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Sonic Torpedo Defense

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the can-you-hear-me-now dept.

dylanduck writes "How do you defend a ship against torpedoes? According to the US Navy, you line the hull with loudspeakers and blast the incoming missile with such a devastating blast of sounds that it explodes." When asked about the possible ecological effects on marine life the military had no comment.

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  1. Hate 2 Bitch but... by Elitist_Phoenix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I submitted this story:
    2005-10-07 14:40:59 Shock tactics to destroy torpedoes (Index,United States) (rejected)
    and it was knocked back! - Pointed to the exact same article!
    Same thing happened with the Opera codes:
    2005-08-30 09:05:03 Opera Turns 10 and get a registration code FREE (Index,Software) (rejected)

    But I guess these thing happen eh?

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    "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
  2. Re:Torpedo explodes due to sound? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You got your sig wrong.
      Girls = Time x Money. If Time = Money then Girls = money^2. Money = "root of all evil" = devil. Therefor Girls = devil^2
      It should be money = root of all evil, and since girls = money^2, it's girls = (root of evil)^2 = evil.

  3. Same thing. by Wilson_6500 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    97 / 9 = 10.777...
    98 / 9 = 10.888...
    Implies 99 / 9 = 10.999...

    99 / 9 = 11 / 1 = 11

    Therefore 10.999... = 11, so whatever approaches 11 approaches 10.999...

    (Now, spot the logical flaw... if there is one.)

    1. Re:Same thing. by NizzyWizzy4Shizzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      97 / 9 = 10.777... 98 / 9 = 10.888... Implies 99 / 9 = 10.999... That is illogical. your sample data doesn't justify your conclusion

    2. Re:Same thing. by brian0918 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      1/3 = 0.333... 2/3 = 1/3 + 1/3 = 0.666... 1 = 3/3 = 2/3 + 1/3 = 0.999...

    3. Re:Same thing. by CastrTroy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The problem is, 1/3 doesn't equal 0.33333. 1/3 = 1/3. You'd have to go on writing 3's after that decimal point for infinity, which isn't possible, because, infinity goes on forever. You'd never be able to write 1/3 in decimal notation. The only way to properly donote the value is 1/3, or 2/6, or some other fraction. You can't use decimals to denote the exact value.

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      Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
  4. holy crap... by traveyes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    have you seen so many +5's in recent memory?

    .