With reference to this New Scientist article by David Hambling—and also here at Danger Room—IEEE Spectrum weighs in with an emph
atic “no-go” for a theoretically nonlethal weapon called MEDUSA, which would use microwaves to cause human targets to experience sounds. According to the scientists IEEE posed the idea to,
There is no way the ray gun could deliver sound loud enough to be annoying at nonfatal power levels, says Kenneth Foster, a bioengineering professor at the University of Pennsylvania who first published research on the microwave auditory effect in 1974.
“Any kind of exposure you could give to someone that wouldn’t burn them to a crisp would produce a sound too weak to have any effect,” Foster says.
Bill Guy, a former professor at the University of Washington who has also published on the microwave auditory effect, agrees. “There couldn’t possibly be a hazard from the sound, because the heat would get you first,” Guy says.
Guy says that experiments have demonstrated that radiation at 40 microjoules per pulse per square centimeter produces sound at zero decibels, which is just barely in hearing range. To produce sound at 60 decibels, or the sound of normal conversation, requires 40 watts per square centimeter of radiation. “That would kill you pretty fast,” Guy says. Producing an unpleasant sound, at about 120 decibels, would take 40 million W/cm2 of energy. One milliwatt per square centimeter is considered to be the safety threshold.
“There’s a misunderstanding by the public and even some scientists about this auditory effect,” says Guy.
Of course, it can be used as a weapon. Just not a nonlethal one. I guess we know where to go when we need a weapon that cooks brains in half the time of a regular oven!
Filed under: military, nonlethal weapons
October 10, 2007
Dear Member of the Legislature and Friends:
This letter is to ask for your help for the many constituents in our country who are being affected unjustly by electronic weapons torture and covert harassment groups. Serious privacy rights violations and physical injuries have been caused by the activities of these groups and their use of so-called non-lethal weapons on men, women, and even children.
I am asking you to play a role in helping these victims and also stopping the massive movement in the use of Verichip and RFID technologies in tracking Americans.
Long before Verichip was known we were testing these devices on Americans, many without their knowledge or consent. With the new revelations of the cancer risk besides the privacy and human rights problems with the use of Verichip and RF signals, I am asking for your help in stopping these abuses and aiding those already affected.
Sincerely,
Rep. Jim Guest
District Office: 660-535-6664
Capitol Office: 573-751-0246
Respectfully James Walbert 316-650-6976
Hello:
I have been a victim of the Microwave Auditory Effect for approx. 10 years. It has developed into something horrible. The carrier wave is being used both ways to transmit information to those who are operating/causing it.
I am afraid of ramifications because I am writing/reporting this, as it has affected many facets of my life.
Carolyn M.
Denver, CO
Carolyn Moriyama, please look into phantom words and phrases, explained by Dr. Diane Deutsch, UC San Diego.
“The brain is constantly attempting to find meaning in things, even where there is no meaning. This can often lead us to experience illusions. Just as, when we look into a cloudy sky, we may see strange faces and figures, so when presented with ambiguous sounds, we may hear words and phrases that are not really there.”
While I don’t doubt your experiences, I believe that the popular notion of two-way communication is an illusion, caused by MAE. I assume that you’re suffering a constant onslaught of tones, mumblings, garbled speech, and other ambiguous sounds. Dr. Deutsch explains how it works:
“After continuous exposure to these repeating words, listeners begin to ‘hear’ words and phrases that are not really there. These ‘phantom words’ are generated by the brain in an attempt to extract meaning from the chaos of sound that is presented.”
“People often report hearing words that are related to what is on their minds. If they are on a diet, they may hear words that are related to food; if they have had a stressful day they may hear words that are related to stress; and so on. In fact, so strong is the influence of meaning on what is perceived, that people sometimes hear voices speaking in strange or unfamiliar accents, so as to create for themselves words and phrases that are particularly significant to them.”
http://philomel.com/phantom_words/phantom.php
Someone should have told Allan Frey that discovering the Frey Effect did not give his relatives Don, Barbara, Sheree and Steven Frey the right to torture hundreds of innocent victims in the Palm Springs area while they cornered the market on methamphetamine sales. Shame on Barbara Frey for haphazardly giving this technology to her whacked out son and daughter who have irresponsibly turned the City of Palm Springs into their own personal torture chamber.
The money that the Frey Family has made from their livelihood should be taken from them and given to the hundreds of victims that their daughter Sheree has tortured for the sake of protecting her brothers drug dealing business.
I would nominate Mrs. Barbara Frey for the Queen of Mean and Irrisponsibility for knowingly introducing this highly dangerous technology into the public domain without the consent of anyone but her own conscious. This family deserves to be drawn and quartered in the public eye and I intend to be the person to bring attention to their lack of sensitivity and the callous way she showed the world how the rich can simply play with the lives of the poor and needy without regard.
One would think she would have learned from her tryst with the baby diaper incident…she has no heart.