And now for something completely different... I think I've come up with a way to create (something like) heat vision without breaking The Rules. Offered
for criticism, consideration, and possibly a contribution to Kara:
There are some medical procedures, mostly used in cancer treatement, that use a wave of microwave radiation to destroy malignant tissue without requiring
surgery. The problem with the first-generation technique was that it also destroyed healthy tissue on the microwaves' path. The second generation uses two
microwave emitters, each delivering a less-than-fatal dosage, that intersect at the malignant tissue. The cancer gets a fatal dosage from the combined effects,
while the tissue around it doesn't.
Now, take those two emitters, miniaturize them so they'll fit behind cyborg eyes (using the eyes' lenses for focusing - handwave the lenses as
necessary), and give them a 'waved power supply. You probably won't have much range - 10 meters at most, I'd guess - but you'd have an attack
that (slowly) heats whatever she's looking at.
(No, I don't intend to use this in-story. That's why I'm offering it here...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
for criticism, consideration, and possibly a contribution to Kara:
There are some medical procedures, mostly used in cancer treatement, that use a wave of microwave radiation to destroy malignant tissue without requiring
surgery. The problem with the first-generation technique was that it also destroyed healthy tissue on the microwaves' path. The second generation uses two
microwave emitters, each delivering a less-than-fatal dosage, that intersect at the malignant tissue. The cancer gets a fatal dosage from the combined effects,
while the tissue around it doesn't.
Now, take those two emitters, miniaturize them so they'll fit behind cyborg eyes (using the eyes' lenses for focusing - handwave the lenses as
necessary), and give them a 'waved power supply. You probably won't have much range - 10 meters at most, I'd guess - but you'd have an attack
that (slowly) heats whatever she's looking at.
(No, I don't intend to use this in-story. That's why I'm offering it here...)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012