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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. That's Ironic by ComputerGeek01 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that they should name it Medusa, a villain who was defeated by reflecting it's magic back at it...

  2. Re:Ha! See! I told you! by JustKidding · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "all standard forms of defence against auditory input" probably means anything in or covering your ears. The tinfoil hat only blocks electromagnetic waves, which is what they are supposedly using.

    The tinfoil hat might actually be one of the few ways you can block this without any special materials or equipment.

    If they see someone with a tinfoil hat, they'll probably just yell at him.

  3. I think the (tinfoil hat) joke is on us this time. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are all kinds of quips about tinfoil hats and paranoia to be made on this one. Trouble is, think about what that means. We are living a tinfoil hatter's paranoid fantasy, it just happens to all be true.

    Massive wiretapping? Check.
    Ubiquitous surveillance? Check.
    Substantial expansion of state power? Check.
    Secret prisons and disappearances? Check.
    Directed energy weapons (both pain and sound)? Check.
    Classified laws? Check.
    Mercenaries who answer to no law?? Check.

    Seriously. They still have some really wacky ones about reptoids and masons and things; but much of conspiracy lore is so common that it doesn't even make the front pages anymore. The joke is on us.