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- From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <absurd-131192125246@seuss.apple.com> <6134@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <1992Nov20.202336.6827@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:05:58 GMT
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- >
- >This may be Urban Legend, but I vaguely remember a story of some police force
- >(the French CRS comes to mind) that thought of using a 'sound cannon' to blast
- >7Hz - 15Hz at rioters, to the effect that their guts would resonate and
- >they would be too busy chucking their lunch to be lobbing Molotovs at the
- >police.
- > I know that standing too near the Bass bins at a rock concert where there
- >is a lot of sub-sonic stuff can really hit you where you live :-)
- > I wonder if sci.med has anything to say on this?
- >
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- 10 Hz triggers a fear/flight reaction in most people (claimed USN
- study), and old telephone bells in the US were tuned 10hz apart to
- make it hard to ignore a ringing phone... (they had maximum resources
- tied up at that point, but the meter wouldn't start running till the
- phone was picked up)
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