Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region 619
MacDork writes "Wired News is running an article about high powered acoustic technology to be deployed in the hurricane Katrina disaster recovery. Apparently, the technology will allow authorities to communicate with others up to a mile away along with providing a non-lethal means of crowd control. No word on additional busses and shelters..."
obligatory (Score:4, Funny)
Unstoppable. (Score:4, Funny)
Shoot lasers at the hurricane and we can SCARE IT AWAY.. either that or there will be a fierce battle of lasers vs. wind, and we all know lasers are the strongest thing ever.
Fuck. The answer has been here the whole time and we just didn't see it.
Re:Crowd Control Is Easy (Score:2, Funny)
People aren't going to learn to change themselves until they are thoroughly disgusted with what they currently are. This is step one.
Re:What a horrible mess... (Score:2, Funny)
I for one can't wait for the movie... (Score:5, Funny)
Or maybe this was just a huge disaster affecting an area the size of the UK, in a country without a welfare state, where the inequalities in society are trumpeted in the media, and commercial interests (i.e. a waterway near New Orleans that should have been filled in years ago) are always put above the common good (DCMA, Patent Law, etc.)
WAKE UP AMERICA AND SAVE YOUR COUNTRY; MAKE TONY BLAIR YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT