Bose Noise Canceling Headphones
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?
What am I missing about this in thinking ear plugs would neutralize such system?
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.
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
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.
Remember, No pirate is illegal! /sarc
"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.
Hmmm---I predict a run on sound-canceling active earpieces.
Shoot the bastards and be done with it.
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
Bose Noise Canceling Headphones
The piracy case in Somalia is a perfect example of victim disarmament at sea. Most merchant ships are forbidden by their countries’ laws from having weapons on board (a ban which is enforced by rigorous inspections), which leaves a 20.000tn ship worth hundreds of million of dollars vulnerable to a pirate dinghy with a crew of five armed with AKs and RPGs worth a few hundred bucks. So do we allow owners to spend a few thousand dollars on weapons and private security on board? God forbid! No, much better to send a carrier group, or just nuke the high seas.
At present the war navies of India, Russia, Britain, the US, Malasya and a NATO taskforce are in the Gulf of Aden playing cat-and-mouse with a few Somali pirates. An EU fleet is on its way.
May I suggest "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (long album cut) by Iron Butterfly?
May I make just a crazy and absurd suggestion that I’m sure would never work,...how about capturing pirates alive, torturing them on live TV, then disembowel them while still alive, and hang their bodies from their own ships before it sinks and the sharks tear them to pieces. Then play it on Somali TV for the kiddies to watch.
Actually, a device that produces holes in the target vessel and its occupants (say, 50 caliber in size) would be far more effective.
Here’s an idea: why don’t they just shoot them and kill them so that they don’t have a chance to attack, hijack, and kill others in the future?
Apparently, they learned this from the same people who believe racking a shotgun within earshot of burglars is a good idea. The strategy is leave us alone but go ahead and rob my neighbor.
Africa is not our concern but some nation should finally put a stop to this by sinking every single ship anchored off the Somalian coast.
How long before the pirates get their own “sonic blasters?” I’m sure that they are available to anyone willing to pay the price, whatever that is.
Cowards, nothing but cowards. And I’m NOT referring to the pirates.
You don’t shoo these people off to attack the next ship that happens past, you hunt down the pirate ships and execute the #*% %$^#@% pirates!
Are the Indians the only people on earth with any manhood left in their leaders?