Posted on 06/26/2013 12:32:48 PM PDT by null and void
Yet another forkload of techno-BS piled onto FR.
First, the unit is “gray” not “ray”, names after Henry Louis Gray. 10 gray, or 1000 RADs of radiation, is enough to destroy a person’s bone marrow, which would kill them within 30 days. A medical chest X-ray is about 7 miligray, or 0.007 grays, so the lethal radiation dose would be equivalent to the radiation emitted by about 1,429 chest X-rays at once.
To generate that kind of ionizing radiation power requires enormous input power - think about a 2000 watt battery these yahoos were planning to use - that’s a van load. A battery of that size might be able to produce enough energy for a lethal dose of X-rays over a period of several hours of exposure. And since X-ray radiation strength decreases the further it is from the source, they’d have to be very close to the target - or make up for the distance with even more power. What were they going to do, drive up beside the victims bedroom window as he slept? Also, power sources capable of generating this kind of power require cooling, which further adds bulk and reduces portability. They’d better get a full-size van - plus.
So, it an X-rry superweapon feasible? If you could entice your victim to sleep in an abandoned power substation or something - maybe. But there are far simpler and more effective ways to kill someone. And once again, we see the combined effect of lousy science education and lazy journalists.
Bubba Earl Goldstein!
of course they would....
This story reminds me of an old cartoon. The sign on the wall says patent attorney. There is an inventor standing next to an attorney who is holding a gun-like entity by the open window. The words below the image read: Death ray!? Heck, it doesn’t even slow them down.
I applaud the guy for his creativity! You can use a portable microwave radar array to sterilize a certain segment of the population so whats the problem ?
I think this is out of FAS. They’re trying insanely hard to stay relevant, somehow :).
I'm reasonably certain the FBI did not need to "step in" in order to keep this plan from actually happening.
This is the new KKK.
They LOVE Jews!
You never know. I’ve seen a Democrat senator in Grand Kleagle uniform.
They may have the whole darpa...
I don’t know about the KKK but KFC could use this portable cooker.
LOL! WTH! is THAT!?
Wow.
No wonder they were arrested. Silently killing people deemed undesirable is what ObamaCare does, and liberals hate competition.
Amazing what’s floating around the net, isn’t it?
And I live about 10-12 miles from Smyrna, GA, for a kicker!
I read about this one elsewhere. Pretty funny.
Just wondering how Messrs Crawford and Feight differ from the folks who have developed drones and the missiles they carry?
Just a philosophical question, mind you.
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