Well after seeing http://rense.com/general72/cellcook.htm I'm ready for
the Tin-foil helmet
and the tin-foil underwear!

I often wonder what the mass of RF flinging about from everywhere does to
us. Especially
those in big cities like New York or LA, or Seoul.

Actually these so called 'non-lethal' systems scare me. Given they are
promoted as such,
law enforcement and military people get in a pretty trigger happy mindset
with weapons they
believe to be 'safe'. I can imagine the LAPD and NYPD hosing down crowds
with these
pretty indiscriminately, especially protesters.

We'll have to change Thomas Jefferson's "Dissent is the highest from of
patriotism" quote
to read "Dissent is the most painful form of patriotism".
Not that I've ever marched on anything, or plan to. But I defend the
right of those that choose to
do so, even the ones I think are idiots.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Tony Smith"
  To: "'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'"
  Subject: RE: [EE]:: "Non Lethal" energy weapon to be used in Iraq
  Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:55:25 +1100


  > The heading is in the claim in the link below.
  > The reality is ... ???
  >
  >
  > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72134-0.html?tw=rss.index
  >
  >
  >
  > 3mm microwave causes skin heating to pain threshold with user
  tolerances of
  > 3 to 5 seconds max. A number of pictures, some or all of which
  > may or may not be genuine. Even has named people from Sandia labs
  > doing demos. The claimed cost of $40 million over 10 years is too
  > low or too long or means it doesn't really work very well. Nobody
  > spends "so little" on something with such promise or takes so
  > long if it works.


  Great. Now I going to have to wear tin foil on *everything*.

  Tony

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