This WILL be used to kill and cause permanent damage to people. Often. Mark my words. [View all]

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They'll work on it and solve its problems. Because it's beautifully evil, and they won't allow such a wonderful thing to remain unpractical for much longer.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/pain-ray-shot

Video: I Got Blasted by the Pentagon’s Pain Ray — Twice
By Spencer Ackerman

QUANTICO, Virginia — One moment it’s a chilly afternoon. But as I learned, in the very next moment, and without warning, your chest and neck feel like they’ve gotten a blast of unbearable steam heat.

That’s because of an imposing device the U.S. military calls the Active Denial System. It’s an energy weapon, commonly known as the “Pain Ray,” that turns electricity into millimeter wave radio frequency. And heat. Lots of heat.

The military wants it to burn suspicious people who might pose a threat to a base. Yet the Active Denial System has never fired a millimeter wave in anger, despite 15 years in development. On a crisp Friday afternoon, however, the military wants the Active Denial System to burn a different target. Me.

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When the signal goes out over radio to shoot me, there’s no warning — no flash, no smell, no sound, no round. Suddenly my chest and neck feel like they’ve been exposed to a blast furnace, with a sting thrown in for good measure. I’m getting blasted with 12 joules of energy per square centimeter, in a fairly concentrated blast diameter. I last maybe two seconds of curiosity before my body takes the controls and yanks me out of the way of the beam.