This is about convincing the public to accept these tools as ways to control crowds. Shooting a bunch of protestors isn't acceptable, but finding a 'non-lethal' means to control a crowd is a lot more palatable.
Sounds almost like one is trying to make a paper airplane with such finesse to it's form that it can fly straight and true when launched from a cannon.
My understanding of nuetron bombs is that they are basically fission devices with the outer reflector removed so that instead of nuetrons being reflected back into the fissile material for a greater yield, they are released. I'd imagine you'd have to beef up the initiator and fissile material amount in an implosion design to compensate. So a nuetron bomb will still result in some sort of radioactive fall out.
Neutron bombs were basically designed for one thing only: Against large fields of heavy armor in a Cold War style invasion. Tanks are resilant to the concussion and heat effects of a nuclear bomb, but nuetrons can penetrate heavy armor easily.
Plutonium gives off alpha radiation. It doesn't penetrate skin but if you inhale or ingest a very tiny amount it will kill you. In the lungs it will cause massive fibrosis. In the blood stream it follows the same pathway as calcium and will destroy bone marrow.
I really don't see the benefit. Assuming one can do more sound processing on a video card then your typical CPU or sound card, I still see PCI bus bandwidth being the weak link.
If there's anything remarkable about this software it will be due to the functionality of the software, not the fact that it uses your video card.
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This is about convincing the public to accept these
tools as ways to control crowds. Shooting
a bunch of protestors isn't acceptable, but finding
a 'non-lethal' means to control a crowd is a
lot more palatable.
Sounds almost like one is trying to make a paper airplane with such finesse to it's form that it can fly straight and true when launched from a cannon.
Try K-meleon Based on mozilla but a more light weight interface.
They are helium nuclei. They are large and can't penetrate a piece of paper, but inside the body they can do very real damage.
My understanding of nuetron bombs is that they are basically fission devices with the outer reflector removed so that instead of nuetrons being reflected back into the fissile material for a greater yield, they are released. I'd imagine you'd have to beef up the initiator and fissile material amount in an implosion design to compensate. So a nuetron bomb will still result in some sort of radioactive fall out.
Neutron bombs were basically designed for one thing only: Against large fields of heavy armor in a Cold War style invasion. Tanks are resilant to the concussion and heat effects of a nuclear bomb, but nuetrons can penetrate heavy armor easily.
Plutonium gives off alpha radiation. It doesn't penetrate skin but if you inhale or ingest a very tiny amount it will kill you. In the lungs it will cause massive fibrosis. In the blood stream it follows the same pathway as calcium and will destroy bone marrow.
I really don't see the benefit. Assuming one can do more sound processing on a video card then your typical CPU or sound card, I still see PCI bus bandwidth being the weak link.
If there's anything remarkable about this software it will be due to the functionality of the software, not the fact that it uses your video card.