Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!linus!philabs!ttidca!sorgatz From: sorgatz@ttidca.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,rec.arts.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Future Police Speculations Needed Message-ID: <1434@ttidca.TTI.COM> Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 15:25:58 EST Article-I.D.: ttidca.1434 Posted: Fri Nov 6 15:25:58 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 18:40:41 EST References: <1463@haddock.ISC.COM> <1824@trex.rutgers.edu> <23473AE4@PSUVMA> <21598@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: sorgatz@ttidcb.UUCP (Erik Sorgatz - Avatar) Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica Lines: 27 Xref: hoptoad alt.cyberpunk:160 rec.arts.sf-lovers:8526 In article <21598@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> max@trinity (Max Hauser) writes: >Fast-acting anesthetics have been a staple soft weapon in science >fiction at least since _Brave New World_ but despite massive >research they seem no more practical today than fifty years ago. > >If anyone knows of innovations on this front I would be interested to >hear of them. Why not -- this bears on the original request for >future police speculations, the more so if the author wants realistic >detail. > Well M-a-a-a-x, it so happens that the CIA *has* been using a flavor of ' this very tech for some moons now. The 'gun' is actually a dart pistol and the charge in the tip is nominally a morphine-deriv mixed with (drum roll please..) D M S O !! That's right! The DMSO causes the drug to move through the system at Warp 9...not much else is known about it, look into an article that was pubb'ed in 'Playboy'..sometime back in the 70's..it was titled: "They Call Me Mr. Death" ...the author explains about the instant sleep dart gun and many other devices the 'Company had him develop. TTFN! -- -Avatar-> (aka: Erik K. Sorgatz) KB6LUY +-------------------------+ Citicorp(+)TTI *----------> panic trap; type = N+1 * 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2973 +-------------------------+ Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun,philabs,randvax,trwrb}!ttidca!ttidcb!sorgatz **