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2004-03-12 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by tipper 2004-03-12 7:21:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 At least they didn't disclose innerworkings of the fabulous Deano Driver.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-12 8:13:20 AM|| 2004-3-12 8:13:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The baby scream can be projected at such high levels that it can literally leave a victimâs skull vibrating.
Thats actually funny.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-3-12 8:17:59 AM|| 2004-3-12 8:17:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 ...On the other hand, anyone who's actually had to deal with babies can confirm you don't need a sonic cannon to achieve this effect, and one should keep in mind a unexpected effect the USAF found along these lines some years back.
At the E&E school up at Fairchild AFB, WA, the sim POWs were kept awake all night by an endless loop of a baby crying - all, that is, execpt the guys there who were actually parents. They slept like rocks.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-3-12 8:25:25 AM|| 2004-3-12 8:25:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A friend of mine used to joke about his infant daughter's "Dreaded Ultrasonic Baby Shriek."

It's not a joke any more.

Posted by Mike 2004-3-12 8:36:50 AM|| 2004-3-12 8:36:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Marine Colonel Peter Dotto told the American ABC network: "They would have to come out and they probably would come out with their hands over their ears so they would be very easy to subdue at that point."

Or just, you know, shoot them.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2004-3-12 9:32:03 AM|| 2004-3-12 9:32:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Not to mention the chemical warfare attacks by diapered babies... What is that green stuff anyway?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-3-12 9:36:37 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-3-12 9:36:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Could this please go in the Classics?

Posted by Steve from Relto 2004-3-12 10:10:25 AM|| 2004-3-12 10:10:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I fear we are entering into a dangerous arms race. What will happen when Al Quaida scientists develop
the "Jihadi number 5" perfume for use against US troops?

Posted by JFM 2004-3-12 11:35:39 AM|| 2004-3-12 11:35:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I fear we are entering into a dangerous arms race. What will happen when Al Quaida scientists develop
the "Jihadi number 5" perfume for use against US troops?

Posted by JFM 2004-3-12 11:56:09 AM|| 2004-3-12 11:56:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Next: details of the "World's Funniest Joke", a diabolically clever weapon first used against the Huns in WWI...

Posted by mojo 2004-3-12 12:14:16 PM|| 2004-3-12 12:14:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm assuming $1.95 ear plugs from Ace Hdwr won't block the death ray...

Posted by Hyper 2004-3-12 1:05:22 PM|| 2004-3-12 1:05:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "The baby scream can be projected at such high levels that it can literally leave a victimâs skull vibrating."

I think all baby's do that.

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