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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: How to kill chickens with your computer...
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:04:05 GMT
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- mag6@po.CWRU.Edu (Martin A. Gulaian) writes:
-
- >>: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.
-
- >7 Hz might not work on a chicken's head, but what about the body of, say,
- >a dinosaur-sized creature? It might be very effective.
-
- >This is documented in The Garments of Caean, a book by Barrington J. Bayley.
- >It tells about an actual visit to the planet of infra-sound, where giant
- >saurian predators fight subsonic battles with acoustic-tile protected
- >herbivores.
-
- It's been done. Ever see the movie "Ben Hur?" Aside from the
- chariot race, look at the tubas and other horns carried by the legions
- as they march. Those are made of bronze. So?
-
- So bronze has zero overtones. Listen to a french horn. Note
- how it's nice and soft, a muted note with plenty of harmonics to blend
- in? Make it out of bronze, and instead of that GE Soft White sound
- you get a laser beam. The roman army used these in battle. While the
- two sides marched towards each other, deaf guys carrying tubas would
- blow them and the enemy ranks often had blood coming from their ears.
-
- The question is, if you measured the cranial dimension of the
- average human and blew the proper note, what would happen?
-
- Naw, I won't cross-post this to alt.tasteless...
-
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < "This isn't an answer, it's a pagan dance around a midnight fire >
- < written in intellectual runes." -- Rich Young >
-