Re: Lightning Gun To Combat Terrorists - WHERE IS THE RETURN PATH???

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Original poster: "Mercurus2000" <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>

I think people are forgetting this is supposed to be a NONLETHAL weapon,
adding a return path on a weapon like that if it's tesla coil based would
probably give a lethal shock, that's how Henry Transtrom died. So I doubt
any sort of ground spike or something similar as a return path will not be
used, because nonlethality couldn't be guaranteed anymore.
Adam
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Subject: Re: Lightning Gun To Combat Terrorists - WHERE IS THE RETURN
PATH???


> Original poster: stork <stork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >Radio waves only need an antenna long enough to create a potential
> >difference in the presence of electromagnetic waves.  They operate
> >in free space such as on satellites and space craft.  In a real way,
> >EM waves tend to bring the ground path along with them ;-)
>
> Oh, I get it, a traveling virtual ground. Is this virtual ground at
> the same potential as the real ground from where it was
> launched?  Maybe someone could devise an experiment to prove this
> virtual ground exists and it's potential relative to the real ground
> potential is the same as it must be, if there is a true return path.
>
> Otherwise, the weapon shooter would not be concerned if the EM wave
> took along its own ground path.  No return path back to the shooter
> is necessary.
>
> So, on a cold dry December morning Terry is walking in his leather
> shoes across his carpet.  As his hand reaches for the well insulated
> front door metal handle a sharp snappy little spark arcs between his
> index finger and the well insulated metal door knob.  Has the door
> knob potential changed?
>
> Where is the return path?
>
>
> Stork
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