It must be a good year for weapons. Did anyone catch the article a few weeks ago about the machine gun that fires something like one million bullets in one minute? (Not _that_ would be an excellent Quake weapon. ;)
-RC > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Gilchrist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:49 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Atreides sonic gun for planes. > > > Sounds become painful between 120 and 130 decibels. Anything > above that > can cause temporary deafness and disorientation. With this in mind, > Elwood Norris, chairman of American Technologies in San Diego, > California has developed a device that can produce and "fire" > pulses of > sound at over 140 decibels. According to Norris his "directed stick > radiator" with its high-intensity "sonic bullets" will incapacitate > terrorists who try to hijack passenger aircraft, but won't damage the > fuselage, walls or windows. The US Department of Defense is assessing > the technology following the attacks on 11 September. Meanwhile, in > tests of his own, Norris has already created a cut-down version of the > new weapon and turned it on himself. "It almost knocked me on > by butt. I > wasn't interested in anything for quite a while afterwards," > he reports, > and adds, "You could virtually knock a cow on its back with this." > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991564 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
