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Offline aldo_14

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After the skin-frying laser, comes....
on: March 07, 2007, 05:27:58 am
 

Offline Mefustae

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #1 on: March 07, 2007, 05:36:01 am
Hooray! It's just like Mardi Gras!
 

Offline Col. Fishguts

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #2 on: March 07, 2007, 05:57:42 am
They're really trying hard to get as many Star Trek references as possible in that article.
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Offline Nuclear1

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #3 on: March 07, 2007, 08:31:02 am
Quote from: aldo_14 on March 07, 2007, 05:27:58 am
The vomit gun!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/07/us_navy_project_cookie_toss/

You know, for some reason after reading that, I don't really see this gun being all that terrifying.  With the Air Force's skin fryer, there seemed to be pain involved.

With the Navy's barf-o-matic, I just get flashbacks to the Family Guy episode where Peter, Brian, Chris, and Stewie all chug ipecac.
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Offline vyper

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #4 on: March 07, 2007, 10:56:29 am
Except for some people, vomiting can be life-threatening. Diabetics for example would have to replace the lost sugar in a fairly decent amount of time. People with gastrointestinal problems may be adversely effected.  People with breathing problems may suffer complications from the gag reflex.

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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #5 on: March 07, 2007, 11:13:50 am
Well, a bit aside the topic but anyway... I would like to know what kind of an effect the microwave skin toaster gun would have on a bunch of sauna-conditioned people... :mad2:
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Offline Flipside

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #6 on: March 07, 2007, 12:18:14 pm
I find it odd that weapon seems to be changing it's impetus on weapon design from 'killing the bad guy' to 'controlling a crowd that doesn't agree with you'.

It really doesn't bode well in the long run.
  

Offline Taristin

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #7 on: March 07, 2007, 12:28:32 pm
I can just picture these things being used on eachother on board ship. Particularly at meal time.
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Offline Harbinger of DOOM

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #8 on: March 07, 2007, 02:56:40 pm
Quote from: Taristin on March 07, 2007, 12:28:32 pm
I can just picture these things being used on eachother on board ship. Particularly at meal time.
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Offline Mr. Vega

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #9 on: March 07, 2007, 04:28:03 pm
The purpose of all these non-lethal projects is to develop weapons that can be used on protestors (angry mobs in mediaspeak) in occupied countries without the diplomatic fuss of massacring them or threatening them with lethal force. Of course, if they work on protestors in foreign countries, there's no reason why they won't work on domestic unrest...
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Offline Nuclear1

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #10 on: March 07, 2007, 06:09:17 pm
Quote from: Taristin on March 07, 2007, 12:28:32 pm
I can just picture these things being used on eachother on board ship. Particularly at meal time.

Hey, I nabbed this from the cargo shipment.  First one to puke is latrine queen for the next three weeks!
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!
 

Offline Charismatic

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #11 on: March 08, 2007, 12:49:25 pm
"which are designed to disperse crowds by lightly frying their outer skin layers."

lightly frying? and if the power setting accidentaly was increased? then we have some toasted people, or ppl made deaf.
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Offline DeepSpace9er

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #12 on: March 09, 2007, 05:46:03 pm
So what we have here is an (EVE Term) faction stasis webifer/target jammer that causes puking.

I think the sick sticks of Minority report would have been a better comparison than 'Set phasers to puke.'
 

Offline Nuclear1

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #13 on: March 09, 2007, 05:52:18 pm
Quote from: DeepSpace9er on March 09, 2007, 05:46:03 pm
So what we have here is an (EVE Term) faction stasis webifer/target jammer that causes puking.

I think the sick sticks of Minority report would have been a better comparison than 'Set phasers to puke.'

Star Trek is better known though.
Spoon - I stand in awe by your flawless fredding. Truely, never before have I witnessed such magnificant display of beamz.
Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
Nuclear1 - I want a duet.
AndrewofDoom - Make it a trio!
 

Offline Cobra

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #14 on: March 09, 2007, 07:55:37 pm
I had a weird picture as I read the "unconscious vomiting" part.

"Stun him!"
*dude falls over*
"Subject down-- Wait, what the hell is that?"
*Unconscious dude gurgles*
"****ing sick dude!"
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Offline Agent_Koopa

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #15 on: March 10, 2007, 08:20:57 am
Quote from: Charismatic on March 08, 2007, 12:49:25 pm
"which are designed to disperse crowds by lightly frying their outer skin layers."

lightly frying? and if the power setting accidentaly was increased? then we have some toasted people, or ppl made deaf.

Maybe "lightly frying" was a bad choice of words. Use "causing lots of pain" instead.
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Offline Taristin

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #16 on: March 10, 2007, 05:32:33 pm
Its all fun and games until someone drowns in their own vomit. Then its lethal again.
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Offline Iron Wolf

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #17 on: March 10, 2007, 07:36:18 pm
Quote from: Agent_Koopa on March 10, 2007, 08:20:57 am

Maybe "lightly frying" was a bad choice of words. Use "causing lots of pain" instead.

Perhaps "Hot enough to Incapacitate" would be best
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Offline Cobra

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #18 on: March 10, 2007, 07:41:14 pm
Sunscreen anyone?
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I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline Agent_Koopa

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Re: After the skin-frying laser, comes....
Reply #19 on: March 10, 2007, 09:54:44 pm
Quote from: Iron Wolf on March 10, 2007, 07:36:18 pm
Quote from: Agent_Koopa on March 10, 2007, 08:20:57 am

Maybe "lightly frying" was a bad choice of words. Use "causing lots of pain" instead.

Perhaps "Hot enough to Incapacitate" would be best

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