the latest things to keep a mind turning…

An amoeba found in lakes that can eat your brain by attaching itself to your olfactory nerve. I am not kidding, this is a real thing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21034344/from/ET/

The brown gun, a weapon so intense that it can leave its victims writhing in pain from its ultra-sonic reverberations, resulting in complete bowel control. Effectively “poohing all over oneself”. The point of the following article is not that, but made me think of the definition below for a minute.

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/26975

Another piece from that one—

Neural Disruptor (3 FP, auto wounding, Non-lethal Wound Effects, Max Range 6″)
The Neural Disruptor is a high-tech development in neurological weaponry. It is a rifle, powered by a powerful battery pack. When discharged, it automatically affects any target it hits by disrupting their voluntary nervous system. This disruption tends to render the targets hors de combat. The victims tend to have no control of voluntary responses, but autonomic responses have not been affected, so breathing, pumping blood, etc. continue without disruption. This would be the ideal weapon for crowd dispersion and riot suppression (and even some military actions) if it weren’t for the fact that these weapons are very expensive, people still tend to get broken bones, etc. from falling down when hit with this weapon, and studies show some individuals (about 0.3%) do suffer autonomic nervous dysfunction which may result in death. Also some studies indicate that habitual protestors and rabble rousers, when shot repeatedly with this weapon, may develop long term central nervous system disorders and experience rapid degeneration of the myelin sheathing.

I kept thinking to myself that this weapon would be most useful in combat situations because the mortality rate would be much less in capture situations–if not for the low range of effectiveness. Dammit! Half of me is thinking that these more creative ways of hurting people are RIdICulous, and the other half is thinking..no more blood and exploding bodies, please.

Life is still fun and exciting…I love you school!

A word on the President of Iran coming to campus–I wasn’t there since there were only 600 tickets sold and the lines opened while I was in class. Everyone thought he said a lot of “nothing”, but found it interesting that he denied homosexuals existed in his country. I hadn’t planned on caring that he was coming until Eddie pointed out that it would be like Saddam coming to campus. I didn’t think of it as going to a movie until then, but whatever.

And finally, the Myanmar craziness and the photo and subsequent videos of the Japanese videographer who was killed by the military. It’s amazing to me that they can go off killing Buddhist monks and think that’s going to ever, in any possible way, be justified.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/396145/kenju_nagai_japanese_videographer_killed.html

This world is freaking crazy right now.

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