Comments on: Less-lethal weapons

By: palindrome

palindrome — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:03:36 +0000

Anybody besides me ever see that Get Smart movie about the nude bomb? You know, it’s a bomb that makes everybody naked. Nude bomb?

By: heather

heather — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:23:46 +0000

I remember reading about the Gay Bomb theory and it just made me laugh. And what do they meant by ‘non-lethal homosexual behavior’? Is there a such thing as lethal homosexual behavior? (nice graphic by the way. lol)

There was also a device that looked a lot like the Silent Guardian, but it emitted some kind of radio wave (I think) that made the target nauseous enough to vomit, which would help diwperse mobs.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:55:18 +0000

All this “Less than lethal” tech scares me. The reason we show restraint with weapons is because they kill people. If we tell people these things are less than lethal, I think you’ll find a lot of cases where people are killed with these weapons, since the operator of the stun gun/heat ray/etc. believed he/she couldn’t kill the suspect. I think we’ve even made war more sanitary with “smart” bombs, and we’re convincing more and more folks to go into unnecessary wars because we’re under a collective impression that nobody really gets hurt.

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:40:20 +0000

Anybody remember when the CIA was developing LSD as a non-lethal” weapon back in the 50s?

Ken Kesey did – see “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:24:39 +0000

“Don’t Heat Ray me, Bro!”

By: Ransom

Ransom — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:36:30 +0000

pica — I mean a tenth of a centimeter, not a meter. Oops!

By: pica

pica — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:11:44 +0000

Um, nice graphic for the ‘gay bomb.’ :)

As for the Silent Guardian, if it ‘only’ cooks me a tenth of a meter, i.e. ten centimeters, my arms and most of my leg region will be medium rare, if not well done!

By: Petro Pierre

Petro Pierre — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:02:17 +0000

What about the funniest joke in the world (a la Monty Python)? While lethal to many, perhaps those without a highly developed sense of humor would only be incapacitated.