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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4984750" data-attributes="member: 19675">Well, gunpowder &amp; dumb projectiles are a fairly effective and reliable tech, so we'll probably be seeing some form of guns for a while.However, we are starting to see increasingly &quot;sci-fi&quot; type weaponry make it to the RW practical level.In the past 15 years, we've seen not 1 but 2 man-made materials exceed the hardness of diamond; glue-guns a-la Marvel Comics' Trapster's deployed in the Persian Gulf; sonic weapons go from FutureWeapons to deployment in the war against piracy and for crowd control; and lasers capable of disorienting or even harming humans get down to the size of a night-watchman's flashlight- you can find ads for them in the backs of Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and other magazines for $1000-3000 each.I've even seen reports about advances in Iron Man style body armor w/artificial muscles and a cloaking system that reminds one of the Predator movies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4984750, member: 19675"] Well, gunpowder & dumb projectiles are a fairly effective and reliable tech, so we'll probably be seeing some form of guns for a while. However, we [I]are[/I] starting to see increasingly "sci-fi" type weaponry make it to the RW practical level. In the past 15 years, we've seen not 1 but 2 man-made materials exceed the hardness of diamond; glue-guns a-la Marvel Comics' Trapster's deployed in the Persian Gulf; sonic weapons go from FutureWeapons to deployment in the war against piracy and for crowd control; and lasers capable of disorienting or even harming humans get down to the size of a night-watchman's flashlight- you can find ads for them in the backs of Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and other magazines for $1000-3000 each. I've even seen reports about advances in Iron Man style body armor w/artificial muscles and a cloaking system that reminds one of the Predator movies. [/QUOTE]

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