WEBVTT - TechStuff Arms Itself with Non-lethal Weapons 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:09.160 It's ready. Are you didn't touch with technology? With tech 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:17.479 Stuff from how stuff flix dot com. Hello everyone, then, 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:19.759 welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette, and 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.799 I am an editor at how Stuff works dot com. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.079 Sitting across from me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:30.040 You know, I'm just three days away from retirement. He 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.240 really wanted to do that, even though he haven't done 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.760 quotes in a while. Yeah, because you know, when we're 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.239 talking about non lethal weapons, I immediately thought of that 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:44.639 great series of documentaries lethal Weapon and uh, and so 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.680 we wanted to talk today about weapons that are designed 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:53.640 to stop a target without killing that target, or at 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.280 least that that's supposed to be what they do. Well. Yeah, 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.480 some some of the research I did also turned up 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:07.280 other versions of the uh phrase non lethal weapons, including 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.280 less than lethal weapons, which sounds to me like it 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:16.680 is a a verbal uh disclaimer he's only mostly dead. Yeah, well, 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.040 it's not supposed to kill you. We actually had somebody, uh, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.040 we've had some people right in to ask us about 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.720 a particular one of the ones we're gonna talk about today. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.040 But um, really, there there's a whole series of different 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.559 kinds of things that the military and police departments around 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:38.400 the world are investigating to basically stop people without hurting 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:43.640 them completely. Yeah. Yeah, so and this is this is tough. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.039 I mean, how do you how do you convince someone 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:52.280 to stop acting irrationally or dangerously without really hurting that 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.120 person in turn? And it's tricky, but there are a 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.600 lot of different approaches that we've tried to take. Yeah, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.559 and I was I'm sorry. I was about to say 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.440 though that there are a lot of reasons why you 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.600 would want to do this other than you know, simply 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.400 not wanting to to kill someone. Um, you know, for 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.079 for strategic reasons. If you have, say uh um, and 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.359 this scenario I've seen written about a lot, uh say 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.080 an uprising where you have say, hundreds of people uh 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.280 protesting and maybe the protest is getting out of hand. Well, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.720 the the authorities who come to subdue the protesters or 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.960 dispersed the protesters, Uh, if they kill people, they are 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.600 likely to escalate uh these kinds of of riots or 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.919 or disquiet. And uh, you know it's uh, it's happened. 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.399 You know, we can I can remember stories going back 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.919 centuries of something like this happening. So if there's a 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:45.840 way to to uh get people to leave without really 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.040 hurting anybody, that that's an advantage for for everyone. Really. 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.400 I mean, the protesters don't get hurt as badly or 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.160 or you know, even if it just makes them feel 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.359 uncomfortable and they leave as a result of that, I mean, 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.600 it seems like, uh, it's a positive for everyone. Yeah. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.560 And and we've tried a lot of different approaches with 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:09.040 a lot of different methodologies and a lot of different results, right, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.640 not all of them have been successful. Here's one of 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.480 the ones I wanted to talk about first that's just 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.040 kind of interesting to me. This is using sound as 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.000 a weapon. Now, there are two different ways that sound 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.919 tends to be used as a weapon. One of them 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:27.320 is in something called a long range acoustic device or 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:33.040 l l R a d. Yes. These are focused beams 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.160 of sound. You you just you crank up the decibel 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.320 level to like a hundred fifty decibles, which is about 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:42.120 fifty decibles over the pain threshold, and you direct it 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.400 at the target. And that means the target suddenly has 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:49.840 this incredibly loud noise, uh directed at them and it's 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.119 a painful experience to hear it. In fact, you can 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.360 suffer hearing loss if you are subjected to that for 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.800 too long. Uh. Some of these devices have actually been 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.000 used for a communication purpose. Is I read one report 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:05.280 that said that there were navy ships that used a 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.000 form of l R A D to send out signals 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.080 to um two boats as they pulled into a harbor. 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:18.120 So let's say that a giant navy vessel is sailing 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:23.000 into a harbor that's got a busy fishing uh industry, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.680 and not all the fishermen are necessarily paying attention to 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.440 the fact that there's an enormous ship coming in and 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.719 they need to get out of the way. I read 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.520 a report that said that there was a way where 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.680 you could use this as a communications tool where you're 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.719 not trying to overpower someone, You're not trying to cripple them. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.880 You're just trying to get their attention and say, hey, buddy, 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.040 we're coming through. You might want to move, And except 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.680 you're saying it in whatever the local languages, and that 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.640 it totally freaks people out because suddenly they can hear 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:57.640 this voice coming from really far away, as if it's 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.880 on a radio or something, but there's no radio. I mean, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.040 just using a focused beam of sound to direct that 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.640 sound at the individual and then that gets a little 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.800 you know, it's a little unreal surreal, if you will. 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.919 I would love to have one of these just to 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.600 mess with people like, hey, hey you, I can see you, 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.640 you know that kind of stuff. But but but the 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.719 the other use of this is, like I said, crank 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.800 it up and you cripple someone because it's just so 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.280 loud that it it's the pain is um uh difficult 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:35.599 to bear on the on the Department of Defense non 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.240 Lethal Weapons program pages and they have I use these 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.360 for for my research. They have a set of current 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.839 and uh proposed um different kinds of non lethal weapons, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.320 and they use what they call acoustic healing devices, which 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.760 I think are are probably related to these uh and 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:55.080 they have a picture of one of those. But they 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:59.479 say that they use them to to uh give intelligible 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.800 voice coming hands over very very long distances. So I 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.960 think they you know, from ship to ship, um, you 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.000 know where they're not actually trying to cause pain, but 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:13.719 they're using that level of h extra heavy amplification to 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.120 get a message across and they consider it a weapon 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.520 but they're not talking about using it in the exact 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:23.279 same way. It's like a really focused bullhorn. Yeah. Yeah. 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.599 Another UM non lethal weapon that I saw that uses 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.000 sound as the impulse stunnerd gun. UM. I don't know 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.280 about this one. No, it's uh, it's it's pretty neat. UM. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.400 Some of these, some of these weapons quote unquote weapons, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:41.960 I guess they're technically weapons, UM, have very interesting names. Uh. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.360 This one is would have been used if you've ever 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:49.279 watched the movie Thunderball UM, the documentary the documentary Thub 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:55.960 Thunderball UM, which has a very scintillating underwater battle scene. UM. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.000 But if someone had had the impulse stunner gun, that 0:06:58.080 --> 0:06:59.839 might have gone in a a different way because basically this 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.480 is uh used to stop people who are diving or 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:10.280 swimming um underwater. It uses a sound wave that travels 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:15.920 underwater that affects a way a person here's and will 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.880 induce nausea. Oh so that's something you want to feel 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.600 when you're underwater. No. No, And I mean if you had, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.600 you know, divers who are attempting some kind of underwater subterfuge. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:33.760 I wanted to say subterfuge partially, Um, you know it 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.000 would it would you think about that if you were 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.600 feeling suddenly like you were about to be ill, very 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.560 violently ill underwater? I imagine it would be very hard 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.920 to continue on with your actions. You would have to 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.040 break it off and and dive for the surface, you know, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.840 dive for the surface. What swim to the surface. Here 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.160 we go. Um, but yeah, that's a pretty neat application 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.960 of sound too well. And another one I saw, which 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.040 did not have a name, or at least not a 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.680 name that I can find, is a product that was 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.760 developed by some Japanese engineers. Uh. It was a gun 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.680 that has a microphone, a directional microphone, and directional speakers. 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.880 And the what the gun does is you pointed at 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.559 someone who's being loud and obnoxious. Their voice goes into 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.840 the microphone. It gets projected back from by the speakers 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.480 at about a point to second delay, So the person 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.840 talking starts to hear themselves speaking but point two seconds 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:36.679 behind what they're currently saying, which is incredibly distracting. It's 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.679 very difficult to continue a train of thought when you're 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.679 hearing yourself at a slight delay. If you've ever talked 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.679 on the phone or on any sort of radio, device 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.960 where you got that little bit of an echo or 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.280 on on Skype for example, anything like that where you 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.360 start talking and you start hearing yourself just an instant 0:08:54.400 --> 0:09:00.320 after you're talking. It can be very disorienting. Itsori. Yeah, 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.840 you start talking, then you're thinking, wait, I just said that. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.360 No no, I just said that. No no, no, I 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.960 just said that, And then you can't make sense of 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:12.120 anything anymore. So this particular quote unquote weapon was sort 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.880 of a I was designed to try and take care 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.960 of people who are rude. Yeah, it's not meant to 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.439 be like something to disperse a crowd or whatever. But 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.960 there were a lot of of notes I saw on 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.199 the article. Yeah, that was popular a few a few 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.520 months ago. I remember seeing seeing that a lot. So 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.239 it's not it's not something that the police are using necessarily. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.839 It's more like a I'm trying to eat my dinner 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.960 in a restaurant and you're having a cell phone conversation 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.280 at the table next to me and you're really annoying. Yeah, 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.000 or I'm at the movie theater and I just want 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:48.040 to watch this documentary darnett Um. Yeah, the notes I 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.520 saw said, what if you use this for someone who 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.680 was doing some public speaking. But I would imagine that 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.680 even with directional speakers, it's not so focused that only 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.440 the person who is speaking can hear it. You know, 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.320 it's not like you're beaming the words directly back into 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.280 the person's ears. Everyone can hear it. So it's not 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.480 like you could get away with doing something like that. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.840 Everyone would know who had done that, and you would, uh, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.160 you would very quickly get your come up. And I 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.600 would imagine, depending upon the circumstances of where you used it, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.360 why you um, like, I just want to aim it 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:30.240 at that valedictorian, she's so big. Um. Yeah. I was 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.600 also thinking that that's interesting that we bring that up 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.720 in an election year here in the United States where 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.600 people are giving a lot of speeches. We'll see. That 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:38.960 was the thing that was That was what a lot 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.880 of the notes, uh, we're you know, That's what they 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:46.120 pertained to, was the idea of some sort of person 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.240 who's running for an elected office and then disrupting their 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.880 speech so that they seem like they're an idiot, and 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.560 then it gives their opponent an advantage. But the truth 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.920 is, is is that particular weapon or that particular product, whatever 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.560 you wanna call it, would not be so subtle as 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.680 to allow someone to get away with that. I have 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:12.600 another This is not another D O D product. UM 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.319 actually looks sort of like a series of of flat 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.280 disks that are quartered together. Doesn't look very offensive if 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.720 you will weapon. But it's called the Enhanced Underwater Loudhailer. 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.520 I told you they had some strange names. Basically, this 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.400 is another underwater device that can be used up to 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:36.079 uh forty deep in water. UM, and it can it 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:41.319 can transmit sound up to four sevens away. Basically they 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.360 can give It's sort of like the one that they 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.400 use above the surface of the water. But um, it 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.720 allows you to uh send on you know. I actually 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.520 the one I was just talking about a few moments ago, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.199 where the the device that you could use to send 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.440 signals for a very long time, make your commands heard 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.199 for very long distance. They show a picture of a 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:03.640 Navy ship. Think you could probably use that in other applications. UM, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.480 but yeah, they can also they can also issue commands 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:11.840 with this underwater a loudhailer or impair uh um people's 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.480 hearing underwater for up to two hours. It will operate 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.800 so uh pretty neat. It's sort of it's sort of 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.080 like the and some of the other research I did. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.920 I was looking at things like culture ups and devices 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.000 that you would use to stop vehicles, and I wasn't 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.439 really going to focus on that, but it sort of 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.480 seems like that, like you could drop this underwater. It's 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.200 battery operated and they can use it to give commands 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:39.200 and and affect divers hearing underwater. So pretty neat. Yeah, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.160 I'm ready to move on to a new category unless 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.960 you have another sound one. No, this is this is 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:48.120 moving to the category of air using air as a weapon. Oh, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.040 sort of like the air Zuka. Yeah, exactly, that's exactly 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.360 what it is. So air Zuka. So you're talking about 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.120 a device to Yeah, it's a toy. It's a device 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.880 that creates a vortex ring. Yeah. Now text ring is 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.240 kind of imagine sort of like a tornado, exceptance in 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.680 a donut shape and it will it's air that will 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.439 rotate in this donut shape and it actually will maintain 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.000 that integrity for a pretty good distance. And the air 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.040 Zuka is just a it's a toy that does this. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.480 You pull back a uh a sort of a well 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.280 it's a diaphragm really, and you let go and it 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.680 pushes air out through a novel and that creates the 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.360 spinning vortex of air that then can go across the 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.480 room and hit someone in the face and they feel 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.560 like someone just you know, blew a huge breath of 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.680 air right in their face for for no apparent reason. So, yeah, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.360 you walk in the door of a room, someone across 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.840 the room has gone whoop, and then you go, hey, 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.800 what was that? Well, and and there's and I mean 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.080 it doesn't move that fast either, So it's kind of 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.480 funny because you actually can see, you know, there's there 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.040 are a few seconds between when someone might fire one 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.160 and someone else might feel it, and so you're just 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.520 waiting and waiting. So that didn't work. Oh yeah, there's 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.760 the guy. They're flinching. Now, yep, it worked. Well, you 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.320 can actually kick that up a notch and weaponize it. 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:10.200 And if you use pressurized gas and you accelerate the 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:15.320 gas to supersonic velocity as it exits the nozzle. Once 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.280 it comes out of that nozzle, it becomes a high 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.120 spin vortex ring that can travel a good long distance 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.160 and be strong enough to knock over someone oh around 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.480 a hundred eighty pounds. So they it's like getting shoved 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.480 in the chest by a really strong person. It's just 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.640 it's just that it's air. Now, you could also, if 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:42.960 you were so inclined, add in um malodorance. I you know, 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.920 there were so many jokes that I was thinking about making, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.720 and I'm you're just not helping me. Well, the malodorance 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.640 would be designed maloderant, of course, of something that smells bad. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:57.120 But a malodorant could be designed to induce nausea or 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.520 for to make your eyes water. So then you're getting 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.000 shoved by a very stinky person essentially. But when I 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:08.000 say stinky person, I'm talking about smells. They're so bad 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.280 that you might feel like wretching. It's it's not like, 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.000 it's not just you know, oh that's like rotten eggs. No, 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:18.320 it's way way worse. And uh, you could even put 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.440 in other stuff too, if you really wanted to, like 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:25.800 some something that would affect you even more um acutely 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.040 than a malodorant. But anyway, that's the general idea is 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:33.520 just using air to knock back a person. Now, in 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:37.040 this case, you're talking about a weapon designed to really 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.120 knocked back individuals, right, You're not talking about like if 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:45.080 there's a group of people, uh, walking up, shooting each 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.520 one with a vortex of air is gonna take a 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.880 while because you have to let that pressure build back 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:52.040 up again and you have to then release the gas 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.840 so that it goes out. And of course, again that's 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.440 a projectile that doesn't move as fast as say a 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:02.080 bullet or even sound or anything like that, So it 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:04.400 starts to slow down almost immediately as it moves out, 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.400 well really immediately as soon as it objects from the nozzle. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.720 So even though it's moving at supersonic speeds within the nozzle, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.680 once it gets out, it starts to slow down. Um. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.920 So it's not it's not something that you could use 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.000 on a mass of people. But if you're talking about 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.360 aiming at a specific person to knock them down, perhaps 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.160 it's a individual who has shown himself to be a 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.760 danger or herself to be a danger to others, than 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:36.080 it would be a useful tool without actually causing that 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.440 person direct harm. Now, granted, if the person falls down, 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:43.280 there's always the chance that person could suffer serious injury 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.040 in that fall, but the impact of the air itself 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:52.640 should not necessarily cause injury. M Um, I don't really 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.720 have a lot of air based, I can move on 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.320 to electricity. Well you know it. I do have one 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.880 that's uh that sort of reminds me of that sort 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.840 of out of that um that field. And there was 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.800 one that that I saw as a UM it would 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:15.879 be very effective against vehicles, but it also would make you, um, 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.639 well slip called polymer ice. Did you run across this 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.680 one at all? This is not now, this is this 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.239 is a this is a spray. But apparently what it 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.480 is is essentially uh, you know, a polymer is as 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:32.040 a chemical, and they would use it in places where 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.760 the military is looking into this as a possibility apparently 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.840 for especially for places that are particularly warm, like the 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.960 Middle East or um, you know, places closer to the 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.439 equator than say, I don't know, Greenland, UM or maybe Atlanta, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.240 Georgia on a summer's day exactly. But if it effectively 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.800 creates sort of you would spray it on the ground 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:58.440 and it would effectively create a icy situation. So this 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.880 this plastic would make bull slip and fall as though 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:06.400 they were on ice. Um. Now, if you're if you're 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.359 thinking Keystone cops sort of things, So you're chasing somebody 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.360 and they've set up a trap ahead of them, so 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.600 that the polymer is on the ground now, so they're 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.440 starting to fall, and then of course the people who 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.439 are chasing them also begin to slip and fall, so 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.640 everybody is writhing around in the ground because they can't 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:28.720 get up. It's like a bunch of turtles on their backs. Yeah. Um, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.800 they have been working on a counter agent for this 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.280 that they could use the shoes. They could use it 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.080 on the shoes and tires of vehicle vehicles that are, 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:43.639 you know, running after them. Still a really advanced version 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:48.639 of my automatic banana peel tosser. But yeah, the the 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.760 whole you know, making people fall down thing that where 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.639 you were just talking about that a moment ago with 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.520 using the high powered air, I thought, oh, slipping it 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.840 and falling down, that sounds like the if you could 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.240 use the two together, so you could really have people 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.240 on their backs. So this is the reason why I 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.639 really wanted to do this, uh, this topic, because the 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:07.560 more we talk about the more it sounds like we're 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.720 entering a world where Acme products from Warner Brothers cartoons 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:16.440 are a reality. Well, people still like talking about that 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:21.600 that effort that the US military made to weaponize bats, Well, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.720 there's also the whole weaponized dolphins things. Yes, yes, and 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.960 that those those things are actually well we're actually real. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.560 So hey, yeah, there's some some of these are really 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.840 cool and some of them are sillier than not. You 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.040 take advantages anyway you can get them, and not everything 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.439 pans out, all right, So let's move on to electricity. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.520 So there's plenty of that. Yeah, you know, you have 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:46.320 your typical stun guns, which a basic stun gun is 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.000 a device that has a couple of electrode prongs that 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:54.119 when you when you activate it, electricity passes between the 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.919 two prongs. So if you were to put that in 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.000 contact with a human you could shock them and generally 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:04.120 it's a strong enough electric shock to make their muscles 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.800 seize up. It causes pain, and it also makes people 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.719 fall over if the if the shocks enough for their 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:14.680 muscles t to seize up like that, they lose control 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:19.000 of their muscle um, their muscle movements and they fall over. 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:24.719 Um yeah, it's you can't you can't stop that, you know, 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.720 because our muscles do work on electrochemical signals, so if 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.919 you use electricity to override those signals, then suddenly they 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:37.080 just start contracting like crazy, and you can't really do anything. Um. 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:41.320 As someone who has actually felt the sting of an 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.520 underpowered stunt gun, I can tell you it is not 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.240 a pleasant experience. It felt like it felt like a 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.280 really intense beasting because the one that was I was 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.439 gonna say, used on me, but really I used it 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:59.440 on myself. Uh. I was an idiot kid. I don't 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.119 want to know. It was not the first one to 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.880 do it either. I watched until several other people went 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.800 owl that that hurts. The next one's like, hey give 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:09.600 me that owl, Well, that does hurt, and next person, hey, 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.000 give me that al and then king round to me, 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:15.080 I'm like, all right, give me that. But the battery 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.400 had really run down, so it wasn't a very powerful 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.639 stun gun. And really the reaction we all had was 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.920 if you hit an attacker with that particular stun gun 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:26.320 because the battery been worn down so much, you really 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.320 would have just irritated them. Because again, it wasn't enough 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.800 to make all your muscles contract. It made you made, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.040 made whatever muscle it was in contact with twitch like crazy, 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.399 and it stunned, but it wasn't enough to really be 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.840 a deterrent, well, a real stun gun with a fully 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.920 charged battery is serious business that can make you fall 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.439 over and it can be a while before you can 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.840 get back up again. And perhaps the most I would argue, 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:54.600 the most famous name in this sort of technology, although 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:59.520 it's not just a stun gun, is Taser, and a 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.240 typic called taser is a device that ejects a pair 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:08.240 of electrodes, fires them at a target. UH. The electrodes 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.840 trail a wire that connects back to the handheld device, 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:14.880 and then once it comes into contact with the target, 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:20.320 electricity flows through the wires into those electrodes and shocks 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:25.000 the target and again creates a shock strong enough to 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:30.040 make all those muscles contract and the person generally winces, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:35.280 says something along the lines of owl and falls over UM. 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.040 And the intention is to do this in a non 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.879 lethal way. Now, there have been deaths associated with the 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.920 use of tasers. In some cases it was because of 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.000 the way the target or the person will say person 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:52.600 target is just the generic term, but the person fell, 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:56.879 and then the fall was partially what killed the person. 0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:59.120 In some cases, it might be that the person had 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:03.040 a pacemaker or some other medical device that got UH 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:07.200 that malfunction due to the electric shock. Sometimes it has 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:12.480 to do with drugs that are in the person's system. Anyway, 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.520