Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 12:31:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sounds almost Gernsbackian....
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:

> Shock Tactics
> The US Navy is considering a defence system that
> destroys incoming
> torpedoes by firing high-powered acoustic shockwaves
> at them. Ships
> with the system would be decked out with hundreds of
> transducers,
> each 1 metre square, running along the hull under
> the waterline.
> When an incoming torpedo is detected, the
> transducers fire a focused
> pulse of such crushing force that the incoming
> weapon is disabled or
> destroyed. As you might imagine, these are no
> ordinary loud
> speakers...
>
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18825205.800
>
Creaky-voiced old-timer to grandkids, circa 2050:
"And that's how we doomed dolphins and killer whales
to extinction, boys and girls..."

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