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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:12 PM Original message |
Military develops a Star Trek-like phaser |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. Wow... my inner geek just ODed. n/t |
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Bassic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Ditto nt |
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timber84 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. beam me up rummy |
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BloodyWilliam (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. Um, it's just a laser pointer. |
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benburch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:21 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. There is a laser/energy weapon more like a phaser, though... |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. PhaShizzle |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Are you thinking of an Ion Gun? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. No. There's a technology that creates an ionized channel to the target... |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. that's the one I read about |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. yeah a beam of coherent light with the right wavelength and energy |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 02:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
28. knowing the military, they would add a sound effect to it... |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 03:49 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. oh lardy lardy |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
8. Set your faces to "stunned" |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. Kirkland airforce base, eh? |
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plasticsundance (786 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
13. I believe the military is working on transporting ... |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
14. Meanwhile, Al Qaeda have invented the ... |
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Sam_Lowry (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 09:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Good One! |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 11:14 AM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Which can be neutralized with the MAGIC MIRROR |
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norml (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
15. Web Results 1 - 10 of about 118,000 for "directed energy weapons". |
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ThreeCatNight (930 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
16. Can you say....big ass flashlight? nt |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
17. To us on the next generation of "ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS" |
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FighttheFuture (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
18. Now if they could only develop a society, an economics, like Star Trek... |
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Sam_Lowry (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 09:59 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Unfortunately, this is the society they are working towards |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 02:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. In ST that was a technological evolution, not a social revolution. |
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FighttheFuture (748 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 07:35 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. That's one opinion... not quite correct, though... |
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Hyernel (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
19. Let me know when I can have a LIGHTSABER!!! |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 09:52 AM Response to Reply #19 |
26. vvvvVVVVVV vvvvvvvv vvvvvvvvvv |
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Emillereid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. Like the human race needs another weapon! |
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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. "The rifle-sized weapon temporarily disorients its target" |
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OKthatsIT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 11:43 PM Response to Original message |
24. Its going to kill many people |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 03:50 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. It will blind a lot of people too |
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Sabriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-01-05 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
25. PLEASE don't tie Star Trek in to this bunch of militaristic *uckers |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
30. Sorry. Without Scotty they won't be able to repair it when it breaks |
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VegasWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
31. WONDERFUL!! A beam of coherent light controlled by an incoherent |
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tabasco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-02-05 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
34. Your tax dollrs a t work. |
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