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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on March 23, 2010, 07:39:20 PM
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100323/D9EKA7GG1.html
Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili
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Mar 23, 6:19 AM (ET)
By WASBIR HUSSAIN
GAUHATI, India (AP) - The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili.
After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday.
The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chili. It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat.
It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeno peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000.
"The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization," Col. R. Kalia, a defense spokesman in the northeastern state of Assam, told The Associated Press.
"This is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hide-outs," R. B. Srivastava, the director of the Life Sciences Department at the New Delhi headquarters of the DRDO said.
Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, said trials are also on to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays to be used by women against attackers and for the police to control and disperse mobs.
I'm a man and I'd carry it.
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I wouldn't even put that on my eggs man.
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Gee, the news media says this like it hasn't been done before. India's advanced technology.....
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India's advanced technology.....
This is India. This is where you call when you have a technical problem with your computer.
(http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/5198/indiacomputerwiring.jpg)
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"Thank You Come Again"......(best Indian Accent works with this one)..... ;D
As a Certified, Licensed Electrician, and otherwise "sane" person, I do not approve of that wiring job,.... :o
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It will light your ass up!
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Has anyone tried that "Bear Spray" pepper spray?? I would be reluctant to shoot at a bear with anything less than a .375 H&H. Bill T.
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"Thank You Come Again"......(best Indian Accent works with this one)..... ;D
As a Certified, Licensed Electrician, and otherwise "sane" person, I do not approve of that wiring job,.... :o
Three men died installing it and their bodies were left buried inside ...to dangerous to try to recover them.... >:( >:(
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Who could you possibly hire to fix it? I got static electricty just from looking at the thing. Crash the local grid get a chainsaw and start again. Yikes!
FQ13
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Probably wrong but I heard once that they are still on DC over in India?
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That looks exactly like the pole outside T/C arms plant . ;D
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A former boss of mine went to Honduras on a church trip a few years back. He showed several photos of poles that he took (for an electrical safety team meeting). He said that basically their rule was that if you climbed the pole and did the hook-up yourself, and survived the adventure, you got free electricity (220v). He said there were multiple electrocutions each year.
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I couldn't resist. Bill T.
(http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5103/indiangenerator.jpg)
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I couldn't resist. Bill T.
(http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5103/indiangenerator.jpg)
Priceless!! ;D