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- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
- Message-ID: <184287@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:17:24 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Nov13.134921.1730@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> troberts@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
- >From the help menu of Borland's Turbo C/C++ for DOS.
-
- > : /* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds. :
- Oh yeah, riiiiiiiiight.
-
- > : :
- >Look : True story: 7 Hz is the resonant :
- >here : frequency of a chicken's skull cavity. :
- > : This was determined empirically in :
- > : Australia, where a new factory :
- > : generating 7-Hz tones was located too :
- > : close to a chicken ranch: When the :
- > : factory started up, all the chickens :
- > : died. :
- Allegedly 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of protoplasm in
- general, not chicken skulls. Allegedly the French did some
- playing around with humongous horn-loaded steam-driven speakers
- generating ~7 Hz tones. Big problem was with operator
- comfort..as 7 Hz is not at all directional.
-
- I'd guess that a chicken skull would resonate in the 3 KHz range
- or higher...
-
- >Did the chickens suffer before they died? Did they experience
- >throbbing headaches or just pass out?
- >
- Humans in the area would also have been affected.
-
- >I really wish they had included a journal citation. I think the
- >original article would have been worth reading.
-
- From the National Enquirer maybe.
-