The Shape of Things to Come sounds more painful than a swiss poetry recital.

dave

Looks like an effective way to stop Natasha leaving fingerprints all over my computer monitor.

Priceless

They could have saved alot of money and just used Richard Simmons - same effect.

"but there is no heat, only the sensation of heat. There is no burn mark or blister" and "that are tuned to a precise frequency to stimulate human nerve endings." – It is a microwave weapon and the human nerves are stimulated because the water molecules in the skin become hot – it's real heat and if the "recommended" exposure time is exceeded you can have all the blister you want.

Either way, if you are trapped and can't run it totally sucks. Or if you are caught by the wrong side and they strap your testicles to the device - adieu.

That isn't how I read it. The microwave in this is tuned to a frequency that stimulates the nerve endings, which sounds like it is a different frequency to that used in a microwave oven which is tuned to stimulate water molecules and generate actual heat.

But this could definitely be used as a torture device. They say it is harmless because people can just runaway. But what happens if they are prevented from running away, ie locked in a room?

If you've been through childbirth, that raygun would be a minor irritation...

Get the US inventors to come up with something which simulates labour pains, then they're talking...

And child birth does permanant physical and phsycological damage.

Lets cut the hypothetical crap.

You know they have already "tested" this on humans.

No they havn't, only on US Marines.

They've been testing it in hospital in the maternity wings for about 100 years - before that child birth was painless....

these will first be deployed into "quiet" carriages on the train and triggered by those using cellphones....


We hope!!

At least modern chastity belts will be less bulky from now on.

There is no magical wavelength to directly stimulate nerve endings, the principle behind the weapon is the same like in an ordinary microwave oven.

However the wavelength is different and the energy is absorbed in the skin. A kitchen microwave on the other hand penetrates several centimeters of water molecules.

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And the result is "wow, this needs much power to be effective in realistic situations."

Mmm hmm. And if you knew your stuff, you could take a lemon squeezer from the kitchen drawer and turn that into an effective torture device.
Of course, if it's that problematic for you as a battlefield weapon, you could go back to the old method of just pumping round after round into people. Much more humane, obviously.