A recent post to the freenrg list spoke of a Star Trek
like phaser which was patented in 1997. It is claimed
to be non-lethal and paralyzes without pain.
I thought the use of the specific UV frequency of 193
nm interesting as establishing an invisible wire of
light throught the air, from the transmitter to the
target wherein an electrical current could be
imparted, was an interesting point that might have
other uses.
The patent is;
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=pall&s1=herr&s2=tetanizing&OS=herr+AND+tetanizing&RS=herr+AND+tetanizing
and the article posted at freenrg is;
--- Caigan wrote:
> Psy-Kosh wrote:
> >
> > Gee, this looks familiar:
> >
>
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/05/09/stiinnnws02007.html?19023
>
> Here's the old link:
> http://www.sddt.com/files/library/98/04/20/tbz.html
>
> New Laser Puts More Authority Behind The Command,
> "Freeze!"
> By CHRISTINA JOHNSON - johnson@sddt.com
> San Diego Daily Transcript April 20, 1998
>
> And here's an old interview:
> Source: National Public Radio's "Talk of the
> Nation: Science Friday"
> Broadcast over: KGOU/KROU
> in Norman, Oklahoma & Harrah, Oklahoma
> 106.3 and 105.7 FM
>
> Friday, July 24, 1998
> 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. central standard time
>
> IRA FLAYTO <sp?> (host): I want to bring on someone
> else now who wrote
> me a
> letter. He comes from HSV Technologies in San
> Diego, and he wrote me a
> letter. I won't read the whole letter to you, just
> the relevant part.
> It
> says, "Dear Mr. Flayto..." It talks about the "Star
> Trek" television
> series, and he talks about the phaser weapon. And
> he says, "It is now
> possible to manufacture a completely non-lethal
> beam weapon to
> supplement
> and perhaps replace firearms." And he sent me his
> patent. He has
> patented
> a phaser weapon, and his name is Eric Herr, and he
> is the inventor and
> Vice
> President of HSV Technologies in San Diego. He is
> on the phone now from
> San Diego. Welcome to the program.
>
> ERIC HERR: Thank you for having me on.
>
> FLAYTO: Give us a thumbnail sketch for folks who
> don't know. Describe
> this new device you have.
>
> HERR: First of all, I have to say we don't have a
> working prototype
> because such would be beyond our means at about
> $200,000. However we
> have
> conducted some very successful tests at a local
> university. The phaser
> weapon uses what is known as tetany, or
> tetanization, to immobilize a
> person. This is the stimulation of muscle tissue by
> a very weak
> electric
> current. It is, in fact, a near-exact replication
> of the normal neural
> pulse that contracts muscles and is imperceptible.
> It cannot be felt...
> unlike the taser or a stun gun pulse.
>
> FLAYTO: So it's a real beam that you shoot out with
> this weapon?
>
> HERR: That's right.
>
> FLAYTO: And it hits you in some muscle somewhere
> and causes you to
> freeze?
>
> HERR: That's correct.
>
> FLAYTO: And stuns you?
>
> HERR: That's right.
>
> FLAYTO: And is it harmful... the beam itself, is it
> harmful if it would
> hit you in the eye or anything like that?
>
> HERR: No, not at all. Not at all.
>
> FLAYTO: So it's basically what... an ultraviolet
> laser?
>
> HERR: That's correct. The ultraviolet beam,
> specifically at 193
> nanometers, ionizes molecular oxygen in the air,
> creates a wire, as it
> were, through the air to conduct this current. The
> current is very
> weak.
> It's only 20 milliamps.
>
> FLAYTO: And how big a device is this now/
>
> HERR: Right now, the laser that would be used is
> about the size of a
> small
> suitcase or typewriter case.
>
> FLAYTO: It's not this little hand-held device.
>
> HERR: No, not yet. But we're working on that.
>
> FLAYTO: Has anybody, law enforcement people, shown
> any interest in it?
>
> HERR: Very, very much. Everyone is interested in
> it. Especially...
> there
> is a federal bureau called OLETC - the Office of Law
> Enforcement
> Technology
> Commercialization - which has shown great interest.
>
> FLAYTO: And does it have adjustable setting, you
> know, for stun...
>
> HERR: That's right.
>
> FLAYTO: ...kill, whatever... that sort of things on
> it?
>
> HERR: Well, I didn't invent this to do harm to
> people. It could be
> lethal
> if one increased the current about 200 times and
> held it on the person's
> chest for five or ten minutes. But otherwise, no,
> it is quite harmless.
>
> FLAYTO: Let me bring on my other guest. Jeff
> Greenwald, did you want
> to
> ask a question?
>
> JEFF GREENWALD: I just wanted to make the point
> that if it can be
> lethal,
> eventually it will be lethal. Just that cheery
> optimistic note about
> the
> weapon.
>
> HERR: Well, you see, it would be much more
> economical just to shoot a
> person with an ordinary bullet. This device... the
> cheapest laser
> available now is about $35,000. Not too many people
> can afford that.
>
> FLAYTO: Lawrence Kraus?
>
> LAWRENCE KRAUS: In one sense, things like the
> phaser, of course, in
> "Star
> Trek" are realistic because particle beam weapons of
> one sort or another
> -
> whether it be light photons, ultraviolet, X-rays or
> actual particle
> beams -
> have been discussed and I'm sure will be used. The
> thing that is sort
> of
> unrealistic with the phaser, of course, is the fact
> that you could turn
> it
> not just to "stun" but sometimes to "vaporize,"
> depending upon the
> episode.
> And there the energetics are such that I once
> calculates that if you
> wanted to vaporize the average human being, the
> energy released would be
> something like a 1,100 megaton nuclear weapon
> explosion. So it
> wouldn't
> be what we would call environmentally safe right
> now.
>
> FLAYTO: But Eric, you could stop a car with this or
> something?
>
> HERR: By using a stronger current, a single,
> high-amperage pulse, yes.
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