Boing Boing: US Navy developing powerful "vomit beam"

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

US Navy developing powerful "vomit beam"

Me, I just load up an Ann Coulter phoneme when I feel the urge to involuntarily purge. But Noah Shachtman of Danger Room writes:

The Navy is sinking money in a radio-frequency weapon that shoots an invisible wall-penetrating beam, making people so dizzy, they fall over. The company researching the device is touting it as a "Star Trek hand-held Phaser Weapon set on 'Stun.'" But it looks like the thing could be set on "puke," too. "Second order" effects on the radio-frequency beam include "extreme motion sickness" and vomit. Your tax dollars, hard at work.

Link.

Reader comment: Ken Hansen says,

I read with interest your post on the Army's "Puke Wave" machine, and it immediately reminded me of a favorite Kate Bush song, Experiment IV, about a song that could kill someone: Link, and Lyrics.
There was also a routine, I forget who it was, maybe Woody Allen, about a government lab where they were working on a joke that could kill, but it had to be handled very carefully - no one could know the whole joke, they would fall over dead... Sorry, I don't have a citation for that one...

iain says,

The government lab where a joke was so funny it would kill you was by Monty Python.
YouTube: video link. Script: Link.

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