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Im totally making me a sonic screwdriver.

readthenotes1 3y ago
It's got me thinking of sonic blood clots in the pulmonary arteries but you do you and I'll worry about our ever increasing abilities to kill ourselves!
- omeid2 3y ago
  You're being down-voted but both KGB and CIA have used similar tools already. Essentially, "remote poisoning guns". See page 6. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78T03194A000400010014-6.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78T03194A0004000...
  - fbdab103 3y ago
    Given the relative infrequency with which high level leaders die in office, it does feel like these assassination tools are more James Bond than real world. Seems more straight-forward to arrange a car accident.
    - BobaFloutist 3y ago
      Seems more straight-forward to arrange a car accident. Or just shoot someone.
    - 082349872349872 3y ago
      <tinfoil> like Seymour Cray? </tinfoil>
    - imchillyb 3y ago
      The Mossad used small -targeted- explosives and motorcycles. They rode by a vehicle, attached the explosive, rode off and detonated. They’ve targeted and dispatched several nuclear scientists from Iran with this trick. Still a bit like a Bond plot.
      - fbdab103 3y ago
        Now that seems needlessly elaborate. I am willing to imagine some amount of implausible hi-jinks occur when you are trying to make a death look like an accident. A car chase plus explosion does nothing to conceal the plot. Why not gun them down when they entered the car?
  - jxramos 3y ago
    very interesting; I'm a bit stymied by this statement: "The effect of the poisonous vapors is such that the arteries which feed blood to the brain become paralyzed almost immediately." What in the world does it mean to have arteries become paralyzed? I thought paralysis was a skeletal muscle phenomenon. Arteries have a bit of smooth muscle for vasodilation and vasoconstriction. But what does paralysis mean here? I would think dilation, which would be the inactive state since constriction would require active energy exertion to effect.
- Jeff_Brown 3y ago
  If we can build stuff with sound, it seems like taking blood clots apart with sound should be even easier. I wonder how long before people who take warfarin can stop taking it and instead subject themselves to a continuous scan that triggers clot destroying targeted sounds whenever it finds a clot. I suppose the continuous scan would be bad for you.

It's got me thinking of sonic blood clots in the pulmonary arteries but you do you and I'll worry about our ever increasing abilities to kill ourselves!

omeid2 3y ago
You're being down-voted but both KGB and CIA have used similar tools already. Essentially, "remote poisoning guns". See page 6. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78T03194A000400010014-6.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP78T03194A0004000...
- fbdab103 3y ago
  Given the relative infrequency with which high level leaders die in office, it does feel like these assassination tools are more James Bond than real world. Seems more straight-forward to arrange a car accident.
  - BobaFloutist 3y ago
    Seems more straight-forward to arrange a car accident. Or just shoot someone.
  - 082349872349872 3y ago
    <tinfoil> like Seymour Cray? </tinfoil>
  - imchillyb 3y ago
    The Mossad used small -targeted- explosives and motorcycles. They rode by a vehicle, attached the explosive, rode off and detonated. They’ve targeted and dispatched several nuclear scientists from Iran with this trick. Still a bit like a Bond plot.
    - fbdab103 3y ago
      Now that seems needlessly elaborate. I am willing to imagine some amount of implausible hi-jinks occur when you are trying to make a death look like an accident. A car chase plus explosion does nothing to conceal the plot. Why not gun them down when they entered the car?
- jxramos 3y ago
  very interesting; I'm a bit stymied by this statement: "The effect of the poisonous vapors is such that the arteries which feed blood to the brain become paralyzed almost immediately." What in the world does it mean to have arteries become paralyzed? I thought paralysis was a skeletal muscle phenomenon. Arteries have a bit of smooth muscle for vasodilation and vasoconstriction. But what does paralysis mean here? I would think dilation, which would be the inactive state since constriction would require active energy exertion to effect.
Jeff_Brown 3y ago
If we can build stuff with sound, it seems like taking blood clots apart with sound should be even easier. I wonder how long before people who take warfarin can stop taking it and instead subject themselves to a continuous scan that triggers clot destroying targeted sounds whenever it finds a clot. I suppose the continuous scan would be bad for you.