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	The Pentagon's Ray Gun

Moonowler

3-18-2008 8:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7b6b22c1-e1cd-4715-bf6f-ade4ad18c6c3/C36D776C-6FF7-4E9D-8C53-1369F285CB44/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3891865.shtml" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3891865.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cbsnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3891865.shtml">Pentagon officials call it a major breakthrough which could change the rules of 
war and save huge numbers of lives in Iraq. But it's still not there. That 
because in the middle of a war, the military just can't bring itself to trust a 
weapon that doesn't kill. <BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3891865.shtml">It's a gun that doesn't look anything like a gun: it's that flat dish antenna 
which shoots out a 100,000-watt beam at the speed of light, hitting any thing in 
its path with an intense blast of heat. <BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3891865.shtml">An operator uses a joystick to zero in on a target. Visible only with an 
infrared camera, the gun, when fired emits a flash of white hot energy -- an 
electromagnetic beam made up of very high frequency radio waves. <BR></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/29/60minutes/main3891865.shtml">Officially called the "Active Denial System," it does penetrate the body, but 
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