Talk:Cone of Silence

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[edit] Cone of Silence Ordinances

http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/Procurement/docs/ConeofSilence.pdf

http://www.broward.org/whistleblower/silence_complaint_procedure.pdf

http://www.miamidade.gov/govaction/matter.asp?matter=982301&file=false&yearFolder=Y1998

http://www.dadeschools.net/board/rules/Chapt8/8C-1.212.pdf

http://www.sbac.edu/~purchase/bidop.htm

Please look into the addition of information of legal ordinances, or actually creating a new page for governemt usage of "the Cone of Silence".

[edit] D&D

Wasn't Cone of Silence originally a Dungeons and Dragons spell of which all these other references are based from? Aarku 21:57, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean -- Get Smart and Dune were mid-1960's, while Dungeons and Dragons was mid-1970's... Churchh 05:31, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
I stand corrected, thanks. --Aarku 00:51, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Military Denial of Service

I heard that this was a non-kinetic method of denying communication, taking down a network or taking out electricity for a local?

[edit] A story by Arthur C. Clarke

There is a short (and quite funny) story by Arthur C. Clarke, "Silence Please", about a silence device, and seems to me it fits within the scope of this article. What do you think about this?

Cheeri-o N. Macchiavelli 19:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC) N. Machiavelli

One of the White Hart tales, right? It anticipated the idea of Noise-cancelling headphones, but claimed to apply noise-cancellation over a wide area, which I think is quite impossible. And it wasn't really a "cone"... Churchh 04:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
What I have is another compilation of different authors traslated to spanish, but you're probably right. And if it really is a "cone" or not...haven't really checked. But you get the idea.

Cheeri-o N. Macchiavelli 19:58, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] radar technology?

The casual mention that the term originates from radar technology needs sourcing, since it contradicts an assertion earlier that the term is from Science Fiction Theater. Theinfo 13:58, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

It's from a sonic flight navigation system as mentioned earlier in the article. As per the British film Cone of Silence from 1960 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054762/) Jooler 12:38, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Canadian Embassy

Should there be something on this page about the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, which has an actual cone of silence (sort of; it's an ellipse which naturally modulates the sound)? It's frequently referred to as such although it has no connection to the "Get Smart" Cone of Silence.

[edit] Prop location?

Anybody know what happened to the Cone of Silence prop(s)? Curious. Could make a good museum piece. 71.222.109.94 19:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Angry Dome

In the episode of futurama "Kif gets knocked up a knotch" The professor gets mad at Amy and says "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the angry dome." which you can later see in the next scene. In the audio commentary for this episode, Matt Groening says that he wanted to be able to hear the professor through the dome saying "I though it would be like the Cone of Silence from Get Smart" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.158.54.25 (talk) 21:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)