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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.094448.21088@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Nov19.005909.5564@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:44:48 GMT
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- PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
- :
- : >This was discussed, to some length, a year or so back. It is all
- : >based on experiments done by the French, around the time of the
- : >First World War, involving using low frequencies as a weapon on
- : >the battlefield. They found they could generate the lethal waves,
- : >the problem being that they are non-directional - so the person
- : >operating the equipment was also killed, along with the intended
- : >victims.
- :
- : Ahem. Actually, it was the Nazis of WW11. Follows
- : stuff from authoritative sources(tm) :
-
- ... good authoratative stuff deleted ...
-
- Maybe the tests that the French did prompted the Germans to do their
- experiments. The testing I was talking about was conducted in the early
- part of the century - it used a system like a giant siren to generate
- the signal.
-
- Bill
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