Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"

From: inigo@montoya.net (D. P. Roberts)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Oct 28, 2001 11:38 AM

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991470
The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service

Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds

19:00 24 October 01
Jeff Hecht, Boston

Tests of a controversial weapon that is designed to heat people's skin
with a microwave beam have shown that it can disperse crowds. But
critics are not convinced the system is safe.

Last week, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in New Mexico
finished testing the system on human volunteers. The Air Force now
wants to use this Active Denial Technology (ADT), which it says is
non-lethal, for peacekeeping or riot control at "relatively long
range" - possibly from low-flying aircraft.

ADT uses a 2-metre dish to create a narrow beam of microwaves that can
be scanned across a crowd or even aimed at individuals. AFRL is using
infrared photography to analyse the heating effect on the volunteers'
bodies.

AFRL says that the 3-millimetre wavelength radiation penetrates only
0.3 millimetres into the skin, rapidly heating the surface above the
45 oC pain threshold. At 50 oC, they say the pain reflex makes people
pull away automatically in less than a second - it's said to feel like
fleetingly touching a hot light bulb. Someone would have to stay in
the beam for 250 seconds before it burnt the skin, the lab says,
giving "ample margin between intolerable pain and causing a burn".

Little data

But critics question the AFRL's claims that the weapon's undisclosed
exposure levels are safe. John Pike of think tank Globalsecurity.org
fears that the beam power needed to scare people may be too close to
the level that would injure them. Air Force scientists helped set the
present skin safety threshold of 10 milliwatts per square centimetre
in the early 1990s, when little data was available, says Louis Slesin,
editor of Microwave News.

That limit covers exposure to steady fields for several minutes to an
hour - but heating a layer of skin 0.3 mm thick to 50 oC in just one
second requires much higher power and may pose risks to the cornea,
which is more sensitive than skin. A study published last year in the
journal Health Physics showed that exposure to 2 watts per square
centimetre for three seconds could damage the corneas of rhesus
monkeys.

19:00 24 October 01
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Subject: Re: Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"
From: "Rev. Enki" <revenki@home.com>

Guess the antiglobalization protest folks will be carrying popcorn packets
in their pockets from now on...sort of a "canary in the coalmine" warning
sign, eh?

Whatever happened to infrasound weapons...those low-range sound generators
that pump out inaudible audio which resonates with certain frequencies in
the body to produce panic and the "flight" response?
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Subject: Re: Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"
From: "LXIX" <post_replys_please@this.address.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Sun, Oct 28, 2001 12:49 PM

"Rev. Enki" wrote ...
>
> Guess the antiglobalization protest folks will be carrying popcorn packets
> in their pockets from now on...sort of a "canary in the coalmine" warning
> sign, eh?

Just those little microwave leak detectors that glow. :)

> Whatever happened to infrasound weapons...those low-range sound generators
> that pump out inaudible audio which resonates with certain frequencies in
> the body to produce panic and the "flight" response?

3-8 Hz is all it takes. That's about the resonance frequency of the large
intestine. Subject someone to enough of that and they get an instant case
of the shits. :O

Of course a blinking light at 3Hz is usually just right to send prone people
into epileptic fits.

--LXIX--
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Subject: Re: Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

Saay! Didn't congress just recently pass a bill outlawing the
lining of garments with aluminum foil? Supposedly to defeat
the anti-shoplifting devices...

> Of course a blinking light at 3Hz is usually just right to
> send prone people into epileptic fits.
>

Yeah, and there was that anime that did the same thing,
caused a whole bunch of people to have seizures.

And you wanna try out this:

http://www.boneland.com/movies/szg/index.html

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Subject: Re: Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"
From: illrefute@aol.com (IllRefute)

a kitchen chemist with a -good- sense of humor would make and use this to
disperse rioting police..............or devise a similar weapon that stimulates
anal retension while simultaneously giving them the urge to shit effectively
ripping them a new one
"Sanity is a trick pony anyway. I mean seriously, all you get is that one
trick. When you're good and crazy, the sky's the limit!"
-The Tick

So what *is* the difference between a duck?
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Subject: Re: Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

>
> Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds
>

I feel sorry for the old drunk that teeters out of a bar just before
the riot, passes out on the sidewalk and lays there cooking for well
over the 250 second basting time recommended by the cookbook. The
clean-up squad would be asking each other who's cookin' burgers until
they found him by the dumpster there. But I guess life is dangerous for
passed out drunks, when it's not being Slackful.

--
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Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
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Subject: Re: Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"
From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

IllRefute wrote:
>
> a kitchen chemist with a -good- sense of humor
> would make and use this to disperse rioting police...

Well, to start, it's an old trivia bit that WWI pilots
used to drink blackberry cordials, because they stoppered
them up. Why? Because the lubricating fluid in those
funky rotary engines (in which the engine block rotated!),
was castor oil. While flying they got a constant, thin
spray mist of castor oil in the face.

Imagine an inexpensive, large oil vaporizor, that
generated a dense, but invisible cloud of an odorless,
colorless, tasteless, laxative fog...

...that covered, let's say, a one square mile area.

*
The full moon broke through the scudding black clouds
and, as its cold light threw the bleak facades of the
tombstones into sharp relief, it revealed the presence
of the great slavering mastiff at the open door of the
crypt, its satanic red eyes glittering as it slowly
raised its massive head skyward and wagged its little
tail.
--Brian J. Collins
*
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Subject: Re: Yeah, we're all just "conspiracy" "theorists"
From: "Alliekatt" <alleykatzen@hotmail.com>

"nu-monet" <nothing@succeeds.com> wrote in message
news:3BDC545C.498C@succeeds.com...

> > Of course a blinking light at 3Hz is usually just right to
> > send prone people into epileptic fits.
> >
>
> Yeah, and there was that anime that did the same thing,
> caused a whole bunch of people to have seizures.
>
> And you wanna try out this:
>
> http://www.boneland.com/movies/szg/index.html

and this:

http://www.mayhem.net/sub/protocols.html

of course the rest of the site is immensely cool too. It takes about
fifteen to thirty seconds for each window to play itself out, or you can
click through.

alliekatt

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