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Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-told-you-the-voices-were-real dept.

Sportsqs writes "The Sierra Nevada Corporation claimed this week that it is ready to begin production on the MEDUSA, a damned scary ray gun that uses the 'microwave audio effect' to implant sounds and perhaps even specific messages inside people's heads."

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  1. Re:Ha! See! I told you! by _KiTA_ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I saw this last week in New Scientist. You're jumping to some very flase conclusions. It has nothing to do with subliminal messages. From the linked article:

    The device - dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) - exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be transmitted to produce recognisable sounds.
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    MEDUSA involves a microwave auditory effect "loud" enough to cause discomfort or even incapacitation. Sadovnik says that normal audio safety limits do not apply since the sound does not enter through the eardrums.

    "The repel effect is a combination of loudness and the irritation factor," he says. "You can't block it out."

    Am I the only one who finds it very, very scary that the "It's not torture if WE do it" Bush Administration(*) is working on technology that could be used to torture people and leave absolutely no physical evidence behind, ever?

    This and the pain gun have me very, very scared for the future of our liberties.

    *: To say nothing about the "It's not illegal if WE say it's not" and "You don't have the right to a free trial if WE don't say you do" and "We don't have to give up evidence unless WE want to" crap the retard king has pulled since his daddy's friends put him in power.

  2. Re:Ha! See! I told you! by slew · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I call BS on your analysis of the uses of this technology.

    Surprisingly a wonderfully innovative technology to accomplish all of your benefits already exists. They're called headphones. My guess is that they don't use them because of some other reason. I wonder what that is...

    Maybe it's that a large number of the people that listen to their music at parties, concerts, and through car audio systems actually *want* others to hear their music. When played loudly, it's just basically, a childish/immature behavior to impose/force their taste in music upon others (neighbors, etc)...

    That headphone technology won't work for you... Why not?