{"id":50,"date":"2004-01-22T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/50"},"modified":"2004-01-22T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2004-01-23T03:00:42","slug":"who-volunteered-for-this-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/50","title":{"rendered":"Who Volunteered For <i>This<\/i> Mission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of firing bullets, the Taser gun shoots out two metal barbs tethered to long wires. As soon as the barbs find their target, the wires transmit a 50,000-volt shock &#8211; enough to floor the most aggressive of individuals. The victim recovers when the current is turned off.<\/p>\n<p>Taser International&#8217;s government affairs spokesman, Steve Tuttle, claims the company has proved &#8220;beyond a shadow of a doubt&#8221; that the guns are safe to use on planes. Mobile phones may occasionally cause problems because of the frequency of their signals, but the Taser is more like a weak lightning bolt, which the avionics are designed to cope with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have fired the Taser into every piece of equipment aboard every platform that United Airlines has, trying to damage it &#8211; without success,&#8221; says Tuttle. He also reports that <i>they managed to land an Airbus on autopilot while repeatedly discharging a stun gun in the cockpit<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/\">New Scientist<\/a> 17 January 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of firing bullets, the Taser gun shoots out two metal barbs tethered to long wires. As soon as the barbs find their target, the wires transmit a 50,000-volt shock &#8211; enough to floor the most aggressive of individuals. The victim recovers when the current is turned off. Taser International&#8217;s government affairs spokesman, Steve Tuttle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}