Ummm… Hello people! Do not forget that Prez. Trump created the Space Force! He stated we have and are working on weapons “the likes you have never seen”. Whooo… Merica 
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Not quite what I really want, and not currently civilian-legal, but real. Let’s hope some arms-control laws get overturned, and that we can have our own PHASR!
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I like it! Though what would be the legality of shooting others with a phaser? Could I should my mother in law when she acts particularly uppity or would this be considered Assault? I’m pretty sure that any judge and jury that met her would absolutely consider it justified but still…have to consider it.
Also…what happens if you don’t time it properly and the deer wakes up…last thing you want is a pissed off deer running through your house. If that did happen, you’d likely also want to stun your wife to collect your thoughts and things and run like hell!! 
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just put it on stun so later you can figure out if you really want them around.
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What if you have a hard time getting to sleep?
Can you stun yourself?
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Imagine that 
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I’d be more afraid of the Mrs. Using it on me just like the taser story in another thread
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My burnin question is “Can a phaser be used for hair removal or hair growth stimulation?” Maybe some intermediate setting. I was asking for those community bros that may be follicly challenged.
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Set to stun, only if it is an in-law would the kill setting be justified (I would have said mother-in-law, but mine was always good to me). 
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I just worry about THE FLY…
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I have seen the stun setting fail several times. I don’t trust it. A motivated opponent can fight through even Heavy Stun.
I saw Riker (who I don’t like) shoot an assassin several times on ever increasing levels of stun, and she didn’t ever fall. Eventually he had to disintegrate her.
My main problem with Star Trek weapons is the lack of sights.
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If you think about it, that already happens to some extent.
Fax machines, email, photos… we send something tangible from one end, it becomes broken down to component parts, atomic level, molecular level, radio frequency… and reappears at the other end.
How far off could it be that actual physical living matter is dematerialized and sent on a frequency and rematerialized at the destination…
But, as sometimes happens with files and photos, there is corrupted files in transmission… and they will not open.
Hate to be the corrupted file.
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The thing about phasers is that when set on kill, they don’t leave a body. Talk about challenging forensics.
You: Pew Pew!
Attacker: Turns to vapor.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along now.
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Disintegrate. That way there’s no embarrassing evidence if it goes off while you’re carrying AIWB.
Of course it is moot if you’re talking about the civilian models which only have the stun setting and have limited number of shots due to recent legislation banning high capacity power packs.
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I forgot about that @George80…the Assault Phaser Ban of 2215…
lol
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I don’t mind them making a copy. But they’re not destroying the original.
But think it could make an army faster than cloning (star wars). Replicate a Division, already on foreign soil😝
Start Trek could’ve had a few thousand Kirks😂
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is that like a good hickory baton? I’d like the police to get an advanced weapon like this 
On a more serious note, you guys ever seen Tucker on Fox, say something about NYT report and Pentagon and material evidence of technology not of this world? It immediately made me think of Bob Lazar, and his tall tales. Maybe they are not such tall tales. You know, Space Force has been established. Old Bob Lazar was telling about Solar Warden, who knows maybe Space Force has been around longer than we know.
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Well, we have energy weapons on ships now, lasers specifically. Science marches on and the general public is not usually either informed, nor knowledgeable about the science involved to really understand. After all, of possible energy-based weapons, lasers are pretty simple, and could be built from scratch for just a few hundred dollars, if you have tools and a good lathe.
Moving on to ‘particle beams’ is another issue altogether. We’re already finding out that you can only pump so much power into a beam before the air it’s passing through explosively expands, seriously compromising the weapon’s capability. Pulsed weapons will likely be the way to go, but adding matter to the beam will drastically slow it down, as a laser is speed of light, and matter cannot even come close without miles and miles of super-conducting magnets - such as CERN’s accelerator.
But, science marches on, and who knows what our grandkids will see.
No more pew pew, just an “Ominous Hum”, and then…
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As happens all over the world, once started one can’t escape the Star Wars vs. Star Trek discussion, regardless of the specific topic.
I just want a replicator and a holodeck and you’ll never hear from me again.
Don’t get me going on which Star Trek series is best (Voyager, obviously…).
And then there is the reimagined Battlestar Galactica (which was awesome).
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