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- From: cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline)
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
- Message-ID: <cline.722101647@plum.cs.scarolina.edu>
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Nov13.134921.1730@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <1992Nov13.205842.19568@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 15:47:27 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
-
- |troberts@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu writes:
- |: /* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds.
- |:
- |: 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.
- |:
- |: Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone. */
- |:
- |: int main(void)
- |: {
- |: sound(7);
- |: delay(10000);
- |: nosound();
- |: }
- |:
- |: Did the chickens suffer before they died? Did they experience
- |: throbbing headaches or just pass out?
- |:
- |: I really wish they had included a journal citation. I think the
- |: original article would have been worth reading.
- |
- |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.
-
- On the other claw, considering the way that chicken barns are built, 7Hz
- might have been the resonant frequency of the hen house, leading to a huge
- power build up and thus shaking the chickens to death!
- --
- Ernest Cline cline@cs.scarolina.edu "GO COCKS! BEAT CLEMSON!"
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