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- From: alizard@Blue.Kludge.COM (A.Lizard)
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- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
- Message-ID: <78PDuB6w165w@Blue.Kludge.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 02:41:41 PST
- References: <1992Nov13.205842.19568@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: 'Lectrick Blue!, Moraga CA
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- > No, the original article is garbage. The story is complete UL - there may
- > even be a FAQ entry.
- >
- > There is no way that 7 hz would be the resonate frequency. Assume that sound
- > travels at 900 ft/second - in the air. That means that a 7Hz sound has a
- > wavelength of over 125 feet. Even for 1/125th wave resonance, this comes to
- > a value over 1 foot. I have never seen any chickens with heads that large.
- >
- > Such fractional wavelength resonances simply do not have any power in them.
- >
- > Bill
-
-
- While the value doesn't look right to me, either, what does the resonance
- frequency of a cavity that is NOT filled with air but with whatever a
- chicken uses for a brain that is suspended in fluid have to do with
- the same cavity filled with air only? The increased mass in the chamber
- is going to reduce the resonant frequency by QUITE a bit.
-
- By the way, the last number I saw for the speed of sound at mean sea
- level is 1150 feet/sec.
-
- I would like someone to dig up the original article. Alternately,
- who's got a chicken, a low frequency audio oscillator, an appropriate
- output and input transducer (to experimentally determine resonance)
-
- A.Lizard
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