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Metamaterials Developed To Bend Sound Waves, Deflect Tsunamis
cold fjord writes in with this story about some new possible applications for metamaterials. "A new way of assembling things, called metamaterials, may in the not too distant future help to protect a building from earthquakes by bending seismic waves around it. Similarly, tsunami waves could be bent around towns, and sound waves bent around a room to make it soundproof. ... Metamaterials are simply materials that exhibit properties not found in nature, such as the way they absorb or reflect light. The key is in how they're made. By assembling the material — from photonic crystals to wire and foam — at a scale smaller than the length of the wave you're seeking to manipulate, the wave can, in theory, be bent to will. ... Ong and others say ... they could be used to redirect other kinds of waves, including mechanical waves such as sound and ocean waves. French researchers earlier this year, for example, diverted seismic waves around specially placed holes in the ground, reflecting the waves backward. Ong points to the possibility of using what has been learned in reconfiguring the geometry of materials to divert tsunamis from strategic buildings.'"
Well, you're a troll. It's nothing like that. Having a manpussy in prison is largely voluntary. Rape does exist, but it's not like it's more likely to happen to you than not. Here's an article about what it's like to be a techie in prison. It's not this way everywhere. Lots of places have no tech access besides a Plexiglas covered TV. Worse, however, is the lack of any good material to read.
The library shelves or book cart is chock full with lot's of brand new religious bullshit and various other statist crap, or bubble gum escapist shite. There's hardly any good books on ethics from a secular viewpoint instead it's all "you're locked up because you're not right with God, imagine you're sucking Jesus' metaphorical dick and you'll be so right with God we'll see you next revolution of the revolving door," in not so many more obfuscated words. Origin of Species? God & Golem Inc.? Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy? Ring World? SICP? Knuth's Art of Computer Programming? Nope. Most books besides religious crap are ratty and worn, pages and covers missing. Hell, there was even romance novels and interview with a vampire, but not a single Dragon Lance or O'Reilly?
I can run a program on a piece of paper with a pencil, I don't need a computer to follow along with Knuth, but damn, the prison and jail libraries have only mind numbing dreck that seems made to rot your mind and give you false sense of security that you'll be able to function and interact properly if you just gargle Jesus jiz. The criminal legal library is kept up, and there are some jobs programs that are OK -- They get their reading material at the behest of the corporate masters who want cheap slave drivable labor for dangerous or dirty jobs; A buddy learned underwater welding and works his ass off for good "honest" money now, helping oil companies rape the planet.
Anyway, yeah, the incarcerated could use some books. I'd have given up my food tray for a week for a good sci-fi book. Sad thing is, out in the free world there's libraries getting rid of books -- can hardly give 'em away because they're too abused, but they rarely find their way to where they could do the most good. Nope, those Christ fuckers who think Jesus is off preparing a place for them in the sky somewhere so the body of the church can get half-gay married into God's magical zombie family have a damn near monopoly on fresh reading material. I've read that damn insane bible in 6 different translations just to laugh at the inconsistencies -- Hell, did you know the whole virgin birth is based on a mistranslation error? Careful pointing out the bullshit though: Private Prisons are essentially Christian-Camp Cages.
Sounds like AC has got one hell of a prison rape fantasy up there -- It's not copy-pasta... They'll surely be disappointed if they ever grow balls and lose brains enough to make their dream come true.