> Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
>  > ... it's a sort of super EMP/radio wave device
>  > that only effects the human neruo-muscular [system]
>  > while leaving the brain undamaged and intact.
>  > In short, the victim has no control over his
>  > voluntary muscles but can breath and otherwise function.
> <snip>
>  > My question to the list is thus:
>  > How possible are they in reality?

There are surgical meds that have this effect. They paralyze the
voluntary muscles but don't affect the heart or lungs.

In the 1960s, there were tests of a riot control agent based on them.

Apparently the gas worked it's way up the spine. So at first you'd
lose control of toes, then ankles, lower leg, upper leg, etc.

So you'd pretty much have to sort of squat, then sit, then lie down.

This would also give folks in cars and the like time to pull over and
park.

So if you make it a gas rather than an "EMP" bomb, it'd be doable.