Pirates thwarted with MP3 sonic blast

PhysOrg ^ | November 21, 2008

[DB]

Screw that. Shoot’em for real. Let them bleed and die. We don't need a softer gentler response to piracy on the high seas.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

The problem is somewhat like the story of the Sirens in the Iliad:

How does one avoid hearing the Madonna songs while playing them for the pirates?

[fso301]

What am I missing about this in thinking ear plugs would neutralize such system?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Yep, it’s the old ‘don’t bring a boombox to a rocket launcher fight’ dilemma.

[DB]

We need an unmaned decoy ship for them to steal.

Loaded with explosives.

Let them sail it into their home shores and then set it off.

[Wildbill22]

How expensive would it be to buy a Browning M-2 .50 cal, mount it behind some armor, and man it with some electro-optical/night vision devices? Probably a fraction of the cost of your “non-lethal” politically correct alternative here.
These pirates don’t understand anything but death when it comes to deterring them. I say give it to them liberally and pile their heads on their home land beach.

[Sir_Ed]

This sounds pathetic. “Stay away or we’ll make your ears hurt!”

Why don’t we just send in SEALs and kill them all?

Ed

[Caipirabob]

Leaving them perfectly intact for defenseless ships passing later...

[Wildbill22]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXLEURxozc&feature=related

Scaring them away to fight another day is no solution...
Here are some more permanent solutions to your pirate problems...

[djf]

Probably a 1KHZ square wave.

No big deal, but it could make you spew your guts like that sound in the old Star Trek.

Not lethal and certainly not high tech.

[Txngal]

I can hear the "humanitarians" getting on board to complain in 3, 2, 1....

Remember, No pirate is illegal! /sarc

[timsbella]

“How does one avoid hearing the Madonna songs while playing them for the pirates?”

Stop up ears with wax...tie oneself to the mast...

[rabidralph]

Three skiffs hurtled towards the vessel, but were spotted by the team at five miles away, triggering a full response with evasive manoeuvres, water cannon, an alert to coalition forces -- and the LRAD.

"At two miles they sounded the general alarm. The pirates slowed down at around 600 metres and continued to 400 metres, waving AK47s," Davis said.

But the sonic blast put them off.

I prefer Indiana Jones' cut-to-the-chase solution in the first movie, with the saber-taunting muslim.

[Dixie Yooper]

They already have something like that anchored off shore, a full Saudi tanker. The only problem is the crew might still be on board...

[Wildbill22]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31vm3-BQRJU

You know, these shipping companies don’t have to spend a cent, and they could make a bundle by selling tickets on their oil tankers for a “Redneck Open fire Cruise”, with entertainment as demonstrated above, and I feel sorry for the pirates at this point. BYOG (Bring Your Own Gun), food, ammo, and beer supplied, and you would have waiting lists for spaces available.

[Wonder Warthog]

""It's very effective up to 1,000 metres and excruciating if you get within 100 to 200 metres if it's at full power. It would give you more or less permanent hearing damage."

Hmmm---I predict a run on sound-canceling active earpieces.

Shoot the bastards and be done with it.

[Jimmy Valentine]

You block your ears with wax and tie yourself to the mast like Odyeseus did.

[ChetNavVet]

Recomendations to the brits:
Rob halford - voice craklin, may force a pirate to yar, kill hiself
King Diamond - very irritating to a muzzie, I like it tho
Paul Pott - not po pott, Culture disects thine enemy.
My “hopefully” ex old lady Cindy Lauper - will cause confusion
Ronnie James Dio - what? I wanna rock!
Ian Gillan - To irritate the muzzies, doing Jesus christ super star
That dude singer from green jello. or any other harsh band, Incubus, Metallica, Gwar etc...... Explodes pirates heads on contact

[mewzilla]

LOL! One more....”Indian Love Call” by Slim Whitman.