Re: Production & Ejection of Ball Lightning

Hexslinger ( hexslngr@internet-frontier.net )
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 02:18:11 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Jerry W. Decker wrote:

> Hi Gary!
>
> You wrote;
> > The old air blaster toy wasn't actually "pumped" up.
>
> You know, the trick is to have an incredibly strong air pulse dumped
> through this hole at high velocity, maybe a steel disc with a large hole
> in it, like the barrel of a gun, but with a plate on the end having the
> hole.
>
> Better yet, this could be the next non-lethal weapon, knocking holes
> through boards, heck, it would make a neat weapon...just push or throw
> someone or something to the ground with user selectable degrees of
> force....of course, nowadays with guns everywhere, we also need the
> Hurwitch 'center of gravity' distorter so the guns can fire at you.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The WHAT? Who's Hurwitch, Jerry? Gotta admit that the idea of using the
so-called 'wave gun' or 'vortex gun' (or whatever neat-o term you wish to
describe it) to attempt to form 'ball lightning' is an exciting prospect.
Not just because it's a good idea -- but because it sounds like something
that's in a radio-shack budget... haven't seen many projects within the
radio-shack budget range in awhile. :)