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RE: Heavy metal thunder!

Comment comment by gnifyus on 26 April 2008

Shooting wires into clouds.. sort of a high-tech Ben Franklin trick. But now I'm remembering a similar story where they (allegedly) attempted to create an IED zapper utilizing similar principles. (I notice the Ionatron link is defunct now; $30 million down the toilet.)

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RE: Heavy metal thunder! by NomadSoul :: NR5 :: on 27 April 2008

Yeah--in a way, a wire-trailing rocket isn't too different to a wire-trailing dart from a Taser weapon. An actual lightning gun would be awesome for numerous purposes, but alas, the days of real-life ray-guns seem far off at best. The trick with beating an IED though is knowing that it's there--unless they planned to just shoot every piece of road-side debris. But if an IED were hidden inside a car or something metallic, it's hard to see how the weapon would achieve the desired effect.

Naw, I still want the job shooting rockets into clouds with Metallica blaring in the background--Unleashing the power of the Gods!