Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:47:27 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sounds almost Gernsbackian....
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Michael Walsh 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

Whales and dolphins will just *love* it....

--Ted White