Wasp--Explosive Knife

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When I first read about this thing in a british newspaper article about the new "Terror weapon", a knife that could "cause a man to explode from a single stab", I figured it had to be a load of bull. Appears to be legit though. Interesting stuff.
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"This weapon injects a frozen ball of compressed gas approximately the size of a basketball at 800psi nearly instantly. The effects of this injection will drop many of the world's largest land predators. The effects of the compressed gas not only cause over-inflation during ascent when used underwater, but also freezes all tissues and organs surrounding the point of injection on land or at sea. When used underwater, the injected gas carries the predator to the surface BEFORE blood is released into the water. Thus giving the diver added protection by diverting other potential predators to the surface."

Website: http://www.waspknife.com/index.php

Seems like a pretty cool idea.....:D....cool idea, I slay me! Sort of a new approach to the whole knifely weapon system, although I suppose in reality, it is just a sharp delivery system for the compressed liquid gas. Sort of like a giant needle. It just occured to me that you could add a sparking mechanism and use compressed oxygen for the gas. FWOOM! A literally explosive knife.

Thoughts, opinions, comments?
 
if i am not mistaken, that knife is made for divers, like a anti shark knife.
now i don't mean that divers sould swim around playing rambo on the sharks, but as a self defense against sharks it should work well.
 
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Wow...I have nothing intelligent to say at all about that. :D
 
ZcouT said:
.... as a self defense against sharks it should work well.
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I haven't played with one or anything....but I would think that it would work pretty well as self defense against anything you can stab long enough to push the little button on. I guess it might just squirt the knife back out of the wound, although that would be kind of cool too I guess.
 
Could it get my beer cold when I'm camping?

That would be cool. :cool: :thumbup:

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knives for sharks .you guys got it all mixed up . .223 for sharks thats what we use in fl
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Nice... Another excuse for the sheeple to see knives as weapons..:rolleyes::thumbdn::thumbdn:
 
it looks "gimmicky-mouse" to me. ;) If you gotta be that close to a large predator to stick it...you're probably toast or close to being toast.

They do have 4 handle options to choose from though :rolleyes:

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First of all, I think that at 800 psi the thing would kick-back like a mule causing some minor intentional harm.

Second of all, for a diver, try a bang sick. Works every time.
 
I meant to look that up when I saw the ad in Blade....just....weird....



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So shall we start a book on how long this knife will be about before they ban it?

I'm thinking it may slip under the radar for a couple of months until some kid stabs himself with his dads' knife when he's underage and drunk at a party. Then the family will call for the ban.

Other than that i'd like to do the old, tap a watermelon, upend a bottle of vodka into it, allow to soak overnight then give it a jab with this blade. Cold sort of be like a watermelon slushee or watermelon chunkee.
 
I was really hoping someone would have one and be able to tell me if they work. Looking at it, I would tend to think it would jet propel itself out of anything you stab.
 
RoyalM said:
So shall we start a book on how long this knife will be about before they ban it?
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Birmingham Mail lifted the WASP youtube video and posted it attached to their article. The Makers have already responded that they do not sell in the UK.

So.... unless people are ordering it from overseas from a distributor, it is just a case of UK papers fear mongering and drumming up business.
 
what kind of strength/speed would it take to penetrate living sharkskin in the water? Newton's third law, etc.

And as others have observed. it does seem like the same law would make the knife squirt out of the wound, unless the gas ports were placed to drive it deeper, and that doesn't look like the gizmo works that way.

The thing could certainly be used to cool beer, though, so it would be useful.

Still, maybe we could start a pool on how long it takes for a ban to go into place. I don't think they'll wait for an event using the thing... I think they'll try to outlaw a whole class of items, and end up covering certain types of cork removers that work on the same principle, and maybe turkey basters:)
 
Call me a mall ninja, but I've gotta get me one of these! It's so incredibly useless and gratuitiously offensive to polite society that it's a must. We need a test report on the insta-freeze watermellon anyway. :D
 
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