Posted on 03/26/2015 9:49:37 AM PDT by wyowolf
Two engineering students at George Mason University have found a way to use sound waves to quash fires and have built a type of extinguisher using what they have learned that they hope will revolutionize fire fighting technology. Viet Tran a computer engineering major and Seth Robertson, an electrical engineering major, chose to investigate the possibility of using sound to put out fires as a senior research project and now believe they have found something that might really work.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-students.html#jCp
I read the other day where they have found that lasers and sound waves can be used to influence magnetic fields. Years ago, a pseudo-science believer told me sound waves were on the electromagnetic spectrum. That remains hooey. This is a weird crossover, tho.
I hate the almost yearly fires although we’ve gotten a better handle on them here in L.A.
Hopefully it works.
We did the same when Clinton appeared on the tube.
Today, I would gladly exchange Bill’s voice for that of Hussein’s.
I know of a bunch of cars that now have a real purpose.
“Turn down your damned car radio! It’s too loud.”
“No way, man, it saves lives.”
“What?”
“You don’t see any cars on fire around here, do you?”
“No.”
“You’re welcome.”
It’s gotten so bad, that even if *I* READ this words/remarks/comments, I have to close the browser and back away from the keyboard.
Literally cannot stomach his statements. Perhaps it’s a sort of protection against the brainwashing?
Where’s the “Favorite” button on here???
Muad'Dib
"This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air."
I have applied this procedure in real life. (War story follows:)
In the barracks, one of my buddies was terrorizing people by using a spray can of deodorant and a lighter. By igniting the product as it came out of the can, he had an improvised flame-thrower.
Sensible people were evacuating the area around him, and then he turned toward me.
As he approached, flaming light-saber in hand, I analyzed the situation. The problem presented was not the contents of the spray can; it wasn’t Raid and I wasn’t a cockroach. No, the problem to be dealt with was the tiny flame at the top of his lighter.
I reached around the flame and waved my hand to extinguish his candle. It worked.
He stood there aghast and amazed that his flame had gone out. “How’d you do that?” he asked.
We wizards have our secrets. In this case, I was using sound logic, having sent in a wave-front to put out the flame.
Absolutely brilliant!
I must say, this has been a fine evening....
Waiter, my check please ?
I watched a guy with a bass cannon speaker in his trunk start a song up.
Problem was, the tube was aimed at the edge of his rear windshield.
For the briefest of seconds you could see the sound wave propagate across his windshield.
Followed by the windshield shattering.
Yes, I laughed at him.
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