Build your own 1920's style death ray. Really

[What_Exit]

from http://blog.wired.com/gadgets

Build Your Own Futuristic Death Ray!
Kids at school giving you a hard time again? Don’t just crush their heads with your fingertips from a distance; blast them with your handheld ray gun!* You, too, could own the weapon of the future with this handheld laser gun from Information Unlimited. With a blasting power of 500 Joules, the Laser Ray Gun can fire 120 to 150 shots on a pair of AA batteries, burning holes in most materials.

For $20, you can buy the plans to build one of these babies in your garage, or you can drop $1,750 on a fully assembled unit. (You can also buy the kit and assemble it yourself to save a couple hundred bucks.) But whichever option you choose, you’ll have to return a signed hazardous equipment affidavit before the company will send you any hardware.
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• Note: Gear Factor in no way endorses the blasting of school bullies, or any other persons, with a futuristic laser gun that you bought on the Internet*

I am actually thinking this over. It sounds very cool and appeals to the geek in me. I once tried to build a particle accelerator.

Jim

[The_Weird_One]

No, no, no. A futuristic deathray is no good. We need a historical death ray. Plus, look at it - the design is clearly post-modern minimalist. Any 1920s Death Ray worth its salt will have slick Art Deco styling.

[Kythereia]

[QUOTE=The Weird One]
No, no, no. A futuristic deathray is no good. We need a historical death ray.

[QUOTE]

Pffffft. A historical death ray won’t be able to blast anything, it’ll just fizzle out and fall apart. We need a futuristic death ray disguised as a historical death ray to fool our dastardly evil-doers…

[What_Exit]

Well I would definitely want to mod it with a chrome painted model the Chrysler building. Would that work? I could try remotely powering it with a Tesla Coil.

[What_Exit]

So you would only settle for this maybe.

[Regallag_The_Axe]

With a blasting power of 500 Joules, the Laser Ray Gun can fire 120 to 150 shots on a pair of AA batteries, burning holes in most materials.

So… what if I powered it with a deisel engine and turned the power up to 5000 joules.