Airman Injured In Heat-Beam Test!

All I want to know is, Where I can get one?...Watch out ants here I come...

[edit on 4/6/2007 by digitalassassin]

Seems most think that this machine is to be used in Bagdad or in some other land. When I look at that machine all I can see is it being used on US soil against its own citizens. When martial law comes so will those machines! So if you are heading out for a protest against the US government bring your sun screen!!

Originally posted by PLUMBER1
When I look at that machine all I can see is it being used on US soil against its own citizens. When martial law comes so will those machines!

You mean the US of A isn't under martial law? Jeez! I thought they were, what with Dubya running riot all over and stomping on everything including the Congress!

Whoa! Get the Heat Beamer out. We gotta take on the Democrats, lol!!

But hey, keep the darn thingie away from Dick Cheney. This guy is dangerous!!

Cheers!

[edit on 7-4-2007 by mikesingh]

Mike, here is a way to defend against the heat beam. If you are a soldier or a citizen in the field take out your aluminum foil body blanket the kind used by fire fighters to deflect or I should say reflect the heat waves during a forest fire. Covering the entire body with the blanket will deflect the heat waves.

This blanket only cost a few dollars and could save your life even if we have a shock wave from the sun. Believe it or not I always carry a reflective light weight blanket in my glove compartment it only takes up 1/2 the space of a wallet and it is folded neatly for quick useage.

This same principle is used by the NASA in the lining of the space suits and when the Eagle landed on the Moon it was drapped in foil to protect it against radiant heat.

What do the instructions tell us when we buy a microwave oven. Do not put metal or aluminum into microwave and if you do you know what happens sparks will fly. Rik Riley





[edit on 7-4-2007 by rikriley]

Originally posted by rikriley
Mike, here is a way to defend against the heat beam. If you are a soldier in the field take out your aluminum foil body blanket the kind used by fire fighters to deflect the waves. Covering the entire body with the blanket will deflect the waves.

But, Rik, how the devil would I get to know when to don the alum blanket? That darn weapon could be fired from a concealed position and then.....Zap!! I'm toast!

Mike, carry it in your back pocket it takes seconds to unfold and cover your body. Firefighters who are over taken by wild fires have seconds to cover their body to survive.

More than likely you would be knowledgeable about termoil or war in a certain area and you would be more than likely to be prepared. In war there is no perfect solution expect the unexpected. Be sure to hit the ground if device is pointed your way with reflective cover encompassing your entire body. This makes for less direct hit and the ground is not a good conductor more of an insulator if it is not wet. Rik Riley

[edit on 7-4-2007 by rikriley]

There are a few holes in your clever plan.

First, it's not a "heat beam".

Second, you won't have time to get your tin-foil suit on. This thing feels sort of like having boiling water thrown on you. You might make a sort of abortive grab for your pocket before you start doing the safety dance at 78 rpm. IIRC the world record for voluntarily standing in it without running was something like 4 seconds.

Third, if you're in a crowd, I don't really think you're going to have the ability to unfold your mylar blanky before you're trampled, much less carefully spread it over you.

Fourth, the wavelength of this is only about 3mm, so any BB sized hole in your cover and parts of you will burn, leading you to doing the funky chicken inside your Fortress of Reynolds Wrap and tearing it to bits. I'd say the likelihood of you being able to cocoon yourself into a Faraday shield with your blanky is zero, especially while you're being toasted.

Fifth, your feet. If you're going to make a getaway, you won't be able to protect your feet by cocooning them. And one of the ways you train to use it on crowds is to point it down and heat up their toesies - and sweep, sweep, sweep them back.

Tom, I would think using a huge square umbrella that covered your entire body as well as your feet could divert heat energy. The square large umbrella could be released in less than a second directed toward the heat beam. The umbrella would be made of radiant barrier with milar insert sandwiched between thin aluminum foil covering. This would reflect up to 90% of the radiant heat emitted by the heat-beam. Being square would help protect your feet leaving no gap to reach your feet and head as you croutched down. Rik Riley

[edit on 7-4-2007 by rikriley]

Originally posted by rikriley
Tom, I would think using a huge square umbrella that covered your entire body as well as your feet could divert heat energy. The square large umbrella could be released in less than a second directed toward the heat beam. The umbrella would be made of radiant barrier with milar insert sandwiched between thin aluminum foil covering. This would reflect up to 90% of the radiant heat emitted by the heat-beam. Being square would help protect your feet leaving no gap to reach your feet and head as you croutched down. Rik Riley

Well, like I said, it's not a "heat beam" - it's a 95GHz 30kW radio transmitter on a Humvee (in the current design..they're upping that to 100kW) with a good bit of antenna gain.

You might find it possible to keep it off you to some extent with your umbrella, but you have to remember that the guy behind you has one as well...and your butt is going to be toasted by the reflections. You're also going to be getting reflections off of the buildings near you if any, and diffraction over the top of your umbrella.

The "no gap" with the feet is not going to be true in all cases either, remember you only need a few spots about the size of a BB and it will be getting in to some extent. And if you're on concrete, you are on a nice spacer standing above a metal reflecting mesh. No matter if you get it flat on the ground without a gap, they can light you up by bouncing it off the rebar. And one or two seconds worth and you'll be dropping the umbrella and running.

Last but not least if the conductive lining in your umbrella isn't as conductive as you might like, it's going to start burning through like a CD in a microwave.

You're going to need a "Positive-Negative Man" sort of outfit, I'm afraid, or the Emma Peel Full Body Tinfoil Hat as seen here:

Tom, if they want you they will get you no matter what including running you over with the Humvee. The military you hope will use this heat-beam against enemies but if any one is deemed enemy of the state or insighting a riot including organized civilians they are toast. Rik Riley

Originally posted by rikriley
Tom, if they want you they will get you no matter what including running you over with the Humvee. The military you hope will use this heat-beam against enemies but if any one is deemed enemy of the state or insighting a riot including organized civilians they are toast. Rik Riley

Seriously though, it's not like someone is going to be shooting you with VMADS because you're an enemy of the state. I mean, it's sort of nuts to think the Army's going to roll some huge piece of diesel-generator powered crowd control equipment up your street to toast you in your sleep or something.

They'll just bust your door in and cap you. It's a lot cheaper and quicker.

A 9mm slug is insanely less expensive than burning you with a laser from a plane, or using a PIKL, PEP or Ionatron on you. That's real Star Wars dramatic but the truth is, a 5 cent cartridge gets the job done just as well.