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Serious Plans Under Way to Stop Locust Plagues via Directional Sound Waves

An online think tank member and conceptbattlespace AI future of net-centric warfare.
designer has been studying the aerodynamicsIf we built a vertical virtual 4D sound wall
of insect flight; specifically bees andthen as the swarm bunches up, the power level
locusts and now he believes has figured outmust be increased. What the swarm would do,
the puzzle which has literally plaguedsince we are dealing with an organic evolved
mankind since ancient times. How to stopcreature, which has never dealt with such a
locust swarms from devastating humansound wall is probably continue rather than
civilizations.  How  so  you  ask?evade  it.
Mr. Warren Powers has drawn out plans to testAlthough they might turn around or mutate the
a concept of using directional sound waves toswarm's shape or direction due to the
control and stop locust storms. In hisbunching up of traffic jam, which would be
announcement of the concept Mr. Warrenthe same if they encountered an obstacle, a
states; "It seems to me a reasonable place totree, mountain, rock or building and that we
begin would be to create a curtain or "plane"know they can do and have evolved to deal
of sound or a "sound wall" or "sound barrier"with, obstacle avoidance. Now then, we need a
through which the locusts would fly and thatsecondary unit to close off the sides and
wall of sound could be a few feet thick and abacks of the swarm or several such units. And
couple hundred yards long, a few dozen yardsif all hell breaks lose [as if a locust
tall. That space would look like a rectangleplague is not already nearly there] then
in the air placed in the path of an oncomingthose operating such machinery need to be
swarm."protected  too.
Yes in concept this could work. But do locustNo one knows for sure if Warren Powers
swarms have any rhyme or reason or knownstrategy will work, but judging by the laws
shape to them? Hard to say, but I think theyof physics it appears it is possible and that
do actually, although I would have to studyis good enough a reason to go for it, as
this. I am pretty into swarm theory from aneveryone knows how devastating Locust Plagues
offense and defense standpoint of nature andcan be. Imagine this in 2006.



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