{"id":11286,"date":"2012-03-20T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11286"},"modified":"2012-03-20T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T08:00:38","slug":"is-it-hot-in-here-or-is-it-just-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11286","title":{"rendered":"Is It Hot in Here, or is it Just the Army?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pda.physorg.com\/news\/2012-03-military-unveils-non-lethal-ray-weapon.html\">US military unveils non-lethal heat ray weapon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On-demand hot-flashes.  The menopausotron unveiled!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The technology has attracted safety concerns possibly because the beam is often confused with the microwaves commonly used by consumers to rapidly heat food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of misperceptions out there,&#8221; lamented Taffola, saying the Pentagon was keen to make clear what the weapon is, and what it is not.<\/p>\n<p>The frequency of the blast makes all the difference for actual injury as opposed to extreme discomfort, stressed Stephanie Miller, who measured the system&#8217;s radio frequency bioeffects at the Air Force Research Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The system ray is 95 gigahertz, a frequency &#8220;absorbed very superficially,&#8221; said Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The beam only goes 1\/64th of an inch (0.4 millimeter), which &#8220;gives a lot more safety.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the heating is all at the surface, not in the interior, so it cooks your skin, not your internal organs.  It&#8217;s not a direct quote, but one might get the impression that the message is &#8220;it&#8217;s not microwave, it&#8217;s radio-frequency&#8221; and playing on the notion that radios are harmless.  But AM and FM radio bands are at around 1 MHz and 100 MHz, respectively.  However, ~ 1 GHz from microwave ovens is microwave, so 95 GHz is well into the microwave band of the spectrum.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US military unveils non-lethal heat ray weapon On-demand hot-flashes. The menopausotron unveiled! The technology has attracted safety concerns possibly because the beam is often confused with the microwaves commonly used by consumers to rapidly heat food. &#8220;There are a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}