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Submission + - StunRay Incapacitates with a Flash of Light

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Scientific American reports that a newly patented method of non-lethal incapacitation can render an assailant helpless for several minutes by overloading the neural networks connected to the retina with a brief flash of high-intensity light. “It’s the inverse of blindness—the technical term is a loss of contrast sensitivity,” says Todd Eisenberg, the engineer who invented the device. “The typical response is for the person to freeze. Law enforcement can easily walk up and apprehend [the suspect].” The device consists of a 75-watt lamp, combined with optics that collect and focus the visible light into a targeted beam, which can be aimed like a flashlight to project a controlled beam of white light more than 10 times more intense than an aircraft landing light with a range as far away as 150 feet. Recovery time ranges from “seconds to 20 minutes,” says Eisenberg. “It’s very analogous to walking from a very bright room into a very dark room.”"

Comment we're not going to hand over the briefcase (Score 1) 1401

"the internet will split apart"

Let's ask Jules and Ringo:

"You don't want that, and I don't want that, and Ringo here Definitely don't want that, so let's see what we can do. But I can't give you what's in this case. It don't belong to me. And besides, I done been through too much shit this morning just to hand it over to your dumb ass."

Take the US out of the World Wide Internet? I don't think so.

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