RE: SSTC battle continues!

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Original poster: "David Trimmell" <humanb-at-chaoticuniverse-dot-com> 

Good research Steve, looks to me like more wasted tax dollars. But one
of the real realities of public domain science is that anyone can do
with it what they will...

Regards,

David Trimmell

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Subject: RE: SSTC battle continues!

Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com>

  >HAHAHAHA!!!  If i know as much as i *think* i do, this
  >this is all a bunch of...

I certainly hope that Pete Bitar is just another "Death Ray Matthews".
It
would be a shame to see technology that we developed for fun getting
turned
into weapons.

  >From a technical point of view, we can imagine that such a weapon
would be
hard to use without giving the firer every bit as much of a "non-lethal
jolt" as the victim. It might work if the firer wore a conductive suit
or
had grounded studs on his boots, but somehow it all seems a bit Hmmmmmm.



Here's what Google turned up:

"Pete Bitar, president of Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems, looks over
a
demonstration unit of a directed-energy weapon." The picture shows a
SSTC
streamer to air about 12" long. Certainly not 10'.
http://www-cgi.cnn-dot-com/2004/TECH/science/08/02/directedenergyweapons.ap/

More info on the "StunStrike" system
http://www.insideindianabusiness-dot-com/newsitem.asp?id=10773

A Museum Of Hoaxes entry
http://www.museumofhoaxes-dot-com/hoax/weblog/comments/1166/

New Scientist article
http://www.newscientist-dot-com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996014

And the website of the man himself
http://www.xtremeads-dot-com/


Steve C.