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Hearing Voices? Could Be the Lasers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the or-maybe-the-sharks dept.

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.

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  1. Real Genius by cthulu_mt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kent: Is that you God?

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    1. Re:Real Genius by Samgilljoy · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  2. Tin foil hats vs. orbital mind control lasers. by Spectre · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Tin foil hats vs. orbital mind control lasers. by ZenDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!

  3. Finally! Help for Paranoid Schizophrenics! by F�an�ro · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. pkd by KrazeeEyezKilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  5. Re:If torture wasn't unreliable enough by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Funny
    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)
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