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Robert Stadler attends and sanctions a demonstration of the government's previously top secret Project X. The project, housed in rural Iowa, is a new weapon that employs sound waves and is capable of mass destruction. Floyd Ferris convinces Stadler that the weapon is a necessary instrument of control at a time when hysteria and rebelliousness grip the American people.

http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnot es/atlas_shrugged/70.html

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Disaster Area, a plutonium rock band from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones, are generally held to be not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact the loudest noise of any kind at all. Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance is usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles from the stage, while the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stays in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

http://www.dwave.net/~tony/Mars/hgttg2.htm

I have not RTFAed. I totally agree with the Dr. Feynman quote, completely. So much so that I just got to wondering... imagine if you could fool nature. :-) Man, that'd be a trip:

Hey, nature, look at the monkey! look at the monkey! what's that? No! No, I'm not defying gravity, keep looking at the damn monkey! What? No--no there's no cold fusion going on over there. Hey, check this out, nature: a whole buuunch of monkeys annd some circus midgets! etc

Someone with a better funny bone could probably exp{ou,a}nd upon this, and turn it into a great legendary Inernet meme. Or maybe I need some sleep.

Yes that seems more likely. (See also "recreational impossibilities" and "SEP fields".)

The WVRA is holding our Field Day at Man-Made Lake. The public is welcome to stop by.

Talk-in will be on the 164.64 (pl 114.8) Repeater.