oh yeah? well then FWAZZOOOOZOZOOZOOOZOOOOOO to you! :)

yeah, i was letting the whole nadion's don't exist thing slide, since dumping around 4000kj/kgk*60 degrees + heat of fusion (big, don't remember what, but a big number) and the expansion of water to gas thing, and on and on.
Not to mention that terrible terrible smell it would likely make.

The energy question leaves me to think that accelerants packed into containers and accelerated through barrels is probably going to remain the "state of the art" in making dead people for some time to come.

Phasers are actually a lot more doable if you ask me. Particles can be accelerated using laser radiation at the right frequency, and has been used for small scale particle accelerator experiments in the past. My biggest holdup with phasers, is they don't sound right, and neither do freaken lightsabers. To my mind, lethal futuristic superweapons just are not cool if it doesn't do the old school War Of the Worlds "FSZHUULZUZOOZOOZOOOO" sound. Thats a prerequisite for weaponry in my book.

If all the mad supergeniuses trying to get the word p3n*s through my email filter would turn their attention to this instead, we'd be cloaking whole planets by now. ... and solved AIDS and cancer. and boredom. i could go on...