Talk:Particle beam weapon

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I'm not able to find any evidence of this supposed "B.E.A.R. project" that's referenced in the article, either here or the internet at large. Aside from that, there are no references for this article whatsoever, and much of it (including BEAR) seems apocryphal. siafu 23:49, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well I did. [1] Maybe you should put this as a reference? --Kyleca 00:14, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Or you could. The paper was published pre-launch, however, so we're still short on info beyond that. siafu 00:23, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This "B.E.A.R. Project" is tinfoil hat garbage. The only references I can find about it are from websites that discuss "chemtrails"and that kind of thing. I can't find anythng non-electronic, and non-batshit crazy. Suggest we remove the "B.E.A.R. Project" stuff completely. GodHead 06:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Found a pentagon report abstract, looks like the B.E.A.R. Project was real.[2] Bigshot 05:17, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The idea that you cannot shield a target from a particle beam is patent nonsense. To damage a target a weapon must interact with the materials it's composed of. If it will interact with the matter of the target, it will react with shielding. Think about it: if a weapon was totally immune to shielding, it would mean it passes through all matter unchanged, which would make a somewhat useless weapon since it would go right through the target without harming it in the slightest--70.70.143.237 12:29, 2 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Verbs

So, looking at the article, I've got a question about the verbs used. I see verbs in the present tense, indicative mood: ionizes, uses, damages. I also note that none of those are cited. I then see some cited sentences with conditional verbs: would negate, [if]... can be generated. And there's another section, where citations, at least one of questioned reliability, indicate that particle beam weapons in a non-fictional setting never proceeded beyond experimentation that ended by the late 1980s. Thus, I ask, are or were particle beam weapons ever real, and if not, why does the article describe how they work as though they were real? The Literate Engineer 06:28, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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