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"Centrifugal weapon"

[URL]http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7365[/URL]

Nasty. It's called DREAD too. Nice.

[Edit] Holly ____. Check out the video...

Paradox: wrote:
> Why the hell is quicktime so DAMN SLOW

It's the server - nothing to do Quicktime.

My Bloody Valentine used to play at a volume that hurt, literally.
They had a section called "The Holocaust" which was just a squall of noise, several people had nosebleeds and fainted.

But the loudest gig I've ever personally been to was Ministry & NIN at Brixton Academy. Christ, my chest hurt for 2 days afterwards and I swear I was sterile for nearly a year. Awesome gig though.

monkey_man wrote:
> My lecturers were worried for me.

The KLF (Uh uH, 3am is gonna rock you) Had a sonic tank, that was supposedly making cows miscarrage.

Meat Beat Manifesto did a Set whereby the bass was so deep, the toilets overflowed, as the crowds bowels went into uproar.

None lethal weapons are definately there...

The nation is counting on you.

Not anymore I can't - left the degree! Will go back one day, promise.

Good stuff, you can be a 'sound' military advisor.

Nothing of the sort. The idea was to induce temporary deafness by means of an electronic 'bomb' that would calculate and reverse things like the phase angles of sound waves in the atmosphere (within range), causing no sound to occur. Look up how speakers work, it's basic stuff, really. The devices already exist commercially as a means of cancelling out sound, so it wasn't a big deal really. I think they were more concerned that someone in the same building wanted to make such a thing!

Sonic disruptors are already used intrusively and psychologically (look at Waco), I think what I was developing would be better put to use disguising troop movements. Although I was looking at numerous ideas, so more harmful 'weapons' could have come into play.

Shame, would be interesting to see mass armies apparently "faint".

It was based partly on speaker cone theory, partly on how the ear receives sounds, and partly on how surround sound is coded and decoded. I had it worked out better on paper, and it's late, and it never got very far anyway before I withdrew. The theory was quite solid though - had a few deep discussions with some lecturers, one of whom worked for the MoD.

monkey_man wrote:
> That's quite interesting. Before I left Uni I started a project on
> the development and deployment of sonic weapons, with the ultimate
> goal of building and testing a prototype based on disrupting common
> Human frequencies of hearing - essentially a wall of silence, but
> could be inverted to shock the eardrums

How does that work exactly? By emitting a sound of a varying high frequency? Or something like that....