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Beautiful! :) Two questions though:
1. How do you make the aiming
mechanism fast and precise enough to
handle the speed of the incoming bullet,
closing in at roughly one kilometer per
second?
2. Did you intend the title to be Death Hat
(referring of course to Death Star)? As it
stands now it wouldn't make for very good
marketing, as it literally translates to Hat
of the Dead ;-) |
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<aside>
Some Royal Navy battleships have a last line of defence called 'Goalkeeper' that is basically a set of auto-canons that fire hire powered rounds at incoming missiles. The only problem is that by the time the missile is in range, it is going to hit the boat... Goalkeeper can only try and stop the warhead - even if it works there will be a shower of shrapnel.
</aside> |
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[Placid] Yes, I admit, a tricky technical challenge, but theoretically possible. I meant the title to be "The Hat of Death", just because I liked the sound of it. |
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So - lets say average bullet speed is 1000ft per second (bit on the slow side). The average mafioso-type shoots from 10ft away. Assuming that the hat has image recognition to identify when a handgun is pointing at you (so we can assume that the bullet is identified at t=0s). |
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Then the hat has 1/100 of a second before the bullet hits - as per Goalkeeper this is probably reduced to something like 6/1000 (the bullet being hit 4ft from you). |
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l'chapeau de la mort, then! French death is
a she. |
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No different to other cultures then!
<ducks for cover> |
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Now, a "chapeau de la petit mort" would be *really* interesting. |
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That would fire... never mind. |
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Or it could give a great head massage. And I mean *really* great...
[linky] |
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As it spun to aim at the bullet wouldn't the torque snap your neck? |
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I think the American ship version of this is called "Phalanx." (See link). It won't work in a hat without a lot more baking. |
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One word for you: counter rotation. |
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I saw a tripod-mounted sentry-gun
based
on similar principles a few years back.
Rather than radar, it listened for a bullet
and shot in the direction that the bullet
came from, hoping to catch snipers. It
had
no pretentions about shooting a bullet
out
of the air, though, simply of removing
the
threat that had made the shot. Think
about
it, that's pretty good for a mafia setting.
Your hat may not be able to save your
life,
bit it would be able to avenge your
death. |
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If the "Phalanx" [baconbrain] links to above were down-sized into something wearable upon one's head, it would look a great deal like the headgear worn by Elbonians in the "Dilbert" comic strip. Which is something to contemplate. |
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Read somewhere about a defence system being developed for US APC's. It was used for missile and high-velocity shell defence. |
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With a little packaging and promotion, the
Pentagon would give you a couple of
billion for development. |
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The "sombrero de la muerte" (hola) does
not need to hit the incoming bullet. Just
let it detect the offending gunshot, and
then fire a large projectile vertically
upwards from the wearer's head. The
recoil will throw the wearer to the floor
and, assuming that the would-be assassin
has aimed for the head or upper torso, the
shot will miss. There are some spinal
compression issues to consider. |
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Then there's the "cappello della morte" which the Italians perfected in WWII. In the event of gunfire it surrenders so you end up grovelling on the ground, out of the way of any oncoming projectile. |
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Can I just say I really like the Babelfish transalation of "The hat of death" into Dutch: "De hoed van dood". |
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That would be "le chapeau de la mort". You only abbreviate the "le" when the following word starts with a vowel. |
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[jurist], you love those Elbonians don't you! |
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//The recoil will throw the wearer to the floor and, assuming that the would-be assassin has aimed for the head or upper torso, the shot will miss. // |
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Unless the shot is aimed at the kneecap, or groinal area - these are gangsters we're talking about here! |
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Perhaps you should have one of these mounted groinally? - "pantalon de la mort"? |
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As you approach your beloved, she notices motion in your groinal area. "Ooo!" she coos. "Are you really happy to see me, or is that a 'pantalon de la mort'?" |
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Far simpler, why not 'the hat of Mutually Assured Destruction'. At the first incoming bullet, the warhead detonates and takes with it both gangster and wearer (known as the MAD hatter). |
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Wasn't that a key plot point in "Snowcrash" and a minor one in "Consider Plebus" |
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//I meant the title to be "The Hat of
Death"// - I designed a hat a few years
ago, for my usual type of fun, called the
Hat of Doom - it's a "ten gallon" type hat
encrusted with various targets like apples,
burning cigarettes, and a toy car that runs
around the rim with a target flag on it. |
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[+] for hippo's idea, which could be
combined with my own, to frustrate the
shooter |
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[+] As we say in Glasgow, you're a' heidbangers. |
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