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Topic started on 13-11-2004 @ 08:37 PM by sardion2000
I've seen alot of talk and speculation about what the US, Russia and China are developing and deploying in the next 25 years but little about what will become the 21st centuries Superweapons that will probably emerge around the 2050s give or take a decade or two either way. Some people will say particle weapons, laser weapons and even anti-matter bombs.

My opinion on the matter is that the Next Generation Super weapons is rather different. I think small, well nanoscopic to be exact. Some of the theoretical weapons I have read about are the fearsom(yet fictional) Nanobots that will turn the world into grey goo, but I think it is highly implausible. Here is an example of a much simpler but much more scary method of mass mayhem.....


www.technovelgy.com...
Cookie-Cutters
Very small (corpuscle-sized) devices that can enter the blood stream and destroy an enemy from within.

"Microscopic invaders were more of the threat nowadays. Just to name one example, there was the Red Death, a.k.a. the Seven Minute Special, a tiny aerodynamic capsule that burst open on impact and released a thousand or so corpuscle-sized bodies, known colloquially as cookie-cutters, into the victim's bloodstream. It took about seven minutes ... for the cookie cutters to be randomly distributed throughout the victim's organs and limbs.

A cookie-cutter was shaped like an aspirin tablet ... two tiny centrifuges. Detonation dissolved the bonds holding the centrifuges together so that each of a thousand or so ballisticules suddenly flew outward...The victim was just a big leaky sack of undifferentiated gore at this point and, of course, never survived."
From The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson.
Published by Bantam Books in 1995


The key to this particular weapon is the sudden release of the kinetic energy concealed in the paired spinning ballisticules.


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