sound weapons and butterfli

[toc@digitalk.com (Tim O'Connor)]

REGARDING                sound weapons and butterflies
people:

For the ultimate in sound weapons check out the "Time of the Hawklords"
books by Michael Butterworth (if you can still them find them in some dusty
old bookstore basement). In order to defend the Children of the Sun against
the Corporation, the band Hawkwind (where are they now?) must hold a
continuous rock concert. That's the defensive weapon. Offensive weapons in
this End of the World tale are guns containing mini-speakers. The good guys
have guns which blast Hawkwind music at the bad guys, whose guns blast
things like Frank Sinatra. The effect of these weapons is to weaken the foe
and make them susceptible to the lifestyle of the bearer. Fans of strange
rock oriented science fiction should definately check these books out.

The thing about butterflies and hurricanes comes from the early days of
chaos theory. As I understand it the prevailing wisdom was that weather
systems were not sensitive to small effects, only large ones and that
accurate predictions (and modelling) need not take them into account. "A
butterfly flapping it's wings in Tokyo won't cause a hurricane in New York".
Chaos theory turned that all around. It's known as "extreme sensitivity to
initial conditions". I sincerely doubt that any hurricane has been traced to
any particular butterfly...

obKate? Me? I don't know nothin'...

old man river,
to'c

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