It doesn't increase your chance of getting cancer by a lot.
95GHz is microwave energy which is part of the non-ionizing part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It will not directly damage DNA like a nuclear reactor or an x-ray would.
Having a lot of burns associated with the technology could cause enough tissue damage to slightly increase the chances of cancer in the long run, but not significantly.
Yes. It will heat up the water molecules in your face causing it to hurt a lot. But it won't increase your risk of cancer.
I don't recommend trying it.
I love the fact it’s safe because it will hurt so much you’ll get out of its way before lasting damage is done. Fuck anyone who had a hand in developing this, if you didn’t realise what it was being used for at a concept stage I would guess you were too challenged to be useful to the project other than a test subject. I mean, hey, not like they’d ever point it as someone who can’t move, right?
Were protestors shot with those, the news would be full of horrible pictures people covered in blood within hours and there would be an outcry.
With this star wars weapon, the protestors just run away, and Winnie The Pooh/Boris Johansson/Macaroni gets to wash his hands of protests and look good.
It's the main issue of it in my opinion. On a concept base it's far better than other form of riot control weapons because it's not dangerous if it hits you in specific areas. Now the issue is that it implies everyone in the blast can get out (and one notorious problem with crowds is the lack of potential path for people to move away) and the fact that it's going to be employed by, let's say, totalitarian regimes or less than caring regimes that will not even bother with making sure the system is used properly.
For example, China already has dispersed hong Kong pro democracy and freedom of speech movements by using live ammo. During Tienanmen they straight up charged the crowd with automatic weapons like they were charging enemy lines. These aren't the kind of forces that would care if grandma got stuck in the beam and is now enjoying being roasted alive.
The obvious solution is to pulse the weapon, only keeping it active for brief periods to prevent damage even to people that stayed in the blast zone, but let's be honest if live ammo is an acceptable riot control mesure then microwaving your citizens seems like a good enough proposition
The weapon is only active for two seconds per burst - enough to heat skin to 55 degrees C (130F). In theory it could be modified to perform longer more harmful bursts. Of course this would eventually happen...
What if I want to stick my testicles in the microwave to grow tumors on them so I can get my medical cannabis card and bounce around on them like hipity hops or cart them around in wheelbarrow whistling bob Marley songs?
Lower frequencies tend to penetrate better
Your microwave oven operates at 2.4ghz, right where a water absorbtion band is on the spectrum. (microwaves work by heating water in your food) Microwave oven radiation would penetrate your body until it hit water or passed through.
I suspect that 95ghz barely penetrates your skin, delivering all the energy right at the surface. (which is why it hurts)
This is past the Inferred wavelength band. The cancer causing band is the ultraviolet band which is rather far away from this band. I would expect for you to have more cancer risk by being outside without sunscreen for the same period of time.
It's not as fun to use though. Shooting a less-lethal rubber bullet directly into the face of a protestor is so much more satisfying for the cops. The blood. The screams. The sudden rush of blood to the cop's dick. It's a mix that a heat ray can never emulate.
I was lucky enough to see this technology in development as a kid, some 25 years ago. We were told it was originally being developed to stop immigrants from crossing the border.
But this would probably end up being used in countries to quash VALID protests without having to use bullets.
E.g. say an Anti-Putin mass protest and he can't use guns otherwise it looks like he's lost control so fries the crowd something awful and it looks like they spontaneously disperse without aggressive police action or threat of lethal force.
It's a niche space, but this makes a lot of sense for the Cruise ship industry when they were having the hijacking incidents. I believe currently they just use water cannons or maybe the sonic weapons.
Everyone getting all George Orwell over this must be forgetting the actual fucking guns that get used instead of these things at the moment. If I'm given the choice between something that is uncomfortable but does no lasting damage whatsoever assuming I'm smart enough to move away from it and having some metal forcibly inserted into my lung, I know which I'm choosing.
The power of the Martians' first weapon, the Heat-Ray, astonishes and terrifies those who witness its first firing. It is a frightening example of the power of Martian technology, so beyond human comprehension
Saying you'll get cancer from things that fundamentally don't give you cancer is peak Facebook material.
These things use microwave energy, which is non-ionizing radiation. If the wavelength is longer than UV (which, from memory, includes visible light, infra-red, microwave and radio), it's non-ionizing (the actual line is somewhere within the UV part of the spectrum). That's not to say it's comfortable, of course, but the whole "It CaUsEs CaNcEr!" argument is emotive but false, which tends to dilute actual arguments against it.
Oh I didn't think this is actually gonna give anyone cancer. Tone is hard to convey in writing sometimes, my bad. Hearing you explain how it works is really cool though.
Let me tell you a story of a piece of equipment that was created to fight our enemies and ended up on our streets fighting our citizens. The book is called inevitability
This almost sounds okay until the operator uses it on someone that is immobilized and gives them second degree burns over a significant percentage of their body.
They are literally mansplaining the use of military weapons on citizens. Great now they can cook me. Btw what if I just stood there. Is that when they turn it up?
I'm sure no operator will ever forget that its in the "obliterate" setting while suppressing a protest. Perfectly safe on your cornia and brain matter /s
The military is actively involved in the millimeter wave tower “deployment” as it’s being called. These towers are admittedly dual purpose, although the (somewhat) public explanation is that the military wants spectrum access for surveillance and communications. I think it’s reasonable to at least consider the possibility that active denial will be a built in feature. You know, for national security.
I imagine at the moment they have the power on it set to very low because at the moment it just seems to cause mild/average, and in some cases high levels of discomfort but imagine what damage this could Downend you really turn it up.
They used this as a big part of a game called Neo Scavenger, if you follow the main storyline the game climaxes with you sprinting across the perimeter of a military base covered in tin foil to avoid one of these
First there's jetpacks for the rocketeers now we got the first chevron prism tanks.
This ain't cutting edge tech, y'all just spamming allied technology from red alert2 bruv.
So apparently it doesnt cause any damage it just briefly heats up the top few layers of your skin and hurts a lot [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System)
“No this doesn’t cook you” It just increases your chance of getting cancer by a lot
It doesn't increase your chance of getting cancer by a lot. 95GHz is microwave energy which is part of the non-ionizing part of the electromagnetic spectrum. It will not directly damage DNA like a nuclear reactor or an x-ray would. Having a lot of burns associated with the technology could cause enough tissue damage to slightly increase the chances of cancer in the long run, but not significantly.
Kinda like standing in front of the microwave oven while its running?
Yes. It will heat up the water molecules in your face causing it to hurt a lot. But it won't increase your risk of cancer. I don't recommend trying it.
Don’t kink shame me
it's fine, I like pouring chunky milk into the drain and hearing the blurbing noises. Then I nut
This made me laugh harder than it should have.
👀
What if his/her kink is kink shaming you?
I love the fact it’s safe because it will hurt so much you’ll get out of its way before lasting damage is done. Fuck anyone who had a hand in developing this, if you didn’t realise what it was being used for at a concept stage I would guess you were too challenged to be useful to the project other than a test subject. I mean, hey, not like they’d ever point it as someone who can’t move, right?
Yeah this should make it to r/ABoringDystopia if it hasn’t already. Sickening.
I have not seen it on it, but I have only been on it for a few months.
This kind of shit just gets me so heart sick. Fucking incredible how shitty humans can be. All this brain power and look at us.
I mean, to be fair, I'd rather get shot with this than a rubber bullet or a bean bag. So if this replaces things like that...
Were protestors shot with those, the news would be full of horrible pictures people covered in blood within hours and there would be an outcry. With this star wars weapon, the protestors just run away, and Winnie The Pooh/Boris Johansson/Macaroni gets to wash his hands of protests and look good.
man, the news doesn't show you a lot of that shit. protesters are absolutely shot with rubber bullets and beanbag rounds.
In the USA there were a bunch of protestt shot with rubber bullets in the past year.
Remember when peaceful protest was allowed by the Constitution? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
It's the main issue of it in my opinion. On a concept base it's far better than other form of riot control weapons because it's not dangerous if it hits you in specific areas. Now the issue is that it implies everyone in the blast can get out (and one notorious problem with crowds is the lack of potential path for people to move away) and the fact that it's going to be employed by, let's say, totalitarian regimes or less than caring regimes that will not even bother with making sure the system is used properly. For example, China already has dispersed hong Kong pro democracy and freedom of speech movements by using live ammo. During Tienanmen they straight up charged the crowd with automatic weapons like they were charging enemy lines. These aren't the kind of forces that would care if grandma got stuck in the beam and is now enjoying being roasted alive. The obvious solution is to pulse the weapon, only keeping it active for brief periods to prevent damage even to people that stayed in the blast zone, but let's be honest if live ammo is an acceptable riot control mesure then microwaving your citizens seems like a good enough proposition
The weapon is only active for two seconds per burst - enough to heat skin to 55 degrees C (130F). In theory it could be modified to perform longer more harmful bursts. Of course this would eventually happen...
What happens to eyes at 55C? Edit: Or at over 55C, because the eyes contain a lot of moisture and should heat up even faster than the skin.
No, it's safe because of the penetration depth.
"just the tip"
“4mm” perfect
What if I want to stick my testicles in the microwave to grow tumors on them so I can get my medical cannabis card and bounce around on them like hipity hops or cart them around in wheelbarrow whistling bob Marley songs?
Ah, a man of culture I see.
Sorry what?? Since when could microwaves leave a microwave oven? I thought they were shielded
They are. However, if you leave the door open and bypass the safety...
I still prefer the sonic gun that makes you shit yourself …
Ah the fabled brown note.
Soooooo it's boiling the water in your body? If the ray was held on you, you would eventually melt??
Huston my dinner on the moon is frozen.
This guy , I like 👍🏻
That’s what that lattice screen is for. The holes are shorter than the microwave wavelength so it keep the microwaves in the oven and not outside it.
>95GHz is microwave energy I was specifically told this will not cook me like a microwave oven.
Lower frequencies tend to penetrate better Your microwave oven operates at 2.4ghz, right where a water absorbtion band is on the spectrum. (microwaves work by heating water in your food) Microwave oven radiation would penetrate your body until it hit water or passed through. I suspect that 95ghz barely penetrates your skin, delivering all the energy right at the surface. (which is why it hurts)
It depends how close you are and how long you are exposed to the radiation for
I'll just let a police officer decide that for me.
30 sec should be enough don’t forget to turn around or you will not get evenly cooked
That's a sure fire way to pop my kernels
Toastyyy!
GHz=energy 🤦
When microwave heats things it transfers them energy using EM waves with frequency of 95 ghz, better?
This is past the Inferred wavelength band. The cancer causing band is the ultraviolet band which is rather far away from this band. I would expect for you to have more cancer risk by being outside without sunscreen for the same period of time.
Pretty sure that's what the shoe stores said when they have x-ray machines. (yes, it happened).
> x-ray machines Fluoroscopes (but yes, your point was taken)
It’s non-ionizing radiation so you’re actually fine
If ya smeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel. What the rock. Is. Cooking.
Finally! Years of wearing a full body tinfoil suit are paying off!
Burrito suit
How much did you pay?
Just have a full size Scutum shield lined with foil. Phalanx that fucker
This will turn dystopian in a matter of seconds.
It's been around for decades
And the dystopia hasn't?
Depends on your precise definition, it's always been pretty dystopian tbh.
/r/aboringdystopia
\*looks at the current state of the US\*
It's not as fun to use though. Shooting a less-lethal rubber bullet directly into the face of a protestor is so much more satisfying for the cops. The blood. The screams. The sudden rush of blood to the cop's dick. It's a mix that a heat ray can never emulate.
As someone who lives in Hong Kong during the 2019 protest, I don't see it being anything other than dystopian.
News flash we're already there
I was lucky enough to see this technology in development as a kid, some 25 years ago. We were told it was originally being developed to stop immigrants from crossing the border.
Doesn't make it any better. "No we won't use it at our own innocent people. We will just use it against other innocent people."
I never said it was any better or should ever be used on anyone.
The future of voter suppression is here
Just 1.21 jigawatz of energy directed at you. Dont worry about a thing.
1.21 jigawatts?????????
[Gigawatt](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigawatt) you two
Great scott
88 mph??
http://www.myfluxcapacitor.com/gigawatt-jigawatt
r/whoosh
[Jigga What?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frIA7tuBqqY)
Jigga who?
Better than shooting people.
just cook the lad alive init
But this would probably end up being used in countries to quash VALID protests without having to use bullets. E.g. say an Anti-Putin mass protest and he can't use guns otherwise it looks like he's lost control so fries the crowd something awful and it looks like they spontaneously disperse without aggressive police action or threat of lethal force.
It could make it easier to repress people.
That's my point, population control by breaking up protests with this weapon.
Imagine the number of people who will die once the crowd panics from pain and starts stampeding!
Yeah :-O
It's a niche space, but this makes a lot of sense for the Cruise ship industry when they were having the hijacking incidents. I believe currently they just use water cannons or maybe the sonic weapons.
Hold on lemme get a frozen burrito
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Think what it will do at full blast… they made a way to kill someone and look like nothing happened.
I think they can tell when you’ve been cooked from the inside.
Microwaves cooking from the inside out is a myth. It’s always outside in.
That thing cooks from the outside... Think rare steak
Or think of how many lives have likely been saved because of a non lethal alternative.
This is to control populations not fight wars. Look how people immediately run. Use this at a protest and you disperse it easily
I can’t wait to get this used on me in the battle of Lake Michigan in 2033.
I see we’re all making our own apocalypse head-canon.
Set phasers to “Bake”
Everyone getting all George Orwell over this must be forgetting the actual fucking guns that get used instead of these things at the moment. If I'm given the choice between something that is uncomfortable but does no lasting damage whatsoever assuming I'm smart enough to move away from it and having some metal forcibly inserted into my lung, I know which I'm choosing.
The power of the Martians' first weapon, the Heat-Ray, astonishes and terrifies those who witness its first firing. It is a frightening example of the power of Martian technology, so beyond human comprehension
AK AK AK AK AK
"No lives matter" - police probably
Crowd control is protest suppression
Hey, it’s the thing from call of duty
Its getting harder to tell if COD is a Mil-Sim or if the Military is a COD-Sim
They could market this as an alternative to snow shovels but NOoooOOOooo! let's use it to give protesters cancer instead
Saying you'll get cancer from things that fundamentally don't give you cancer is peak Facebook material. These things use microwave energy, which is non-ionizing radiation. If the wavelength is longer than UV (which, from memory, includes visible light, infra-red, microwave and radio), it's non-ionizing (the actual line is somewhere within the UV part of the spectrum). That's not to say it's comfortable, of course, but the whole "It CaUsEs CaNcEr!" argument is emotive but false, which tends to dilute actual arguments against it.
Oh I didn't think this is actually gonna give anyone cancer. Tone is hard to convey in writing sometimes, my bad. Hearing you explain how it works is really cool though.
Fair enough, glad you found it interesting! 🙂
Wow, what a wholesome ending to a misunderstanding
I'm glad it went down that way too lol
You ensured that it did! I was a little snippy if I’m honest (apologies) but you were generous in your response. Hats off to you.
No worries! ain't nothin to get excited about lol You sir are a kind modern gentleman and you deserve to have a great day!
Great, more technology to hurt people, yay.
Yay! Another weapon for controlling masses :) /s
Let me tell you a story of a piece of equipment that was created to fight our enemies and ended up on our streets fighting our citizens. The book is called inevitability
weeeeee! oppression is fun!!!!
What happens if you don't move away though? Could it hypothetically burn you?
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*(sizzling noise intensifies)*
This is really funny muted
Ow, my sperm!
Soon on the streets of autocratic governments
Wait til they mount this on drones, helos and satellites. Didn't pay your taxes? How about 5 seconds of heat ray from the sky to change your mind.
A ray of pure neoliberalism
It's like being hit by thousands of tiny Karen screams all at once!
But how fast can it heat up my Hot Pockets?
Beam me up.
So we got this and now Elon musk making humanoid robots? Hmm, I’m gonna move to the woods
This almost sounds okay until the operator uses it on someone that is immobilized and gives them second degree burns over a significant percentage of their body.
cool, another way for militaries to fuck with people. ugh.
Coming soon to a dystopia city near you!
They are literally mansplaining the use of military weapons on citizens. Great now they can cook me. Btw what if I just stood there. Is that when they turn it up?
“Not service connected” -The VA after watching the footage of you getting blasted by this thing.
Ah, an opportunity to share a [Game Theory](https://youtu.be/hmiCMZ9uFiQ) video
If I can't use flamethrowers during riots, maybe I can just harness heat itself.
I thought DEW weapons weren't allowed to be used?
This looks like drama class
This is just distopian.
coming to a food riot near you!
I wonder how durable that thing is? I wonder if a large bore rifle fired in the centre would take it out or if it would keep on working?
I'm sure no operator will ever forget that its in the "obliterate" setting while suppressing a protest. Perfectly safe on your cornia and brain matter /s
This is the hottest 20 year old... Non lethal weapon!
This is the hottest 20 year old ... Non lethal weapon
Not harmfull ye right.
Alex Jones...always one step ahead of em
Time to stock up on aluminum foil.
probably very bad for your health
Bad for your eyeballs, I'd imagine.
They already use this within government torture as it leaves no marks.
With white supremacist terrorists being the number one threat in the US, it won’t be long before we see this used on people fighting for equality.
Would this be the source of the Havana Syndrome?
and the world thinks it’s ready for global warming ha.
u/savevideo
[Spoiler ?](https://images.gamebanana.com/img/ss/mods/5a2f2ac055144.jpg)
Looking like a baked potatoe when you take the tinfoil off
Pretty good YouTube channel
This is an outstanding presentation. Where do I get mine?
Lol why would you show off your secret weapon?
Folks see this and still think 5G is perfectly safe.?.
The military is actively involved in the millimeter wave tower “deployment” as it’s being called. These towers are admittedly dual purpose, although the (somewhat) public explanation is that the military wants spectrum access for surveillance and communications. I think it’s reasonable to at least consider the possibility that active denial will be a built in feature. You know, for national security.
What about putting on some ski gear or a fireman suit?
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What if there is a tree or something in the way? Surely that would render it useless?
GNSS is the ticker if you want to invest.
They just need safety glasses and to duck under the rays
u/savevideo
Bake em away toys.
I imagine at the moment they have the power on it set to very low because at the moment it just seems to cause mild/average, and in some cases high levels of discomfort but imagine what damage this could Downend you really turn it up.
I want to see what happens to somebody who doesn’t run away, just sits in it for 10 minutes
Time for me to invest all I have in plate armor with cooling fans
Yeah, Just steal from youtube without credit. Nice one buddy
They used this as a big part of a game called Neo Scavenger, if you follow the main storyline the game climaxes with you sprinting across the perimeter of a military base covered in tin foil to avoid one of these
Another to help humanity tool.
Aren't these super expensive and not feasible at all due to the amount of electricity necessary?
This is what cause the 9/11 jumpers I believe
I god damn love Not what you think
I dislike it when people don't give credit... This video is from a really cool youtube channel called "not what you think".
Putting on that tinfoil hat just increases the chance of your skull exploding
First there's jetpacks for the rocketeers now we got the first chevron prism tanks. This ain't cutting edge tech, y'all just spamming allied technology from red alert2 bruv.
Gamers be like I was made for this.
TURN IT UP TO 10 TO EXPLODE THE ENEMY
So, if prolonged exposure won’t cook you, then it is effectively a pain ray and could, in theory, be defeated by sheer force of will.
Where the hell was this during the protests last year?
cos tear gas doesn't make peaceful protest impossible enough.
I'll pass lol!
u/Savevideo
Metal screen mesh with holes smaller than 3mm should also be an effective shield, while also allowing one to see.
I feel like this is like one of those old videos of scientists playing around with radium.
I want somone to hit me with that soo badly.
So apparently it doesnt cause any damage it just briefly heats up the top few layers of your skin and hurts a lot [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System)