Dear All:

Every so often, a topic comes along that's so inherently cool, it requires
mandatory coverage. After over a year of waiting, I've finally been able to
get permission to do a page on Directed Lightning....the next leap in
non-lethal weapons technology. My story comes after media exposure by CNN
and New Scientist Magazines, but I have something they don't -- video of the
research underpinning the science of these devices.

There are a few approaches to the idea, the most well-known being HSV
Technology's 193-nm Excimer Beam technology. This technique involves
creating an artificial lightning channel through the atmosphere by ionizing
an air-channel with Ultraviolet radiation. Another approach is the
more-esoteric technology in use by Xtreme Advanced Defense Systems, Inc -- a
highly-confidential process that shoots a high-voltage beam like a fire-hose
approximately 12-feet.

There have been attempts in the past to make the HSV-style technology work
for practical applications -- most notably a cooperative effort between
Boeing and the Department of Defense in the 1980's to create a
directed-lightning anti-missile system. In theory, it would have consisted
of a Boeing 747 outfitted with an underslung Carbon-Dioxide laser that would
have ionized an air-channel to allow a high-voltage electrical pulse to
knock an incoming Soviet ICBM out of the sky. However, The DoD abandoned the
project, as 5 miles was their absolute minimum acceptable range for missile
intercepts, and their prototype apparatus was only able to achieve a 3-mile
effective-range. (ref. Col John Alexander)

More recently, HSVT obtained a patent on a non-lethal application for
similar technology -- in their proprietary implementation, (US Patent
#5,675,103) they aren't worried about transmitting a high-power beam for
several miles. Instead, they've set more achievable goals, with the project
goal being to transmit a beam only a few hundred yards at most, using a
retina-friendly 193nm Excimer beam to create the ion-channel. Unlike the
DoD's CO2 laser, the excimer beam is lower in power and absorbed by the
cornea, so that permanent exposure damage to the eye is minimized.

In this kinder, gentler world of non-lethal weapons, electrocution is out --
and tetanizing beams are in. The difference is frequency, and power. The
tentanizing frequencies are high-voltage AC-signals overlaid onto a
low-power conduction current that create rapid muscle fatigue -- it's 2
seconds of discomfort, followed by 3 to 5 minutes of fatigue, which renders
the victim immobile and unharmed.

Tetanizing frequencies are already in use by Police Tasers, and they work
well. What the Taser lacks is range -- it suffers from inherently limited
range as a result of a length of wire that spools out when the Taser is
fired, limiting the effective distance to several feet in range.

For additional information on these technologies, and how they may affect
the future of law-enforcement and military-tactics, visit the American
Antigravity.Com site for details.

Non-Lethal Directed-Lightning Information:
http://www.americanantigravity.com/phasers.shtml

Directed-Lightning Video-Clip (standard RES)
http://www.intalek.com/av/Directed-Lightning-Music-Video-LQ.wmv

Directed-Lightning Video-Clip (High-RES)
http://www.intalek.com/av/Directed-Lightning-Music-Video.wmv

Sincerely;

Tim Ventura
http://www.americanantigravity.com
tventura6@...






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