Re: Tesla Rifle Article, CNN/AP

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>

Hi,

"Blinding laser/microwave weapons" are an obvious UN protocol four 
violation...  I would wish that true Americans would still seek humanity 
despite their "fears" of in-human attacks...

Terry


At 08:45 PM 8/16/2004, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/16/04 7:51:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>At the same Air Force Research Laboratory in New Mexico, researchers
>working with Raytheon Co. have developed a weapon called the Active
>Denial
>System, which repels adversaries by heating the water molecules in their
>
>skin with microwave energy.  The pain is so great that people flee
>immediately.
>
>( Take apart your microwave!  And don't look down the waveguide with
>your
>remaining good eye! )
>
>"It feels like your skin is on fire," said Rich Garcia, a spokesman for
>the
>laboratory who, as a test subject, has felt the Active Denial System's
>heat.  "When you get out of the path of the beam, or shut off the beam,
>everything goes back to normal.  There's no residual pain."
>
>However, the blindness caused by boiling the liquid out of your eyes IS 
>irreversable. But troops will be on "Scout's Honor" not to point such a 
>weapon at anyone's face during riot conditions, just like the rubber 
>bullets used in the 60s & 70s.
>
>Matt D.
>(1968 Democratic Convention survivor)