| cpaul on Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:57:14 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> RE: New Scientist: Microwave Crowd Dispersal Tested (ADT) |
Begin forwarded message: date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 10:31:35 -0500 from: "Trei, Peter" <[email protected]> to: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> subject: CDR: RE: Fw: <nettime> New Scientist: Microwave Crowd Dispersal Tested (ADT) > > On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 07:12 PM, cpaul wrote: > > > > > aluminum foil? > > > > http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/heatison.jsp > > > > > > Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds > > i've been following the development of this skin heating > device for a while, and am keen to learn if there may be > an effective means to counter its use. > > the new scientist article suggests that the cornea is not > as resilient as skin when it comes to being bombarded with > microwaves, hence i seek opinions on how one might protect > oneself. Leather or wet clothes may shield most of the body. A wild guess to protect the eyes would be something that puts a transparent conductive material over them - mirror sunglasses, the mylar glasses used for eclipse observations (though you could not see anything else through them :-(), or the conductive, mostly transparent plastic material which is used to package static sensitive electronic components. Another possibility is to make goggles out of metal flyscreen - since the wavelength is 3mm, it's doubtful that they can penetrate. Chain mail would also work for the body. Peter # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]