Theoretical WPAs from the world of fringe science.
Isomer, Hafnium, and induced gamma emission, all from Wikipedia
Hafnium bomb, from GlobalSecurity
Gamma-ray laser, from hafniumisomer.org
Gamma-ray weapons critique from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Newer and better ways to maim and kill, as repoted by NewScientist.
“A gun that fires variable speed bullets and which can be set to kill or to wound is being built by a US toy manufacturer. The weapon is based on technology used to control a toy rocket system.”
The Montauk Project, assorted links, with thanks to Hugh Gallagher.
Wikipedia:
“The Montauk Project was alleged to be a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing powerful psychological warfare weaponry.”
Wikipedia:
“Camp Hero(also known as Fort Hero or the Montauk Air Force Station) was a military base at Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.”
disinformation:
“You’ve got to love a story that is stranger than any fiction but claims to be the God’s honest truth. What could be more fabulously outrageous than the idea that your tax dollars have subsidized the demented experiments of an evil cabal of Navy brass, CIA shrinks, fugitive Nazis and Reptoid ETs?”
Yes, those are voices in your head, as reported by NewScientist.
“A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people’s heads.”
The disturbing and painful phenomenon of knowing that you have been targeted for harassment.
And assortment of sites related to Targeted Individuals, Electro Magnetic Attack, Voice to Skull, etc:
“Millions of people across this country and the globe are being targeted for harassment in various forms by a growing number of harassment groups. Citizens are being watched, followed, monitored and tortured; their private lives invaded, ruined, and many kept in virtual isolation from friends and family.”
“I, Thomas Daniel Clark, am writing this statement to request that congress and other agencies in the US and USA government check into and end all public, secret, super secret, shadow governmental programs, and agreements made by outsourcing, to use surveillance, mind control, directed energy weapons, chemical and nuclear technologies, weather control technologies, or any other type of technology and program which violates the constitutional rights and/or harms the health, happiness and privacy rights of any US and USA citizen, which includes myself, family and associates.”
“Tired of isolation? Looking to communicate with other Targeted Individuals?There are Millions of Victims out there. The trick is to find them!”
“Once charged the implants can output low frequencies that will transverse the interior of the body. The implants can also emit higher frequency which will migrate to the body’s surface and cause heating of the skin; this effect is often misunderstood and thought to be from the directed energy itself instead of from an internal source.”
The list of reasons to legalize it grows longer and sadder, as reported by the NY Times.
“ A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept Mexico over the last year and a half, gutting local police forces, terrifying citizens and making it almost impossible for the authorities to assert themselves.”
Just plain wondefully strange, as reported by the NY Times.
“The chemicals are kept apart in the plant tissue, but when the tissues are crushed (as when bitten by an insect) they mix and toxic mustard oil is produced.”
Stronger that steel, as reported by the Word Tribune.
“Last year, a sample of the ApNano material was subjected to tests in which a steel projectile traveling at a speed of up to 1.5 kilometers per second slammed into the material.”
Stupid, dangerous people who hang around together, as reported by Foreign Policy
“The gang got its start as a prison-league soccer team, but today the PCC’s word is law in São Paulo prisons, and if an inmate thinks otherwise, he might just lose his head—literally.”
Why it’s best served cold, as reported by NewScientist.
“A lust for vengeance may be hardwired into the male brain. Scans of brain activity suggest that men experience greater satisfaction than women in seeing cheaters get their comeuppance – at least when the punishment is physical.”
They don’t eat brains, as reported by NewScientist.
“In a landmark court case, a US man has pleaded guilty to hijacking more than 400,000 computers and using them to attack commercial websites and bombard internet users with spam email and pop-up ads.”
Another reason I like cash money and paper and pencils, as reported by NewScientist.
“As the world waited for one computer virus to strike on Friday, another wriggled its way into the Russian stock exchange and knocked it offline.”
Impact armor for skiers, as reported by NewScientist.
“A futuristic flexible material that instantly hardens into armour upon impact will protect US and Canadian skiers from injury on the slalom runs at this year’s Winter Olympics.”
How the Great Shark Rebellion will begin, as reported by physorg.com.
(seriously, has no one but me ever seen “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes”?)
“In the United States a team funded by the military has created a neural probe that can manipulate a shark’s brain signals or decode them. More controversially, the Pentagon hopes to use remote-controlled sharks as spies.”
Why things that work are cool, as reported by NewScientist.
“Realising it would be some time before the ambulance arrived, Johnson opened a packet of sand-like material and poured it into the wound. Within seconds the bleeding had practically stopped, and the man survived. “The medic told me that had I not put the substance in there, the guy would probably have bled out and died,” he says.”
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How Barry Bonds’ records will be crushed, as reported by Physorg.com.
“The new muscles simultaneously function as fuel cells and muscles, according to Baughman, corresponding author of the Science article. A catalyst-containing carbon nanotube electrode is used in one described muscle type as a fuel cell electrode to convert chemical energy to electrical energy, as a supercapacitor electrode to store this electrical energy and as a muscle electrode to transform this electrical energy to mechanical energy.”
Cyborg bugs. No, really, cyborg bugs, as reported by BBC News.
“The idea is to insert micro-systems at the pupa stage, when the insects can integrate them into their body, so they can be remotely controlled later.”
How we planned to save ourselves, as reported by the NY Times.
“City workers were conducting a regular structural inspection of the bridge last Wednesday when they came across the cold-war-era hoard of water drums, medical supplies, paper blankets, drugs and calorie-packed crackers — an estimated 352,000 of them, sealed in dozens of watertight metal canisters and, it seems, still edible.”
Androids on deck, as reported by NewScientist.
“The computer chip is capable of receiving signals from more than 16,000 mammalian brain cells, and sending messages back to several hundred cells. Previous neuron-computer interfaces have either connected to far fewer individual neurons, or to groups of neurons clumped together.”