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March 09, 2007
Question of the day:
Why can't we just kill our enemies?
Electromagnetic Personnel Interdiction Control, or "EPIC"
The idea is that intense radio-frequency emissions – capable of passing through walls – would be used to temporarily disrupt the balance and coordination functions of targets' inner ears, knocking them down relatively harmlessly.
The Navy notes that "second order effects would be extreme motion sickness," suggesting that in fact the order given by future Captain Kirks may be "set phasers on 'puke'".
Our enemies try to kill us and we try to make them puke.
The intention of the programme is to avoid unnecessary harm to the target, but unconscious vomiting would seem to present something of a choking hazard.
Oh, the horrors of war.
Posted by LindaSoG at March 9, 2007 12:52 PM
Comments
Well, Linda, there's a couple of ways of looking at this. If the "targets" were all killed, you and I would be very pleased, but what about the specialists who extract information out of unwilling subjects? These guys would be cut out of the loop. I rather enjoy the thought of Khalid Sheikh Dunghead being "interviewed" for the past several years.
The grave's a good place for our enemies, but too good for some of them.
Just a thought.
Posted by: Kevin M at March 9, 2007 01:51 PM
A "choking hazard?" Why am I not surprised to read this given how we've become such pansy-asses regarding the killing of bad and evil people.
Now we can't even shoot them. Hell, we can't even lob missiles into houses where terrorists are hiding for fear of killing innocent civilians. And now we have to be concerned about them choking on their own vomit?
We are doomed.
Posted by: vilmar at March 10, 2007 07:20 AM
It's been said that fences make good neighbors, but what if the neighbors ignore that fence? Like Mexico does.
Those philosophers that couch reality in PC terms need to spend a few nights outside alone in the jungle to get a grasp on reality. Every thing out there is out to kill you and there is only one way to protect yourself, it's kill or be killed, by any means at hand. It certainly isn't virtual reality, with the real lessons you can't get by having your head plugged in to a walkman and playing your gameboy whilst your butt is safely inside a warm protected cocoon bought at someone else's expense.
We focus too much on collateral damage when collateral damage just might be the tool that turns the populace against harboring the terrorist. I ask one question, since when has the Moslem cared about your collateral damage? Get Some!!!!
BTW Thanks Linda, I've noticed a very positive change in the preview, awesome!!!
Posted by: Jack at March 10, 2007 12:09 PM