I was really hoping this was going to be about some new bean bag weapon.

Makh: Wow, we are catching up to Nicola Tesla.

/When do we get inductive charging for everything?

Never, if the high-tension-wire brigade ever catch wind of how
it really works.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to ban inductive cooktops yet.

Friends of mine bought their mother a microwave oven for a gift, oh so many
moons ago - she demanded they take it back, saying "well, those microwaves
have to go somewhere!"

/CSB

So Obama is gonna kill with lightning now instead of drones? Maybe he is God afterall

publikenemy: So Obama is gonna kill with lightning now instead of drones? Maybe he is God afterall

I think he's the Emperor, myself.

blatz514: Ride the lightening?

it happened to my kitty and elvis was part of it

Link

/appropriate

The Marines have had this for years.

Fano: [tesladownunder.com image 600x399]

Image of last testing

DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!

but the pulse only lasts for two-trillionths of a second," Fischer said.

I can relate.

Reveille! Reveille! Reveille! Drop your cocks and grab your socks! Today is Sunday! Divine worship at zero-eight-hundred! Get your bunks made and get your robes and wizard hats on.

They're gonna need a lot of priests.

How you can be certain that, sooner or later, this'll be a well-established technology:

"We never got tired of the lightning bolts zapping our simulated (targets)," said George Fischer, lead scientist on the project at the U.S. Army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Raiden wins. Flawless victory.

RexTalionis: [upload.wikimedia.org image 200x288]
Anyone remember this obscure Batman villain?

Never saw the comics, but he had an awesome Batman:TAS episode.

How the hell can we have almost thirty comments with not a single link to this video?

Fallout3 did it.

Will a Class III permit cover Plasma guns?

But can they cast magic missle at the darkness?

Approves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVzEfR6wL70

AHHHH i've been waiting for this tech! I've always wanted a lightning gun. Specifically as a way to get rid of noxious birds(starlings). Just zap 'em right off the telephone line!

The_Sponge: bmr68: Will a Class III permit cover Plasma guns?


Yes, but only plasma rifles in the 40 watt range.

Only what you see, pal.

Ctrl-Alt-Del: How the hell can we have almost thirty comments with not a single link to this video?

What the fark am I watching?

Hey....not to say this hasn't been thought through already, but back in the mid 90's I had an email exchange with a professor of engineering at MIT. I had a thought that if I used a laser to "burn" a hole in the air, it would make it easier for an electron beam to follow behind it. Air distorts most energy weapons, and if I could push the air out of the way by heating if for a fraction of a second, I could make a steerable electron beam. I guess good ideas just get developed. Glad to see my idea works.

bmr68: Will a Class III permit cover Plasma guns?

Just what you see, pal.

Ok, so it's not the set of balls hanging off the tip of a cock that the marines were prototyping.

amd1433: [db2.stb.s-msn.com image 350x350]

Came for this...leaving happy.

/oblig

miss diminutive: [gatherer.wizards.com image 223x310]

The US army is going mono red?

Heh. I had a direct damage red deck. Didn't do very well, but it was funny sending lightning bolts and fireballs and meteor showers every turn.

Cue the ghost busters...

Having been on the receiving end of a static discharge from a CH-47 Chinook, this is going to hurt MUCH worse.

America has committed to being the biggest bad ass on the block for now and in the future.

So, they're testing before attempting to use it in combat? It's more fun to do it the spark way:



See if the Foglios are cool with hot links.

If not: Comic

Kimbra knows force lightning.