#plasma shield

Last month Elon musk started a company, that he said, would be implanting neural laces into human Brains.

If humans are becoming transhumans their greatest threat is electromagnetism and EMP shocks. transhumans would need to have some type of mini transportable shield to protect their technology.

Whether it’s laser pistols or lightsabers, all sci-fi movies have advanced weapons and defenses that are thought to be impossible to create in the real world. With their most recent patent of a “plasma shield”, Boeing is starting to blur the line between those sci-fi worlds and this one.

The device’s capabilities aren’t as sci-fi as one might think from the name.  Boeing’s current design only has the power to lessen the effects of explosive detonations in the proximity of the field’s emitter. The shield does this through a combination of several technologies heating up the air between the vehicle and the explosion, causing the gas to become plasma, which is more dense than the surrounding air, deflecting the explosive force around the “shield.” The field is currently slow to start, but it can be maintained over distance. To put it simply, the field could be mounted on a vehicle and be active while the vehicle is in motion. Even with such low-current implications, the influence of the device will be enormous for military vehicles and buildings in need of protection.

With the “war on terror” against groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda, a large number of military casualties come from IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) planted along roads. If military vehicles in areas occupied by the militants were equipped with the shield, it would exponentially increase the likelihood that those manning the vehicle would survive. Though its current limits would not protect from the shrapnel, it could protect civilian buildings in war zones from nearby explosions.

Boeing has no plans to stop research into the device’s capabilities, hoping that future designs could stop projectiles and shrapnel fired at vehicles and buildings with the device in use.     

                                                               Works Cited

Gough, Myles. "Boeing Has Patented a Plasma 'force Field' to Protect Against