Any man who electrocutes himself for fun is not my idea of stable… or genius.
I forget what his death ray thing was all about, so I’ll get to the modern one. Seemingly it can cause earthquakes, hurricanes, a plethora of mental effects including (but certainly not limit to) mind control, and there’s some insignificant stuff about zapping electronics… blah blah blah.
There are only two theoretical ways to zap people, computers, or both. Now zapping people would be highly moronic. You’re going to spend billions developing and building a weapon that is equal to artillery but takes a hellaoflotta energy and is theoretically impossible to aim. Yeah, sure.
Not that killing computers is impossible. The effect of such a weapon to destroy electronics, while not totally debilitating, would have great effect on countries such as the US which rely on electronics heavily. Imagine a US with basically no air force, no navy and a crippled army combined with a shocked and TV-deprived public. Scary.
The thing is you need to create an ElectroMagneticPulse to do so… the problem being is you need lots of energy to do so. From what I’ve read you need a wave of electrons to hit other electron thus making them go really fast, blah blah blah. Again, even if I knew exactly how this works it’d be pointless because there is no way of getting enough energy going to do so. Plus this can’t be done in the “death ray” style. You can’t just aim a straight ray at something. The best idea would be to suspend such a thing… but thats impractical. No, what you want is a electromagnetic bomb of sorts. Again, you need a way to get enough energy to produce a pulse of electrons. IF you could convert the kinetic energy of a nuke into a wave of electrons without blowing your bomb to kingdom come, then walla. But wait, why the hell would you bother? Thermonuclear bombs over 1 megaton produce a nice electromagnetic pulse anyhow.
Please help my science because I may be totally off base.
Ohmygod, 1920s Death Rays perfected in the '30s, The New Deal, Seabiscuit, Capone, crop circles, 200mpg carburetors, over unity energy devices, fake moon landing, grassy knoll… It all makes sense. Wait. someone’s at the door. No, it’s them! Argh! gurgle gurgle
[Guys and Dolls cast reject]Youse didn’t see nuttin’[/G&DCR]
We had a shipload of rays brought in to our testing facility back in nineteen-canteen, of course in them days they could only perm the hair of a man you had shot point-blank in the face. A man with permed hair in my town would invariably end up getting his ass kicked. So they were not nearly as dangerous as the so-called 1920’s style " Death -Rays " as they were so-called…in the 1920’s.