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Sonic Bomb
Topic Started: May 29 2009, 11:10 PM (1,300 Views)
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I have came up with a new idea of a terrible weapon of mass destruction, the sound bomb. It is a sphere covered in tiny speakers dropped onto a ground target. Each tiny speaker on the sphere outputs a hyptersonic sound that is extremly high in power that theoretically, could destroy everything in a limited range. Any living thing is crushed to a bloody pulp, buildings become piles of sand, and produces a shockwave that destroys everything else.

I just wanted to bring the idea up to see wether it is plausible or not.
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Sound could be used as a weapon, but what you suggest would probably not be effective. Not more effective than a conventional weapon anyway.
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Not be effective how? Meaning that it isn't quite realistic, or it carries too much power to be practical?
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I don't know if it would work, and even if you could make a blast with speakers using chemical explosives would probably be must cheaper easer and more compact.

I suppose if it is possible you could create a totally clean blast with no residue, for assassinations etc. But like the man who cuts his finger prints off, the very lack of anything would show what was used.
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I don't think a drop-bomb with this technique would work, but perhaps a reusable mine? Be a great way to stop an invasion.
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Focused sound blasts would probably be better.
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What if you just banged tow pieces of metal together really hard. That would me far more effective.
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Yes; however it is also what Kent Hovind does in his spare time.
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He makes primitive atomic weapons?
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No, banging two pieces of metal
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Which is what you do with a Gun-type fission weapon
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I meant jsust smacking two coins together.
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They already have that. The military and police throw it through windows of buildings that contain targets and it releases a high pitched sound that brings everyone who hears it to their knees. It's impossible to make one of the size you describe because, quite frankly, you just can't generate enough power to generate a sound strong enough to break buildings or destroy bodies. You can kill someone with it by overloading their nervous systems with information, but you can't destroy entire buildings. Maybe all the windows within a few city blocks though.
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Fair enough. Though the idea is still interesting.

What do you mean by size? The size of the frequency, or the size of the weapon I described?
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Aren't you talking about Flash bangs? Those are just small grenades with no shrapnel.
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