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2004-03-03

Why donât they just put on Smashing Pumpkins & turn up the volume?

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Posted by rkb 2004-03-03 1:48:19 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 i wonder if it act like the brown noise.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-3-3 1:50:00 PM|| 2004-3-3 1:50:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 sounds like a seriously modified sky satilite dish, a really top system by the 'sound' of it. Anyone know if the 'Active Denial System' the article spoke about is the device that uses microwave beams to heat up peoples skin in the beam area, kinda like being slowly cooked in the microwave - that can't be to nice.

Posted by Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-3 2:11:21 PM|| 2004-3-3 2:11:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Finally, i have been reading articles about this technology since 1985, i had given up hope that those things would ever come online.

Posted by Evert Visser 2004-3-3 3:08:06 PM|| [http://chinditz.blog-city.com/] 2004-3-3 3:08:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I can see this being useful against crowds, but not so effective against a small boat manned by whacky jihadis with ear protectors.

I wonder if it works better than the Phalanx CIWS which emits ear-splitting beams of 20mm projectiles?

Posted by SteveS 2004-3-3 3:47:36 PM|| 2004-3-3 3:47:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dr. Bose joins the war effort?

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-3 5:29:59 PM|| 2004-3-3 5:29:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Jihadi Solidarity Council (okay, I made that up) releasing a statement condemning this in 5...4...3..2...

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-3-3 6:36:03 PM|| 2004-3-3 6:36:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually Steve, if this technology works as advertised, no amount of hearing protection will prevent you from being disabled. The NYT Magazine had a story about six months ago on this product and it's inventor Woody Norris in which it explained that military variant can output a sound that is so devastating and concentrated that even with hearing protection your BONES will vibrate to the point of disability (temporary).

That's why the Navy was so interested because it could knock out guys in a boat, no matter how hard they try to protect their ears, without killing innocent sailors or destroying the boat.

http://www.woodynorris.com/Articles/NewYorkTimesMagazine.htm

For the moment, though, HSS is unfinished business. As night must follow day, there are Defense Department applications. Norris and A.T.C. have been busy honing something called High Intensity Directed Acoustics (HIDA, in house jargon). It is directional sound -- an offshoot of HSS -- but one that never, ever transmits Handel or waterfall sounds. Although the technology thus far has been routinely referred to as a "nonlethal weapon," the Pentagon now prefers to stress the friendlier-sounding "hailing intruders" function.

In reality, HIDA is both warning and weapon. If used from a battleship, it can ward off stray crafts at 500 yards with a pinpointed verbal warning. Should the offending vessel continue to within 200 yards, the stern warnings are replaced by 120-decibel sounds that are as physically disabling as shrapnel. Certain noises, projected at the right pitch, can incapacitate even a stone-deaf terrorist; the bones in your head are brutalized by a tone's full effect whether you're clutching the sides of your skull in agony or not. "Besides," Norris says, laughing darkly, "grabbing your ears is as good as a pair of handcuffs."

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-3-3 7:47:11 PM|| 2004-3-3 7:47:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Certain noises, projected at the right pitch, can incapacitate even a stone-deaf terrorist; the bones in your head are brutalized by a tone's full effect whether you're clutching the sides of your skull in agony or not.

What? What? Oma Gooma Again? What? No really you'll like it, there's nothing funnier that McArthurs farewell speech, yes it's vinyl.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-3 8:01:26 PM|| 2004-3-3 8:01:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Been there, kinda, sorta. Used to have an office at RAF Alconbury that was about 50 yards from the run-up taxiway. We used to get F-111s visiting, two-three times a month, practicing aircraft dispersals. Having a pair of F-111s run up 50 yards away is a significant part of the reason I currently have a 65dB tinnitus problem in the 6KHz range.

Noise can actually kill you, if you get the right frequency at the right sound level. Of course, it'd take something like 200dB+ at a very high pitch to do it, but it's possible. If everybody's rolling on the ground clutching their ears, they can't very well shoot you, can they? Consider another application: attach motion sensors to very LOUD sound systems along the border. The Border Patrol could then just drive along, picking up the whimpering, cringing intruders and hustling them back across the border. You'd end up with a large number of deaf people after awhile (the auditory nerve can only take so much), but it would end your illegal alien problem.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-4 12:03:31 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-4 12:03:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Been there, kinda, sorta. Used to have an office at RAF Alconbury that was about 50 yards from the run-up taxiway. We used to get F-111s visiting, two-three times a month, practicing aircraft dispersals. Having a pair of F-111s run up 50 yards away is a significant part of the reason I currently have a 65dB tinnitus problem in the 6KHz range.

Noise can actually kill you, if you get the right frequency at the right sound level. Of course, it'd take something like 200dB+ at a very high pitch to do it, but it's possible. If everybody's rolling on the ground clutching their ears, they can't very well shoot you, can they? Consider another application: attach motion sensors to very LOUD sound systems along the border. The Border Patrol could then just drive along, picking up the whimpering, cringing intruders and hustling them back across the border. You'd end up with a large number of deaf people after awhile (the auditory nerve can only take so much), but it would end your illegal alien problem.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-3-4 12:04:26 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-3-4 12:04:26 AM|| Front Page Top

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