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2004-05-04 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Mike 2004-05-04 12:41:40 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 100 kilowatts needed to microwave Yassir Arafat

Mike : How about Mullah al-Sadr in Iraq?

Or maybe the whining Al-Jazeera cameraman?

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-04 1:16:10 PM|| 2004-05-04 1:16:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 That was a reference to one of our classic postings, on Arafat's paranoid fear of Israeli death rays. IIRC, you're relatively new in town, and so might not catch all the "inside baseball" references. My bad; shoulda put a link in.

Posted by Mike 2004-05-04 1:46:21 PM|| 2004-05-04 1:46:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 i think those Microwave systems are far more evil then lasers to people. I read about 5 months ago an article that claimed the Marines were sending 24 (i think) portable systems mainly for crowd control that used extremely harsh sound waves that are and fired and directed much like a conventional 'machine gun', its meant to be extremely unpleasant to have beamed on you and can cause eardrums to break too! Trouble is i cant find what the fuck ever happened to them, did they even make it onto the ship to go to Iraq? Also i seem to recall again US marines trialing a microwave beam emitting weapon that heats the skin to unbearable temperature and basically will cook you if you don't turn heel and run very fast , the system was deployed on a Humvee but again this system seems to have dropped off the radar.Maybe it was shit, maybe it was to brittle for military use,maybe it went 'black' as such, oh well there you have it my liited know how on Death Rays,interesting stuff,hey wonder what cooked Islamozoid smells like? :)

Posted by Shep UK 2004-05-04 1:46:44 PM|| 2004-05-04 1:46:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 harsh sounds!!

Are they broadcasting old Al Gore speeches. Isn't that against the Geneva Convention

Posted by capt joe 2004-05-04 7:06:37 PM|| 2004-05-04 7:06:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 capt joe - old Al Gore speeches / Death Rays?

Not unless someone gets singed by the hot air.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-04 7:10:12 PM|| 2004-05-04 7:10:12 PM|| Front Page Top

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