From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Date: Sat May 29 1999 - 15:45:23 MDT
At 10:45 AM 5/29/99 +0200, you wrote:
>
>From:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_342000/342188.stm
>Wednesday, May 12, 1999 Published at 18:11 GMT 19:11 UK
>
> Sci/Tech
>
> Set phasers on stun
>
> The gun is designed to zap its victim with an electric
> current, using a laser to carry the charge along a beam
> of ultraviolet light.
>
> The light particles, called photons, would create a path
> through the air that will be capable of conducting
> electricity up to a distance of about 100 metres (330
> feet).
In order to ionize the air in a column enough to carry a current strong
enough to be effective against a person the laser will need to be pretty
powerful in its' own right. How are they going to prevent the laser itself
from doing harm to the target? Powerful UV lasers make great hole drillers.
>From personal experience with the design of a stun gun of similar nature,
that usd a conductive liquid stream, I think this is a long shot as a
useable deterrent.
By the way - where is the return path for the stun beam? If it's through
the ground and back into the wielder's body, this could become a very
unpopular method of defense.
Chuck Kuecker
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