Posted on 07/06/2008 12:54:30 PM PDT by aft_lizard
A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. ray gun A company plans to create a gun that takes down transgressors with only sound. (Getty/ABC News)
The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) – exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be transmitted to produce recognisable sounds.
The device is aimed for military or crowd-control applications, but may have other uses.
Lev Sadovnik of the Sierra Nevada Corporation in the US is working on the system, having started work on a US navy research contract. The navy's report states that the effect was shown to be effective.
Scarecrow Beam?
MEDUSA involves a microwave auditory effect "loud" enough to cause discomfort or even incapacitation. Sadovnik says that normal audio safety limits do not apply since the sound does not enter through the eardrums.
"The repel effect is a combination of loudness and the irritation factor," he says. "You can't block it out."
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About the only thing they could do would beam rap music directly into me.
Besides, its no different than Jamaal blasting it into me from 6 cars back.
How’s that “brown note” coming?
I can’t help but wonder what happens when all these microwave crowd control devices meet Mr. Corner Cube Reflector.
With Darth Cheney personally firing the first salvo, no doubt; followed by a battalion of BusHitlerNazi stormtroopers....
I heard of something like this in 74.
Hillary and/or Rosie?
That’s right. This device and the device that has the effect of creating a burning skin feeling are blocked by foil. It could make an interesting conflict in the future, looking like something out of a Monty Python movie.
Ronnie Barrett has an effective cure for this kind of equipment.
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