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| Jul 27th, 2004 01:23 PM | ||
| mburbank | They should do a Tesla Biopic with Tony Shaloub as Tesla. | |
| Jul 27th, 2004 12:58 PM | ||
| Preechr |
The pentultimate Mad Scientist. LOVE HIM. I can easily believe Tunguska and the Wardenclyffe rumors based only on what he actually did accomplish. Has he actually seen Mars? Umm... I'll doubt that one... Same with him still living in the Andes with Marconi's bunch... though I will tentatively believe the flying dics they developed for the Frech actually existed, if pressed. The technology was just there. My favorite teacher ever was an ancient Physics guru that showed me a notebook he'd kept for 50 years detailing technological advances that could and should have happened though were never published. He had a month segment of his advanced class devoted to Tesla. |
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| Jul 27th, 2004 10:38 AM | ||
| mburbank |
Oh... Okay. There's an awful lot of Hoo-hah around Tesla. At the Museum I work at we expend soome time and energy rehabilitating the poor bastards image. I love him. And not just because I think OCD is hysterical. |
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| Jul 27th, 2004 09:49 AM | ||
| Preechr | I...er... am actually being serious in my adoration... | |
| Jul 27th, 2004 09:21 AM | ||
| mburbank |
Listen, the fact that people are nutty on the subject of Tesla discredits the actual Tesla no more than the fact that people are nutty on the subject of Jesus discredits the teachings of Jesus. Death rays aside, Tesla the actual person was one hell of a smart guy. |
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| Jul 26th, 2004 07:55 PM | ||
| Preechr | OMG!!11 TESLA AND THE INFAMOUS BROWN NOISE IN THE SAME THREAD!!11 | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 07:29 PM | ||
| ArrowX | I'd fund that | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 06:41 PM | ||
| kahljorn | They should have a weapon of mass destruction that makes people defecate themselves, then they'd be too embarassed to fight back! | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 03:17 PM | ||
| Spectre X |
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| Jul 26th, 2004 03:15 PM | ||
| Preechr |
B-b-but he DID do it!!!  All the facts are THERE, and easily connected, albeit loosely!! Why else did the FBI take down Wardenclyffe Tower? Huh? HUH?! No answer, huh? That settles it! Tesla blew up half of Russia! *runs away* |
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| Jul 26th, 2004 02:01 PM | ||
| Spectre X |
I know that Tesla probably didn't have anything to do with the Tunguska incident, but I like to think that he did. Also, no meteorite that has water in it that's getting flash-boiled can create a shockwave that travels the globe twice. |
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| Jul 26th, 2004 01:47 PM | ||
| Preechr | Tesla fans are the smartest people ever. | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 12:22 PM | ||
| pjalne | Hey, what happened to the sonic weapons that were supposed to be the next big thing? | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 12:14 PM | ||
| AChimp |
This gun sounds awesome. I can't wait to hear that it's been used on some hippy faggots that start smashing windows at the next G8 summit or whatever.  
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| Jul 26th, 2004 11:03 AM | ||
| Spectre X |
I vote Tesla to be the most hard-core scientist of all time. The guy basically vaporized a large area in Siberia. |
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| Jul 26th, 2004 10:34 AM | ||
| mburbank | Once again, Tesla proves to have been ahead of his time. | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 10:08 AM | ||
| Cosmo Electrolux | our government would never, ever use devices like that against us...it would be unamerican! | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 09:32 AM | ||
| Anonymous | But now we'll have stealth torture. Think of the children for once, you heartless bastard. | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 09:21 AM | ||
| Perndog |
They've already got long range stun guns that use conductive liquid... As for this being a horrifying new torture device: Hello, people? The effects are about the same as a regular stun gun, only at longer range. If you're torturing someone, you probably aren't worried about getting close to him. |
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| Jul 26th, 2004 04:10 AM | ||
| FS |
I don't see how this could possibly go wrong.
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| Jul 26th, 2004 12:54 AM | ||
| Anonymous | Are you excited? I'm excited. | |
| Jul 26th, 2004 12:05 AM | ||
| Sethomas |
Sounds like the writer knows a lot about physics.  But yeah, I think it should be properly tested and such. |
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| Jul 25th, 2004 11:55 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
Wireless Weapons Source: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996014 Sweeping stun guns to target crowds 19:00 16 June 04 Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. Weapons that can incapacitate crowds of people by sweeping a lightning-like beam of electricity across them are being readied for sale to military and police forces in the US and Europe. At present, commercial stun guns target one person at a time, and work only at close quarters. The new breed of non-lethal weapons can be used on many people at once and operate over far greater distances. But human rights groups are appalled by the fact that no independent safety tests have been carried out, and by their potential for indiscriminate use. The weapons are designed to address the perceived shortcomings of the Taser, the electric-shock gun already used by 4000 police departments in the US and undergoing trials with some police forces in the UK. It hits the victim with two darts that trail current-carrying wires, which limit its range to a maximum of seven metres (see graphic). As a single shot, short-range weapon, the Taser is of little use in crowd control. And Tasers have no effect on vehicles. Ionised gas These limitations are beginning to be overcome. Engineers working for the US Department of Defense's research division, DARPA, and defence companies in Europe have been working out how to create an electrically conductive path between a gun and a target without using wires. A weapon under development by Rheinmetall, based in Dorf, Germany, creates a conducting channel by using a small explosive charge to squirt a stream of tiny conductive fibres through the air at the victim (New Scientist print edition, 24 May 2003). Meanwhile, Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems (XADS), based in Anderson, Indiana, will be one of the first companies to market another type of wireless weapon. Instead of using fibres, the $9000 Close Quarters Shock Rifle projects an ionised gas, or plasma, towards the target, producing a conducting channel. It will also interfere with electronic ignition systems and stop vehicles. "We will be able to fire a stream of electricity like water out of a hose at one or many targets in a single sweep," claims XADS president Peter Bitar. Solid-state lasers The gun has been designed for the US Marine Corps to use for crowd control and security purposes and is due out in 2005. It is based on early, unwieldy technology and has a range of only three metres, but an operator can debilitate multiple targets by sweeping it across them for "as long as there is an input power source," says Bitar. XADS is also planning a more advanced weapon which it hopes will have a range of 100 metres or more. Instead of firing ionised gas, it will probably use a powerful laser to ionise the air itself. The idea has been around for decades, says LaVerne Schlie, a laser expert at the US Air Force Research Lab in Kirtland, New Mexico. It has only become practical with advances in high-power solid-state lasers. "Before, it took a laser about the size of two trucks," says Schlie. "Now we can do it with something that fits on a tabletop." The laser pulse must be very intense, but can be brief. So the makers of the weapons plan to use a UV laser to fire a 5-joule pulse lasting just 0.4 picoseconds - equating to a momentary power of more than 10 million megawatts. This intense pulse - which is said not to harm the eyes - ionises the air, producing long, thread-like filaments of glowing plasma that can be sustained by repeating the pulse every few milliseconds. This plasma channel is then used to deliver a shock to the victims similar to a Taser's 50,000-volt, 26-watt shock. HSV Technologies of San Diego, California is also working on stun and vehicle-stopping shock weapons with ranges of over 100 metres. And another company, Ionatron of Tuscon, Arizona, is due to supply a prototype wireless vehicle-mounted weapon to the US Department of Defense by the end of 2004. But the advent of wireless stun weapons has horrified human rights groups. Robin Coupland of the Red Cross says they risk becoming a new instrument of torture. And Brian Wood of Amnesty International says the long-range stun guns could "inflict pain and other suffering on innocent bystanders". And there are safety concerns. Of the 30,000 times US police officers have fired Tasers, in 40 instances people stunned by them later died. The deaths have been attributed to factors such as overdoses of drugs and alcohol, or fighting with officers, rather than the electric shock. In a statement, Taser International chief Rick Smith said: "In every single case the medical examiner has attributed the direct cause of death to causes other than the Taser." Amnesty is not convinced, however, and wants an independent study of the effects of all existing and emerging electric-shock weapons. |
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