# Are scalar weapons for real? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 4, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879 "2003-08-04T12:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 48
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/941 "2003-11-04T03:43:22Z")
Except that it only works on June 21st. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/942 "2003-11-04T04:16:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DocCathode \* > \*\*This reminded of some interesting artifacts uncovered by Dr Jones, suggesting that StoneHenge may actually have been an attempt to utilize the sun itself as a death ray. \*\* Do tell, I haven’t read much about Dr. Jones’s work with Stone Henge. I lost interest when he got on that whole “holy grail” kick. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![thetruthisinhere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@thetruthisinhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thetruthisinhere)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/943 "2003-11-04T07:04:37Z")
maybe they are 1990’s Death Rays (check out the last sentence of this post) > **[U.S. Department of Defense](https://www.defense.gov/)** > > The Department of Defense is America's largest government agency. With our military tracing its roots back to pre-Revolutionary times, the department has grown and evolved with our nation. DoD News Briefing Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Monday, April 28, 1997 - 8:45 a.m. EDT There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/944 "2003-11-04T13:08:14Z")
A new high powered weapon was used in Iraq a week agol It may have been a ray gun of some sort as it bored a pencil sized hole through one side of an Abrahms tank’s armour, across the interior space and 1-1/2" into the far side and setting off the Halon fire suppressant system. The entire article is at: [http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE\_ID=35422](http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35422) ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/945 "2003-11-05T07:22:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spingears \* > **It may have been a ray gun of some sort as it bored a pencil sized hole through one side of an Abrahms tank’s armour, across the interior space and 1-1/2" into the far side and setting off the Halon fire suppressant system.** Ah, they’re Naughties style death rays. ---
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/946 "2003-11-05T09:09:24Z")
What’s all this talk and carrying on on whether or not scallions are real? I can tell you first hand that they do! I am sick and tired of you young people prancing around on your keyboards, making no sense whatsoever. When was the last time that any of you went to the market- there are plenty of scallions there, if you would just open your eyes, it makes me so mad…what?..it is whether scalar weapons are real?.. oh, never mind. Love, Emily Latella ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/947 "2003-11-06T06:58:44Z")
Are fish scales for real? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/948 "2003-11-07T17:48:59Z")
MY GOD!!! I just found a picture of [electrolux’s model ND-437 Rapid Fire Death-Ray with swivel mount](http://www.brotron.com/pics/images/elux4.jpg)!! It’s Electrolux’s first venture into death-ray and is really missing a lot of the cooler design elements of 1920s style death-rays (no fins, etc, etc) Man, I need to get my hands on that sweet baby. mount it on my roof and get those damn kids to go sit on someone else’s stoop! Other then this model, I don’t know to much about the Exectrolux death-ray venture. I don’t recall it being in any books by DR.s Calvin, Hobbes, or Griffin. Was this just another hidden research project of the Zotti’s–The iluminati of the death-ray industry? OR was this an example of big business trying to profit or a fringe movement, and if so why did it not catch on? ether way, I’m going to “acquire” one of these bad boys ASAP _ **UPDATE** _ I just did a quick search on e-bay and came up with [this](http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=52933&item=2200593253) a supposed “prop” from the Strickfaden Show. But we all know a Zotti original when we see it. Place your bids now and own a piece of death-ray history. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/949 "2003-11-07T20:01:47Z")
I’m not familiar with the Electrolux brand, **Monkeymule**. Perhaps you’re confusing it with Electro, which has been the top death-ray manufactorer for the past 75 or so years. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/950 "2003-11-07T23:30:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MonkeyMule \* > \*\*MY GOD!!! I just found a picture of [electrolux’s model ND-437 Rapid Fire Death-Ray with swivel mount](http://www.brotron.com/pics/images/elux4.jpg)!! It’s Electrolux’s first venture into death-ray and is really missing a lot of the cooler design elements of 1920s style death-rays (no fins, etc, etc) Man, I need to get my hands on that sweet baby. mount it on my roof and get those damn kids to go sit on someone else’s stoop! > > Other then this model, I don’t know to much about the Exectrolux death-ray venture. I don’t recall it being in any books by DR.s Calvin, Hobbes, or Griffin. Was this just another hidden research project of the Zotti’s–The iluminati of the death-ray industry? OR was this an example of big business trying to profit or a fringe movement, and if so why did it not catch on? ether way, I’m going to “acquire” one of these bad boys ASAP\*\* IIRC, Electrolux models suck. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/951 "2003-11-08T00:01:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > \*\*IIRC, Electrolux models suck. \*\* That was the selling point. They combined a death ray with a tractor beam, so that it could kill things and gather them together at the same time. Nothing worse than having to spend hundreds of henchman hours collecting the corpses of a vanquished army. ---
**Author:** ![cdhostage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/952 "2003-11-08T04:13:43Z")
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**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/953 "2003-11-08T04:33:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cdhostage \* > \*\*´´é†††ee†t¥¥¨?˜?ƒ?çƒ?ß??¨???ƒ©ß?¥®ß¥ƒß??˜???®ßߥ?ß®¥?ƒß?ƒƒ??ƒ??ƒ?˜?˜???¨¥ƒß?ƒßƒ \*\* What the HELL is that? damn Zotti’s strike again!! don’t look at that, it’s devil code and will fry your brain!! It’s 2000’s style death Code ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/954 "2003-11-09T19:33:06Z")
Well, it’s cleverly disgused as a toy, but [these guys are selling what appears to be an early Zotti prototype.](http://sciplus.com/singleItem.cfm?terms=8764&cartLogFrom=Search) ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/955 "2003-11-09T22:26:27Z")
See how devious those Zotti’s are? Selling prototype death-days for $2. See that way they get the public hooked on a cheap inferiour product. THen a certain minonity will wnat bigger better weapons of mass death and boosting their sales. Those bastards ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/956 "2003-11-09T22:43:18Z")
The Zottis haven’t owned a death-ray company since the 1930’s, and they sold their large (but not quite majority) share in Consolidated Death Rays in the early 1960’s. They are devious, I grant you that. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/957 "2003-11-09T23:00:36Z")
Are you 100% sure they have sold all their death-ray intrests? I would be just like teh Zotti’s to sell their shares to smaller compaines that they own through other coperations they own, controling death-rays from the shadows. Never Trust a Zotti, ever/ ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/958 "2003-11-09T23:01:26Z")
Ah, they’re 1920’s style “Death Rays.” ---
**Author:** ![Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patricinus_Scriblerus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/959 "2003-11-09T23:31:22Z")
Some one kill this thread please!!! (maybe with one of those 1920’s style “Death Rays”) ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879/960 "2003-11-09T23:45:09Z")
This thread is like beating a dead horse, setting on fire, pissing on the ashes and Feading those ashes to a new horse to start all over again. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879.md?page=47) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-scalar-weapons-for-real/192879.md?page=49)