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DoE Seeks Star Trek Phasers For A-Plants[Atomic] (Directed energy weapons)
UPI via Spacedaily ^
| 7-8-05
| Martin Sieff (UPI)
Posted on 07/08/2005 7:07:07 AM PDT by Crazieman
DoE Seeks Star Trek Phasers For A-Plants
by Martin Sieff Washington (UPI) Jul 08, 2005 The Department of Energy is turning to old Star Trek phasers to protect its 103 civilian nuclear plants. Energy weapons capable of harmlessly stunning intruders are being developed and should be in general use by 2008. But many experts warn they will be inadequate and unnecessary for the real security dangers nuclear plant guards would face.
U. S scientists have unveiled details of a project that aims to develop Star Trek-style ray guns that could keep "security adversaries" out of DoE nuclear sites, the vnu.com web-site in the Netherlands reported this week.
The DoE's Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance together with the Department of Defense, is "exploring the potential" of directed-energy weapons based on millimeter-wave rays, vnu.com said.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: directedenergy; doe; phasers
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To: Crazieman
protect its 103 civilian nuclear plants Homer with a phaser?
I don't think so.
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posted on
07/08/2005 7:51:21 AM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(Tina Delgado is alive! ALIVE!)
To: Crazieman
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posted on
07/08/2005 7:51:29 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(ZOT gun)
To: Andy from Beaverton
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posted on
07/08/2005 7:57:55 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(chance is the “magic wand to make not only rabbits but entire universes appear out of nothing.”)
To: Little Pig
How about an M41A1 pulse rifle with a 30mm grenade launcher underbarrel?
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:37:08 AM PDT
by
Starter
To: Starter
No thanks. Chemical-powered projectile weapons are so last century.
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:45:04 AM PDT
by
Little Pig
(Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
To: Crazieman
I want one! Blasters are cooler than phasers, though.
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:46:46 AM PDT
by
JenB
(Doin' my own theme song)
To: JenB
But blasters are clumsy and random weapons...
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posted on
07/08/2005 10:33:56 AM PDT
by
Starter
To: Starter
If it's good enough for Han Solo, it's good enough for me.
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posted on
07/08/2005 10:36:10 AM PDT
by
JenB
(Doin' my own theme song)
To: MadIvan
"If the lightsaber combatant knows Form III (Soresu), they can easily deflect politically correct pansy phaser blasts. ;) "
LOL!!! And I thought I was bad, discussing the Anita Blake (Anitaverse) novels as though she really existed! ;o)
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posted on
07/08/2005 10:37:30 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: MadIvan
"When they come out with lightsabers, call me."
It was sufficiently demonstrated in "Return of the Jedi" that Ewoks with pointy sticks are a much more potent fighting force.
To: MadIvan
I'll see your light saber and raise you this...
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07/08/2005 11:08:30 AM PDT
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Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: Erik Latranyi
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posted on
07/08/2005 12:32:48 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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