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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Offensive use of Sound possible?
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Date: 22 Jan 91 02:18:25 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: tipmo@oak.circa.ufl.edu
>	... I know that sound waves 
>can be quite destructive if focused/handled/played-with enough and I was
>wondering if the military has looked into this destructive capability...

Generating really high-power sound waves, and focussing them usefully,
is relatively difficult.  By far the easiest way to generate a powerful
sound pulse is one that is already in use:  detonate an explosive charge
and let the blast wave do damage.
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If the Space Shuttle was the answer,   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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