Hearing Voices? Could Be the Lasers 225
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.
Someone's been reading Philip K. Dick (Score:1, Interesting)
microwave negotiations (Score:5, Interesting)
"What's that, you say? Getting a little hot in here? We'll get you a cool glass of water... but first, let's finish negotiating the terms of your unconditional surrender."
Re:obligatory (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Old News + Kucinich Called it (Score:4, Interesting)
you know, economically speaking it is inevitable these things will be researched, like chemical weapons (some of which turn you gay in the foxhole), pentagon contingency plans for aliens showing up and cheating with electronic voting. too much upside to ignore the possibility, or too ominous to not aggressively understand.
it does sound like an interesting line of research, no?
Re:If torture wasn't unreliable enough (Score:4, Interesting)
FWIW I think torture is wrong, and should not be used just based on that fact. But I wonder if the parent statement has some actual basis in fact, or if it basically amounts to another wikiality.
How do we know they're not just fucking with us? (Score:5, Interesting)
And he's now off somewhere just laughing his ass off.