Although many of us have MW ovens, I can name like one Saw movie and one DIY channel that showed it’s potential to melt things, and I watch\read a lot of gore and torture on the web. It won’t be used in a military context due to how power consumption and short distance make it useless. But in a Home Alone situation it seems promising, especially as a trap because you won’t stop anyone with that immidiately.

My qustions are:

  1. How a breaf exposure is dangerous, and can it be used not to harm but to scare off?
  2. How it’d be treated legally due to it’s weirdness?
  3. What are general downsides of that, like reflecting it back to the sender or dealing irreversible fatal damage etc?

I’m stupid at basic physics so I’m sure I miss something.

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    5·
    5 months ago

    I don’t think most people will ever have access to a maser under any circumstances. If I am wrong, please let me know.

    I wasn’t able to find much in the way of maser lethality, but apparently a 15w maser broadcasters can send photos to earth from Mars.

    Edit:

    I found this scurrilous web page that indicates a $1,500 “Maser rife” can kill 71 cows on a single charge but for some reason people only get knocked unconscious by it.

    https://maserbeamrifle.com/

    He also admits to what can only be a felony, but idk. Reads like BS to me.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yes they are still rather experimental and uncommon types of lasers. But proper death Ray material.