bullwinkle

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:30:44 +0000

This reminds me of a Kate Bush video from the early eighties, "Experiment IV" It was an early job for the actor from the TV show House. Stand back I'm going to attempt my first link thingy.

By: Texyank

Texyank — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:31:29 +0000

WTF . . . Just shoot the bastards. This is a war damnit.

Not crowd control or should I say insurgent control.

By: eeyore

eeyore — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:18:21 +0000

…there were only six cases of blistering and one instance of second-degree burns…

The first time one of these things gets used in a non-war crowd-control situation, and someone using some sort of “pain-inhibiting substance” gets their eyes fried, all parties involved can kiss their assets goodbye. Just ask some of the folks who have gone up against Silky Pony in court.

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:57:52 +0000

This is why I love HotAir! You guys are crackin’ me up, one of the funniest threads yet.

I hope they have a burn mode and kill mode. Burn hippies … kill terrorists.

They also could’ve used this at the Miami riots. Off topic, but during those Miami riots, the local tv news had one of the idiot protestors on the phone, they asked her “Do you condone the violence by the rioters?” The moron, calling herself ‘Moonbeam’ or something stupid like that answered ” I’ll tell you what I condone, I condone all the violence that American capitalists are doing to the rainforest in Brazil!” Newschick: “Wait, you *condone* that?” Moonbeam: “Yeah, I condone that! It’s wrong to cut down trees!” Newschick: “Um, no, I think you mean…” Moonbeam: “I condone the violence America has done to the people of the Third World!” Newschick: “You mean you *condemn* what America … (CLICK) … hello? Moonbeam?”

By: KCtheKat

KCtheKat — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:45:06 +0000

I wonder if it would work on the tin man, Looks like it’s time to get my tinfoil suit and hat out of the closet.

By: Kokonut

Kokonut — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:23:29 +0000

Early heat ray detection – a couple of microwave unpoped popcorn bags worn on the body.

I wonder if it’s accurate enough to aim the heat ray between the legs??

By: forged rite

forged rite — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:12:45 +0000

Sweet. Think i’ll try to make something similar out of my old microwave.

By: Texas Mike

Texas Mike — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:11:03 +0000

James Carville and Al Franken on loudspeakers would have been just as effective and a lot cheaper.

By: fusionaddict

fusionaddict — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:46:41 +0000

WARGASM!!!

By: flipflop

flipflop — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:41:55 +0000

Somehow, a puke ray is even cooler than a death ray. In an Animal House kind of way.

By: rw

rw — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:39:51 +0000

Who the hell signs up to test this kind of equipment.

I’d bet that a lot of volunteers were recruited from the SF Craigslist Casual Encounters section.

By: Video: Pain Ray Promo « tmq2

Video: Pain Ray Promo « tmq2 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:38:11 +0000

[...] (h/t Hot Air) [...]

By: ScottyDog

ScottyDog — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:36:14 +0000

In 10,000 trial exposures, there were only six cases of blistering and one instance of second-degree burns in a laboratory accident, according to Pentagon documents.

Who the hell signs up to test this kind of equipment.

By: Say Anything

Say Anything — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:00:48 +0000

The Weapon That Could Win The War In Iraq?…

I found this video over at Hot Air: Allah says he's not quite sure what tactical advantage these things offer, but it seems pretty clear to me. According to the video the range of these beams is much further than small arms fire. Which means that …

By: spmat

spmat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:54:15 +0000

Thank you, O Allah, for this gift of weapon porn.

By: mojo

mojo — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:50:00 +0000

Evil Spock: “Your agonizer, please.”

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:33:28 +0000

Hmm… I wonder if the depth is adjustable?

Not too much unless you move to smaller wavelengths (like x-rays). Depth of penetration is determined by the wavelength (this is essentially a MMW (30 – 300ghz) EHF (Extremely High Frequency) Radar system – A microwave oven if you will. Strictly speaking, these waves are smaller than microwaves.

By: Blacklake

Blacklake — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:19:47 +0000

I was under the impression there is a working prototype of this thing, but that doesn’t entail it’s in production. If the guys on the ground can make use of the prototype (as the USAF did the single existing E-8A JSTAR aircraft in the ’91 Gulf War), then by all means, ship it over. But if it’s something that could primarily be of use only if there were many distributed to multiple units, the system likely just isn’t ready yet (by all means, start building them as soon as feasible, but we shouldn’t produce what doesn’t have its kinks worked out, and we can’t field what we don’t yet have).

By: maintenanceman

maintenanceman — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:14:06 +0000

Hmm… I wonder if the depth is adjustable?

By: liquidflorian

liquidflorian — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:13:25 +0000

you should write a piece on Dragon Skin....