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| One of the most fearsome sounds known to
humans: a baby
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Sound to make an army flee
Foreign Staff
A NEW sonic weapon being developed for the Pentagon makes use of
one of the most fearsome sounds known to humans: a baby crying.
Once aimed at the enemy, a focused beam of the familiar noise,
played backwards, will be painful enough to make enemy soldiers run for
their lives, according to its developers. They call it the ��sonic
bullet��.
There are 50 soundtracks to choose from, and they are
played at 140 decibels. That is akin to standing beneath a passenger jet
as it takes off. Hardly surprising, then, that the weapon causes an
intense headache in its victim.
For years armies have used sound,
speech, or radio broadcasts as a propaganda weapon. US troops invading
Panama blasted the besieged General Manuel Noriega with loud rock music.
Nazi Germany used sound in torture.
But the "hypersonic sound
system" beams sound along two ultrasonic signals to produce noise only
when they hit the target. The weapon�s user doesn�t hear a thing.
It has been suggested for use in crowd-control, to clean al-Qaeda
terrorists out of caves, or as a ship-to-ship device that goes one better
than the shot across the bows.
A hand-held version of the weapon -
a thin tube about a yard long, dubbed a "directed stick radiator" - might
in theory be used against hijackers in a plane cockpit, though the
bouncing beams could deafen passengers as well.
The firm which
developed the system, American Technology Corporation, has won approval
from the US Food and Drug Administration to market it. It also hopes to
offer the device for use in drinks machines. Someone in front of one would
hear the sound of a can opening with an enticing
fizz. |
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