>From: Jerry Wayne Decker <jwdatwork@yahoo.com>
>To: interact@keelynet.com
>Subject: Practical Phaser
>Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:15:08 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi Folks!
>
>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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