Hearing Voices? Could Be the Lasers

An anonymous reader sends us to Wired for a piece about some declassified Pentagon research from 1998 that has been revealed in a freedom-of-information filing. Apparently the Pentagon has investigated lasers that put voices in your head, among other non-lethal technologies such as microwave heating. The report suggests the techniques could be useful for controlling crowds or in negotiations. There is no context for the research or any indication whether it has continued, although the microwave heating bit sounds rather like the Active Denial System we have discussed recently.

Comments

Real Genius

[cthulu_mt]

Kent: Is that you God?

Re:Real Genius

[Samgilljoy]

Just wait until they sell the technology to the private sector. Instead of poor slobs standing on street corners waving signs, we'll have troops of unskilled laborers running around with laser devices trying to shoot everyone in the head.

Laser Advertising: straight out your marketers' asses into your customers' heads.

Tin foil hats vs. orbital mind control lasers.

[Spectre]

See, the tinfoil hats REALLY DO WORK against the orbital mind control lasers ...

Re:Tin foil hats vs. orbital mind control lasers.

[ZenDragon]

A former Arizona governor used to wear tin foil hats and cover his windows with tin foil at the governors office (where I worked for a while). Everybody thought he was just crazy but apparently he knew something that we did not!

Re:Tin foil hats vs. orbital mind control lasers.

[Rei]

I knew it! Conspiracy theories: 1. Regular theories: A billion

Finally! Help for Paranoid Schizophrenics!

[F�an�ro]

We should use this awesome technologie to help guide ill people.

Especially Paranoid Schizophrenics.

We can send them reassuring messages, like "you are not alone. we are there to get you (help)"

or warn them of imminent dangers, like which bus drivers hate them.

Voices

[jumpinp]

I knew I wasn't crazy.

pkd

[KrazeeEyezKilla]

PHILIP K DICK WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG now we just have to wait for the pentagon to admit that we are living in the roman empire and that it's 79 AD

An obvious practical application

[paulpach]

There is an obvious application for this technology.

Re:If torture wasn't unreliable enough

[palegray.net]

Why stop at beaming voices into their heads? We can achieve must more cooperation through the transmission of these fine symphonic works:

• Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again (can't stop playing these catchy tunes)
• Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison (if you don't cooperate)
• Blondie - I Touch Myself (with a loaded shotgun)
• Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way (we just want answers)

Re:If torture wasn't unreliable enough

[somersault]

Either that or some jerk in the crowd could laser in "YOU SUCK!" just as the batter is about to swing .. and I thought laser pens at the cinema were annoying :s

Re:Wild Goose Chase

[Architect_sasyr]

Is this the appropriate time for a certain bash quote:

<ColdRage687> i used to think the brain was the most fascinating part of the body
<ColdRage687> but then i realized
<ColdRage687> pssssh
<ColdRage687> look whats telling me that