Silv, if this thing was at all real, it'd be on an actual fucking news program and some US marines would probably be involved. That is, if the guy hadn't pre-emptively used the device to deactive all the military's vehicles in order to protect his terrible invention.G.Silver wrote:I was thinking about this a little more and maybe it's just me, but considering this is a weapon so powerful that apparently just waving it around haphazardly could potentially knock planes or missiles out of the sky, doesn't $40,000 for development--in Canadian dollars even--seem a little low? Maybe I'm just used to the US military where we spend that much on toilet seats and the French are more frugal with their francs (err, euros), if I had someone about to supply me with a weapon prototype like that (and I had seen a "convincing" demonstration) I'd be paying the guy a lot more than that, if only to keep him from selling it to some other guy. Wouldn't you think?
The whole concept doesn't even make sense. If this thing can 'see through' stuff, where does it, per se, draw the line? When you shine it on a wall does it keep going through the next wall or can you see what's behind that too? Does it keep going through space forever, creating a big blank spot at whatever you point it at? Like you say: what was inside his hand that meant the veins and bones inside could be seen but not the flesh surrounding it? Are his bones made of lead? Oh, wait, the thing SEES THROUGH LEAD.
