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Re:TV can see through walls by marshray on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @07:35PM (#50448328)
If you actually have any new information about the wavelengths Leon Theremin was using, please share it.

ClikeX originally claimed that the USSR had lasers in 1945 (untrue) and that Leon Theremin invented the detection of sound vibrations or audio reproduction of via light (also untrue).

The confusion here is between the two different eavesdropping systems developed by Theremin: The Buran eavesdropping system (which used likely-near infrared on windowpanes) and "The Thing" (which used VHF-UHF radio on a custom device).

Your repeated insistence on the unrelated point that "light" and "radio" are technically both electromagnetic waves isn't clarifying anything.

Re:TV can see through walls by itishappy on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @08:18PM (#50448661)
> If you actually have any new information about the wavelengths Leon Theremin was using, please share it.

I'm quite confident it was an optical wavelength! ;)

> ClikeX originally claimed that the USSR had lasers in 1945 (untrue) and that Leon Theremin invented the detection of sound vibrations or audio reproduction of via light (also untrue).

> The confusion here is between the two different eavesdropping systems developed by Theremin: The Buran eavesdropping system (which used likely-near infrared on windowpanes) and "The Thing" (which used VHF-UHF radio on a custom device).

Great summary!

> Your repeated insistence on the unrelated point that "light" and "radio" are technically both electromagnetic waves isn't clarifying anything.

I hope it's helped clarify that of the terms used here (light, radio, and electromagnetic waves) only "radio" is clearly distinct as "light" and "electromagnetic waves" are often synonyms.