Is it possible for someone to actually break glass with thier voice?

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KoolAidKid

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Originally posted by: HumblePie

I'm not withholding it because I am being snotty or want to. it's cause if I posted that info it can send me to JAIL. No if's, and's, or but's about it. Straight to jail.

Human skulls vary in size enough that the resonant frequency would likely vary considerably across people. Also, the surrounding skin as well as the brain itself would have a damping effect. See here.
 

Rumpltzer

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Originally posted by: HumblePie
I'm not withholding it because I am being snotty or want to. it's cause if I posted that info it can send me to JAIL. No if's, and's, or but's about it. Straight to jail.
You can kill a person by shooting them in the head.

Is this bit of information going to send me to jail?
 

Wow! I've learned a whole lot in this thread, as well as in the Physics thread! I love it.

I wish I had seen the Mythbuster episode. :(

Originally posted by: HumblePie
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Originally posted by: HumblePie
BTW, if you know the resonating frequency at which a human skull pops.. you could do some really mean things to people with sound alone. And NO, I'm not going to give out that info.

LOL. I like how you are "witholding" this valuable information from us and the first sentence in your post is about how you can pop open a chicken skull with the right frequency. It doesn't take much to figure out what you can do with human skull.

I'm not withholding it because I am being snotty or want to. it's cause if I posted that info it can send me to JAIL. No if's, and's, or but's about it. Straight to jail.
Excuse my ignorant question, but if that's the case, does that mean that thise method is used to get rid of people, especially in war?

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
If I sang, yes.
Don't bother singing ... for I'm afraid your voice alone would kill me....
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: DearQT
Wow! I've learned a whole lot in this thread, as well as in the Physics thread! I love it.

I wish I had seen the Mythbuster episode. :(

Originally posted by: HumblePie
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Originally posted by: HumblePie
BTW, if you know the resonating frequency at which a human skull pops.. you could do some really mean things to people with sound alone. And NO, I'm not going to give out that info.

LOL. I like how you are "witholding" this valuable information from us and the first sentence in your post is about how you can pop open a chicken skull with the right frequency. It doesn't take much to figure out what you can do with human skull.

I'm not withholding it because I am being snotty or want to. it's cause if I posted that info it can send me to JAIL. No if's, and's, or but's about it. Straight to jail.
Excuse my ignorant question, but if that's the case, does that mean that thise method is used to get rid of people, especially in war?

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
If I sang, yes.
Don't bother singing ... for I'm afraid your voice alone would kill me....

yea why woudl it be illegal to tell people this?

and im sure google could find it for you if you looked hard enough
 

funboy6942

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Originally posted by: archiloco
someone did it just voice on mythbusters...anybody can do it with amplification, but it requires skill to do it..so the myth was confirmed.

 

BillGates

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Originally posted by: HumblePie
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Originally posted by: HumblePie
BTW, if you know the resonating frequency at which a human skull pops.. you could do some really mean things to people with sound alone. And NO, I'm not going to give out that info.

LOL. I like how you are "witholding" this valuable information from us and the first sentence in your post is about how you can pop open a chicken skull with the right frequency. It doesn't take much to figure out what you can do with human skull.


I'm not withholding it because I am being snotty or want to. it's cause if I posted that info it can send me to JAIL. No if's, and's, or but's about it. Straight to jail.

HA!
 

CQuinn

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Originally posted by: Wapp
Didn't Nikola Tesla say he knew the resonating frequency of the earth and he could destroy it on a whim?

IIRC, it was more like he said that if he could figure out the resonating frequency of the earth, and if he could create
a large enough shockwave at the same freqency it could shatter the earth.

The problem is that the earth has a variable resonance. And the layers of differing materials could also have
a dampening effect.