Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
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But I'm kinda going to wait to believe it until someone tries to reproduce it. Should be simple enough, just get some old old laptops, and play a sine wave sweep until they do something. Get on it, science clickbait youtubers!
> According to the two engineers, the failure of the bridge was related to a wind-driven amplification of the torsional oscillation that, unlike a resonance, increases monotonically with increasing wind speed.
[1] https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.299...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/498192-the-paraphrase-of-g-...
Basically the same principle that allows an Opera singer to crack a wine glass by singing at a specific pitch very loudly.
that's how you can use sound to shatter glass. or why the tacoma narrows bridge collapsed.
in this case the sound included a frequency that affected the laptops harddisks which are obviously sensitive to shaking