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Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by bitumen on Saturday March 24, 2018 @07:48PM (#16669736)
I’m still pretty sure that they’re mostly paranoid schizophrenics, but this is more or less what “targeted individuals” claim is being done to them. Technology makes it harder and harder to reach delusional people, when their delusions become technically possible. How bizarre!
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by 3131s on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:17AM (#16671147)
I had the same though when I first read about the microwave auditory effect:

"In his experiments, the subjects were discovered to be able to hear appropriately pulsed microwave radiation, from a distance of a few inches to hundreds of feet from the transmitter. [...] According to Frey, the induced sounds were described as 'a buzz, clicking, hiss, or knocking, depending on several transmitter parameters, i.e., pulse width and pulse-repetition rate'. By changing transmitter parameters, Frey was able to induce the 'perception of severe buffeting of the head, without such apparent vestibular symptoms as dizziness or nausea'."

"In 1975, an article by neuropsychologist Don Justesen discussing radiation impacts on human perceptions referred to an experiment by Joseph Sharp and Mark Grove at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research during which Sharp and Grove reportedly were able to recognize 9 out of 10 words transmitted by 'voice modulated microwaves'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect

Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by FeepingCreature on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:25PM (#16670536)
If you're mentally healthy, and the government is genuinely beaming voices in your ears, what happens if you take antipsychotics?
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by zeofig on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:55AM (#16671979)
That's when you see through the grand illusion and achieve total masterful ascendency. But not before committing a number of felonies.
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by slim on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:30AM (#16672319)
You commit suicide
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by Voyage_wanderer on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:16PM (#16670051)
The problem is that once you walked over the line into psychosis, it is extremely difficult to come back to “normal reality”. Human’s psycho is very fragile thing. The weaponry basically creates an army of people who lost the boundaries of normalcy. It is not good....
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by Retric on Sunday March 25, 2018 @12:58AM (#16670841)
It's actually surprisingly easy to slip back and forth between psychosis and not. Which is the problem as you can't subjectivity tell one from the other.
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by bitumen on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:28PM (#16670106)
Good point, and that’s definitely why early intervention and prevention is the preferred modality for treatment of psychosis. This is weaponizing the opposite of that, for “crowd control” I guess.
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by OrganicMSG on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:35PM (#16670126)
On the other hand, the already disturbed could be far more resilient to this actually being used as they already knew that this was going on and were hearing voices anyway.
Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by EGreg on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:37PM (#16670143)
I remember around 2004 walking around NYC subway you'd see the usual guy talking to himself -- but wait, no -- he was on a cellphone!

That was a funny transition.

Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by tejtm on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:34AM (#16671189)
... guy talking to hiscelf --

I still wonder every time

Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by mistermann on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:30PM (#16670324)
There's a fair amount of talk on this sort of thing on /r/conspiracy, around stories like the latest school shooter, on various antidepressants, being well known to authorities, numerous calls to law enforcement but no one will do anything. I have no idea if any of it is true, but this sort of thing being in the news doesn't cool speculation either.