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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkKestral" data-source="post: 3770210" data-attributes="member: 40100">Actually, I think that there has been some cases of distinct 'sonic' damage. For one thing, nuclear weapons are a great example: the main cause of the destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the actual fireballs from the nukes. It was actually the sonic blastwave that resulted from the fireball that pressurized and depressurized the air so rapidly it caused things to come apart. Likewise, some modern speaker systems can kill in a sufficiently small space. It's due to the pressure waves forcing themselves into your orifices, and producing an effect that is apparently not unlike being crushed to death. It will also destroy vehicles. There are cars built for competitions in which the goal is to have the loudest possible car, that have sound systems capable of so much pressure that they actually need modifications to the body to defeat the vibrations, else they will cause the glass and body of the vehicle to shatter or permanently suffer damage, and which are not safe to be in while their speakers are up to their full intensity.So I think sound can kill, given enough strength and the appropriate frequency. It's difficult, and generally requires a lot of effort, but it can happen. Also, the Russians are testing a non-nuclear bomb that uses concussion to produce nuclear bomb-like effects. So I think a bomb CAN be sonic damage.</blockquote>