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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. Re:obligatory by spun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For those who don't know, or those who think it's just a reference to an R.E.M. song, read the story behind the song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_the_Frequency,_Kenneth%3F

    Basically, some crazy dude beat the crap out of Dan Rather because he thought the networks were beaming voices into his head, and he thought Dan knew the frequency.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  2. How do we know they're not just fucking with us? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How hard would it be for some random Air Force flunky to classify a document referring to using lasers to put voices in people's heads, knowing that it would get declassified later?

    And he's now off somewhere just laughing his ass off.