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Post by Edward on Jun 3, 2004 14:23:06 GMT -5
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Post by Lunaria on Jun 3, 2004 21:40:42 GMT -5
I didn't find the story.
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Post by Edward on Jun 3, 2004 22:52:39 GMT -5
Invisible beam tops list of nonlethal weapons By Greg Gordon -- Bee Washington Bureau Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, June 1, 2004 Get weekday updates of Sacramento Bee headlines and breaking news. Sign up here.
WASHINGTON - Test subjects can't see the invisible beam from the Pentagon's new, Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces for more than three seconds. People who volunteered to stand in front of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire. When they stepped aside, the pain disappeared instantly.
The long-range column of millimeter-wave energy is known as the "Active Denial System" for its ability to prevent an aggressor from advancing. Senior military officials, who plan to deliver the device for troop evaluation this fall, say years of testing has produced no sign it will lead to health effects beyond perhaps causing skin to temporarily redden. It is among the most potent of a new generation of futuristic, "less-than-lethal" weapons being developed by the Defense Department - tools that could dramatically alter the way police control riots and soldiers fight wars.
Other nonlethal devices undergoing tests include "superlubricants" that could make a road or runway too slippery for car or airplane tires to gain traction; directed sound waves to drive people away from an area; and nets able to stop cars.
Marine Col. David Karcher, who heads the Pentagon's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, says the energy beam is aimed at helping troops and police in confusing situations by offering options "between bullets and a bullhorn."
Marine Capt. Dan McSweeney, a spokesman for the Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, pointed to "instances in Iraq where crowd situations have unfortunately ended in violence" and death.
Karcher and other military officials are trying to alleviate fears that the device might be misused to harm civilians or converted into a torture machine that leaves no marks.
In an attempt to anticipate how the world would greet the new weapon, the Air Force this month asked social science graduate students at the University of Minnesota and other colleges for help.
Researchers were offered $12,000 to spend the summer reviewing literature and assessing how Americans and other cultures might react to its use.
In the solicitation, Maj. Jonathan Drummond of the Air Force's Directed Energy Bioeffects Division noted that the Active Denial System could provide U.S. forces "with a nonlethal capability in military operations other than war." Among possible uses, he listed peacekeeping, humanitarian operations and crowd control.
Introduction of such a device in either noncombat or wartime situations could raise thorny questions: Would it be acceptable to inflict so much pain on unruly protesters? How would such a weapon be viewed if used on crowds in Third World countries? Would it violate international humanitarian principles if used in battle? Might it be used secretly during interrogations to torture suspected terrorists into cooperating?
Karcher said the Active Denial System "is absolutely not designed or intended or built" to be a torture device.
"To use this as any sort of torture device would be in direct violation of" the Pentagon's definition of nonlethal weapons, he said. "Nor, as professionals, would any of us sign up for it."
But in an era of secret interrogations of al-Qaida suspects and revelations of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, Executive Director Doug Johnson of the Minneapolis-based Center for Torture Victims is skeptical.
"It seems fundamentally a weapon that's designed to create a great deal of pain and fear," Johnson said. "The concern I would have is ... once this kind of technology is available and there's a perception that it's safe and nonlethal, it seems like a natural device to be used in interrogations.
"Is it torture if it only creates a sensation of pain, but leaves no marks and no long-term damage? I would say yes. Torture is primarily a psychological device, and finding different ways to use the body against the mind has been the struggle of torture technologies for thousands of years."
He said "human history would demonstrate" that once a potential torture technology is available, it usually is put into action.
Karcher and other military officials stressed that the device has received interim approvals from international treaty conventions, has twice passed Pentagon legal reviews and will be subject to clear rules of engagement.
Eleven years in the making at a cost of more than $50 million, the Active Denial System is still years from deployment. It weighs about 4 tons and consists largely of a big dish and antenna that are mounted on a Humvee multipurpose vehicle.
But researchers are hoping to miniaturize it, Karcher said. Air Force officials want to work with the prime contractor, the Raytheon Corp., to design a version that could be mounted on a military transport plane so its beam could cut a broader swath on a battlefield.
Once an operator has aimed the antenna using a scope, the press of a button sends out a column of millimeter-wave, electromagnetic energy at the speed of light. Pentagon officials say that the weapon's exact reach and its column size are classified, but that it can extend beyond the 550-meter effective range of bullets. Its intensity is the same at any distance.
Susan Levine, the Pentagon's project manager for the energy beam, said years of tests on humans and animals enabled researchers to establish a margin of safety. After several seconds, the device automatically shuts off to avoid burning its target, she said.
When the beam hits an individual, it penetrates 1/64th of an inch beneath the skin and heats water molecules to 130 degrees in less than a second.
"It tricks the pain sensors into thinking they're on fire," said Rich Garcia, a spokesman for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M.
Garcia knows firsthand. He was among hundreds of test volunteers, standing in a doorway with his back facing the device.
"They did a full body back shot," he said. "It hit in the small of my back first. For the first millisecond, it just felt like the skin was warming up. Then it got warmer and warmer and you felt like it was on fire."
He said he lunged out of the doorway.
"As soon as you're away from that beam your skin returns to normal and there is no pain," Garcia said. "I thought to myself, 'Why you wimp. You know it's not causing any damage. You'll be able to override it.' Each of the next three times, I was on there a little bit longer.
"The fourth one was the longest. It was about two seconds. It felt like my hair was on fire."
The beam easily penetrates clothing, he said, because clothes are porous, though a thin suit of armor would block it.
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Post by Lunaria on Jun 3, 2004 23:21:57 GMT -5
Wasn't it the scalar weapon that blew up Maldek and part of the Ashtar Command? Or am I thinking of something else?
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Post by Edward on Jun 4, 2004 11:33:37 GMT -5
Yes it was scalar wave technology that blew up the planet.
I'm thinking this might be one form of it. Or I could be wrong.
Love, peace and enlightenment,
Ed
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Post by Lunaria on Jun 4, 2004 11:39:50 GMT -5
Well, If you are right that is one dangerous puppy.
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Post by Nicole on Jun 11, 2004 12:51:16 GMT -5
If this was true scalar wave I don't think the subjects would have survived. Maybe they have tweaked it to be withstandable? It feels like it is something similar.
Love! Nicole
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Post by whitequeen on Jul 10, 2004 12:34:45 GMT -5
These lovely people have invented a variety of 'frequency' types of weapons. I don't believe for a Ny minute that they were invented for use in the military. After doing much research over the years I believe they will be freely used on innocent crowds right here in the good old USA as well as world wide to bring in the agenda of the NWO.
God help us all if we can't move into the higher realms and take the planet with us.
WQ
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Post by Lunaria on Jul 10, 2004 14:41:02 GMT -5
Raise your vibes to 9D and you will be out of range. ;D There are techniques for doing this. Recoding and pranic breathing. ;D
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Post by Edward on Sept 1, 2004 1:40:01 GMT -5
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Post by blueinwhite on Sept 3, 2004 10:55:27 GMT -5
Hi Ed!
I don't think there are reasons to be concerned about scalar wave technology here on Earth - even the first Tesla experiments revolved around scalar wave tech. but as far as I know some of the major destructive information regarding this were removed from Earth sphere so it can never be invented here..?
-with hopefully not too utopic visions of a balanced Earth future
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Post by Nicole on Sept 3, 2004 10:57:34 GMT -5
BlueinWhite,
Don't bet on it. We have freewill here to invent whatever we want.
Love and blessings, Nicole
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Post by blueinwhite on Sept 4, 2004 14:32:10 GMT -5
well I 'always' thought the blue race removed some in some way when they left and figured maybe free will included the ability to manipulate it in such a way? Although I must admit that some experiments look suspicious or could be used in a wrong way I guess, for instance the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program..
Also I have 'always' considered Maldek to have suffered from nuclear war and maybe the rioting people here in the 70's? were some souls from Maldek replaced here..
Wasn't it scalar wave that resulted in the destruction of Sirius B etc.?
-Mack the Misinformed? ;D aka BlueInWhite
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Post by Nicole on Sept 4, 2004 15:57:26 GMT -5
LOL Blueinwhite! It is my understanding that via freewill, we can do, invent, access, use, etc. whatever we want. The only way someone can prevent us from doing anything is when we willingly give up our freewill. And even then we can take it back when we get ready. So, what I'm saying is that yes, scalar wave has been "invented" and is being used here on this planet. But please keep in mind it can also be used for healing. It has many applications. Just like anything else, when "in the wrong hands" it can be dangerous. Love! Nicole
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