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- From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
- Summary: Well, Jerry Lewis *is* their comedic ideal...
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 18:39:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.134921.1730@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <zlsiida.435@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> <adamsd.722304406@crash.cts.com>
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- In article <adamsd.722304406@crash.cts.com> adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas) writes:
- +In <zlsiida.435@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
- +>I seem to recall something from about 20 to 25 years ago about a Frenchman
- +>who built a gigantic whistle that was supposed to produce a frequency (plus
- +>overtones) at around 7Hz, and when it was switched on the operator died and
- +
- +But I recall a
- +cover picture of an array (7 x 7?) of large metal whistles with rubber tubes
- +from each of them trailing out of frame. Inside was a fairly lurid article
- +dealing with the "death ray" properties of infrasonics. They mentioned
- +experimenters pointing the pictured 7 Hz. device at a tree full of monkeys
- +(this may have been a French colony) and watching the monkeys fall out of
- +the trees.
-
- ...having laughed themselves to death, one presumes.
-
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- Al B. Wesolowsky Boston o "En Cee Cee One Seven Oh One....
- abw@crsa.bu.edu University o No bloody 'A', 'B', 'C', or 'D'."
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