Obscure Research Blog August Archive

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Proposal Title:

Less-Lethal Eye Safe Handheld LED-Based Incapacitator for Law Enforcement

Topic Number:

H-SB05.1-005

0512003

Topic Title:

INNOVATIVE LESS-LETHAL DEVICES FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Abstract:

In Phase I, Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) developed and demonstrated a hand-held, battery operated prototype nonlethal weapon that utilizes an array of super-bright light emitting diodes (LEDs) to produce flashing light that causes disorientation and flashblindness in the target subject(s). To enhance the effectiveness of the LED-based Incapacitator (LEDI), IOS incorporated and evaluated such supplementary features as multiple colors, random and periodically changing frequencies and intensities of light, an embedded flashlight, a multidirectional strobe, and an ultrasonic rangefinder, which provides eye-safe operation. IOS also outlined, by establishing the preliminary calculations for narrow beam forming optics and a powerful die cluster on a single substrate, the development of a device that will operate at power levels close to the eye-damage threshold, yet in hand-held format. In Phase II, IOS will develop and fabricate a LEDI, and tests will be performed on human subjects. The final Phase II LEDI prototype will operate at the eye-damage threshold at distances up to 21-25 feet, and produce strong flashblindness with afterimages at distances up to 50 feet. The LEDI is intended to serve as a complementary supportive weapon for the nonlethal Tazer and other more lethal equipment of military and security personnel

See if you can find the movie "Looker" to see where this is all heading.

Credit to Keelynet for this original mention of this device.

You may have seen in the news the information about someone in Israel coming up with the design for a "Time Machine". The main problem is that 'time' doesn't work that way. Secondly if that method of 'time travel' did work, then the operator of it, in the future, would have came back and told the designer that his idea worked. :-)

This is more along the line of how 'time' works: http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time

Take a look at the "Many-Worlds" interpretation of quantum physics if your interested in how 'time' works, then take a look at an obscure paper by T.E.Bearden about "Virtual State Engineering and its Implications", at Unusual Research.

If hyperspace navigators get paid by the hour, then what is the pay-scale in a place where time has no meaning?

"So what is a barrel?

A barrel contains 42 gallons, or 34.97 imperial gallons.

The 42 gallons became the standard measurement in the early days of oil.

As oil flowed fast and furious from hastily drilled wells in the early oil days along [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. thederrick. com/ stories/ 08042007 -6002. shtml, anchor: Oil Creek] , any type of container, whether a wash basin or a whiskey tub, was pressed into service to collect and ship oil.

While the sizes differed, they were all referred to as barrels. It was only by chance that the most common size container was a 40-gallon barrel normally used to ship spirits, salt, food and produce.

Oil tax:

Toward the end of the Civil War, the federal government tried to standardize the oil industry?s barrel measurement.

The reason: The government needed money to press the war effort so it decided to levy taxes on a barrel of oil.

The tax was tied to the measurement - a $1 tax on each barrel of petroleum of 45 gallons or less, and an additional $1 tax on any container larger than that."

The [404 Check: was link to http:/ / www. thederrick. com/ stories/ 08022007 -4014. shtml, anchor: article continues] with other interesting facts...