After “The Voice Of God”: The Face of Allah Weapon
Researchers are looking at a concept for creating large holograms that could be projected onto a battlefield, according to the New Hampshire. This idea, which has been proposed in the past, typically theorizes that an image of God could be projected.
The most recent mention of this idea is in The New Hampshire, a student newspaper, which explores nonlethal weapons in a fascinating three-part series.The first article, which mentions the hologram weapon, is based on an interview with the head of the Non-Lethal Technology Innovations Center at the University of New Hampshire (also well worth the read in the article is the concept for a “smart dazzler”). This center, like another nonlethal lab at the University of Pennsylvania, has been supported by the Defense Department. “In the concept stage, [Glenn] Shwaery said, are more outlandish weapons such as enormous holograms to incite fear in soldiers on a battlefield.”
It’s unclear if the proposed hologram is something the lab is working on, or just something they’ve heard exists. But projecting the image of something frightening — like a deity — is not a new idea and follows in the footsteps of the Voice of God weapon, a device that some have suggested could be used to transmit messages into people’s head, as if God were speaking to them.
Nor is the God hologram really a new idea, though it’s interesting to see it’s still bandied about; military analyst Bill Akin wrote about this concept back in 1999, which described it as holographic image of Allah. “According to a military physicist given the task of looking into the hologram idea, the feasibility had been established of projecting large, three-dimensional objects that appeared to float in the air,” Arkin wrote. “But doing so over the skies of Iraq? To project such a hologram over Baghdad on the order of several hundred feet, they calculated, would take a mirror more than a mile square in space, as well as huge projectors and power sources. And besides, investigators came back, what does Allah look like?”