Re: death ray

Androcles wrote:
>
> "RichD" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2b2e93bf-4849-49fd-b9cf-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Is it possible to construct a hand held weapon
> > like those Star Trek toys?
> >
> > We know that lasers can cut flesh, as surgical tools,
> > could you get enough intensity for something killer?
> > (with calibrations; tickle, stun, fibrillate, vaporize)
> >
> > --
> > Rich
>
> There is certainly a lot of energy in a shotgun shell or even
> a book of matches or a single match, all of which produce
> light. What you need is a way to harness that into
[snip crap]

A hamburger is substantially more energetic /_\H(combustion) than
TNT. So? Do you see Homeland Severity confiscating Carl's Six Dollar
Burgers? Tubs of Crisco?

idiot


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Salmon Egg wrote:
>
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Uncle Al <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > > There is certainly a lot of energy in a shotgun shell or even
> > > a book of matches or a single match, all of which produce
> > > light. What you need is a way to harness that into
> > [snip crap]
> >
> > A hamburger is substantially more energetic /_\H(combustion) than
> > TNT. So? Do you see Homeland Severity confiscating Carl's Six Dollar
> > Burgers? Tubs of Crisco?
>
> How about potato chips? They burn nicely and have been killing people
> for years. Great for arsonists. I have not tried smuggling them onto
> airliners, but I think I could.

The finest case of arson of which I know involve dousing the target
with... liquid oxygen. Let the cops detect something amiss afterwar!
OTOH, don't get hammered and talk about it.

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