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Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by azemetre on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:26AM (#16671314)
Have you ever tried a schizophrenia simulator while doing simple tasks? It's extremely taxing, hard, demotivating, and emotional draining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvU-Ajwbok

Here's a video of Anderson Cooper listening to one while doing basic tasks and he struggles immensely. Keep in mind that he is cognizant of what is happening to him and still fails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9UJVtgPZY

These weapons will become mass torture devices that further remove humanity from inhumane acts of war.

Re:US Military Scientists Generate Voices Remotely via Laser by newman8r on Sunday March 25, 2018 @06:04AM (#16671525)
also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wandering_Soul_(Viet...

But I think the bigger application might be in using this tech to trick the enemy into giving up their position to investigate some weird sound, flush them out of buildings, etc.