Neil deGrasse Tyson
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So it would require...
Enough energy to instantly take your blood to a rolling boil and then evaporate it.
Get rid of all the liquid and then... And then consume the rest of the material.
And that seems to me, it had to take a little longer than how long that took in the movie.
Right, because the other thing too is, if you're talking about that kind of energy, it only did that to the person.
The beam didn't, as it continued, it didn't like shoot holes into the ground.
It didn't take out buildings.
Right, or the plant life behind it.
behind it, only the people, so.
It is very evident that you think about this crap all day long, okay?
Because, well, no, okay, I got one for you.
So the military and large municipalities have what's called non-lethal weaponry.
And the taser is an example of one.
But another one is this truck that rolls around with this huge beam and it sends microwaves into a crowd.
You feel like you're burning.
You feel like your skin is burning, so you want to get out of that beam.
And basically, they aim it for the focus points wherever people are gathering and getting the most ornery.