Atom bombs are just the beginning. In the last half-century, the greatest military minds on Earth have developed an arsenal of weapons to make mutually assured destruction seem tame.
Whether these masterpieces of destruction come from miles above Earth or millimeters below the skin, they have one thing in common: they're spooky as hell.
Can turning animals into cyborgs ever end well? Should lasers really be strapped to planes? Is dispersing humans with the worst smell ever created a better alternative to doing it by burning their skin? You be the judge. Launch our gallery of the world's spookiest weapons—some decades away and others already implemented—and marvel over what humans can create when they work apart.
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Scary as hell.
Yes, Scary as hell.
yo i heard of a weapon before that could trigger earth quakes, why wouldnt that be in here?
from Taylor, TX
I have also heard of one that caused earth quakes but probably not the same as what you are talking about. This was a bomb and bunker buster of sorts. It was a 22,000lb known as "The Grand Slam" designed by a Mr. Willis ,I believe, it was for the UK's Royal Air Force in World War II. The reason it was not widely used I believe is because it was so large and only a few airplanes could carry it. Also as we all know a little later it would be over shadowed by the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski to end the war and when a bomb is so serious it can end a war that is note worthy. Altho "The Grand Slam" was a large bomb the only thing it really did was burrow deeply in the ground, explode and cause earth quake like trimmers that would bring down most builds.
from Taylor, TX
His name was Barnes Wallis. I was close but thought I would correct it after looking it up to be sure.
Read the e-book on www.farviewu.biz Its FREE.
It was written in 1991 and runs in a DOS box under windows.
Question: Has AIDS been spread around the world by 2 guys
living in Redwood City, California?
Are these guys working on something even worse?
How individual citizens got their vote back
In 2008 a massive movement will be started by individuals
who are fed up with the election process that exists in
the United States.
This is what will happen:
The citizens in this group will start mailing out envelopes
filled with small amounts of various powdered substances
normally found around the house.
These envelopes will be sent to the addresses available on
the Internet for all the candidates that the persons
are NOT in favor of.
This is why:
In 1991 an engineer, working in Boca Raton, Florida
wrote an e-book about this different form of terrorist
warfare (available Free on web site www.farviewu.biz).
Ten years later, just after the 9-11 event another event
occurred (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks).
Based on this post 9-11 their envelopes will close up the
candidates offices and possibly even the post office.
It may even shut down the 2008 election.
The individuals involved in the act will spend about
50 cents for each envelope mailed out. As long as they are
careful to not leave finger prints on/in the envelopes or
stamps and use bogus return addresses they will not be traceable.
If these are the weapons of today, how long will it be before science fiction becomes real? It's scary if you think about it. In science fiction, people can control other peoples brains. How is this so much different than what people can do a moth or a cochroach?
Hey I heard about living tissue over AI assassin known as a Terminator, how did that not make it in there?!?!
Josh
the letter thing i think is kind of pointless
The bomb has grooves in it to make it spin like a drill into the ground, the explode to generate shock waves in the ground to get through concrete and some other bomb-proof objects because the shock waves carry further, longer, and stronger through the ground.
but what really sucks is that if science keeps going the way it is something huge is going to wipe out a population. u see i am legend?
We don't need science to wipe us out. We're pretty much doing it to ourselves anyway.
from Ikoma, Nara
Not scarry enough! I need more destruction and death. These are just baby steps in my opinion. I have faith that we can do better and kill much more people. I want to see real death and destruction weapons. These are just the toys.
Scarry is when we can kill millions and billions with just a simple thought. Now that is a real weapon.
So far all we can do is kill a few hundred thousand or so with a single nuke. Not very scarry at all. We cannot even kill a million in one go yet. Thats not war, that is just playing with the enemy.
When will we finally be able to exterminate an entire nation with a single hit? These are scarry weapons. Even interesting ones.
From your list; Rods of God; just a few thousand dead. Not really much of a weapon. Lasers need to be a trillion times more powerful than the one on your list be be useful as weapons and man portable. At this point a simple US$10,000 missle will turn that billion dollar toy into a piece of junk.
Nano weapons may be one approach to get us there.
Weather modification and earthquake production weapons will be another nice ways to get to where we need to be.
The real problem with most weapons is energy. You simply cannot produce massive effects without reliable sources of energy and effective methods to release energy. So far we just are not there yet.
We need more powerful and effective weapons.
Barnes Wallis designed huge bombs, and the aircraft to carry them. He is best known for his "spinning bomb", which was successfully used in a very significant raid on two huge hydro-electric dams during the 2nd world war. The bomb was spun on an axis at right angles to the flight path, skipped along the water two or three times and then rolled down the underwater face of the dam before exploding.
See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis
The mysterious inventor Nikola Tesla was reputed to have tested a "resonator" which was capable of causing buildings to collapse by exciting the natural resonant frequency of the structure. In any case his research was sufficiently scary that the government impounded all his papers upon his death.
Very good article.
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Thanks for the good information.
from Winnipeg, Manitoba
Some of these are downright terrifying, whilst some are even funny (dolphins with darts)
Anyways
@wrieken, kill a few hundred thousand at most? There's 8 million people in New York City. If an atomic bomb or Rod of God (Anyone else find that name somewhat funny?) hit NYC, the death toll would most definitely be above a couple hundred thousand.
And yeah, I wouldn't even mind dying by a Rod of God..I could be like yeah, I just couldn't take God's Rod....xD
from cairo, N.Y.
That weapon is nothing the way technology is going, we are gonna probably be killed by damn super clones or worse by an ion cannon.
Play command and conquer red alert 2 and you'll see what i mean
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Somebody please tell me my tax $$$ are not actually funding this excercise in goofy-town. Okay, SOME of these projects seem somewhat plausible, and some are just plain "okay, who let the monkeys loose in the milresearch lab again". Then again, some are even a little "Dr. Mengele, paging Dr. Mengele". Scary doesn't even come close.
What about Morocco land mine monkeys? They are a threat to all life everywhere!