Post Your Futuristic Weapon - Got an Awesome Picture?

[edward]

I have been working on a futuristic weapon using old tech. I call it the collapsing overhead canopy.

It appears to be a harmless patio umbrella until it suddenly collapes and enfolds an enemy while at the same time releasing laughing gas.

My first prototype called Storm Damage I can be seen below.

http://i49.tinypic.com/241qjpt.jpg

Don't laugh I am not done yet.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Don't laugh I am not done yet.

Sorry, it just sort of slipped out.

 

[edward]

Sorry, it just sort of slipped out.

Oh yea, well I'll have you know that I am leaving to pick up my second prototype and more laughing gas.

http://www.target.com/p/Cantilever-Offset-Patio-Umbrella-Champagne-10/-/A-13660011?ref=tgt_adv_XSG10001&AFID=Google_PLA_df&LNM=%7C13660011&CPNG=patio%20garden&ci_sku=13660011&ci_gpa=pla&ci_kw=

 

[Danger]

One of my old public school friends, who I hadn't seen in 10 years, decided to write an SF story and wrote to me (we're on opposite sides of the country now) about possible technologies. A weapon that I proposed for that book, for use as an inter-ship tactical device, is a missile that spews acid in a magnetic fluid matrix. (I'm thinking along the lines of the magnetic ink that used to be used for computer printers. That was cutting-edge technology at the time, but it seems kind of crappy now.) The idea is that it will stick to an opponent's hull long enough to chew through it.

 

[GTOM]

Ryan : i thought about small capsules levitating like spores, terrorists inhale them, and they would have a magnetit core. It would explode when it get a directed microwave current.


An idea for a futuristic weapon : create a mini black hole, and fire it.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

Ryan : i thought about small capsules levitating like spores, terrorists inhale them, and they would have a magnetit core. It would explode when it get a directed microwave current.

Just assuming that would work for the moment (and I'm skeptical that it would: how would you ensure enough was inhaled, absorbed and wasn't noticeable via side effects) what are the advantages of such a system? You still have to get line of site on a target and pull a trigger. Why not just swap our the directed microwave with a gun...

An idea for a futuristic weapon : create a mini black hole, and fire it.

Assuming you did create one you would A: need a massive particle accelerator ala LHC, B: need to somehow stabilise the hole before it evaporated, C: be very unpopular with everyone since you just consigned the planet to a slow death.

 

[GTOM]

They have been calming people that even if a mini black hole would appear in LHC, that wouldn't consume the planet, as it would evaporate quickly.
What it depends, that it evaporates, or stay stabil?

 

[Ryan_m_b]

They have been calming people that even if a mini black hole would appear in LHC, that wouldn't consume the planet, as it would evaporate quickly.
What it depends, that it evaporates, or stay stabil?

I'm aware, I didn't mean literally you needed and LHC but something more powerful. The black hole will be stable if it is massive enough to reach the wall of the collider and start consuming. As it will fall into the Earth it will then just sit there and slowly grow.

 

[GTOM]

So you say, if we would raise energy levels in LHC, it could REALLY mean destroying Earth?

 

[Ryan_m_b]

So you say, if we would raise energy levels in LHC, it could REALLY mean destroying Earth?

AFAIK raising energy levels is a horrendous understatement, though it's not really fully understood at the moment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole#Can_we_produce_micro_black_holes.3F

 

[GTOM]

About lasers :
What is the best efficiency of lasers today?
Can they be effective against reflective surfaces? While all mirrors swallow some percent of the light, but it isn't the same whether they can reflect 90%, or 30% if they don't know the exact wavelength of the beam.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

I think you mean to ask what is the best efficiency of reflective surfaces and how much heat can they take before they loose this. I'm unfamiliar with this field but I've read that any weaponised laser would be able to warp a mirror to the extent that it is no longer reflective and thus useless as a defence, all in a short period of time. Regarding wavelength I'm pretty sure that reflective surfaces only reflect certain wavelengths with others being reflected at differing efficiencies.

The best defence against a laser is likely to be a lot of mass or to not be in the way.

 

[Superposed_Cat]

teleportation would be the worst thing for war because you could tp bombs anywhere, right past any security system, any army.

with that you could also teleport a place hole for a microsecond behind enemy lines, just suck them up then disappear.

 

[Ryan_m_b]

teleportation would be the worst thing for war because you could tp bombs anywhere, right past any security system, any army.

with that you could also teleport a place hole for a microsecond behind enemy lines, just suck them up then disappear.

Good job it isn't possible then. We should keep this to some semblance of realism please or the thread will have to be locked.

 

[MathJakob]

Currently being developed by the United States military apparently.