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The State Department has not provided further details about the medical condition of the affected staffers. But government officials have suggested anonymously that the diplomats may have been assaulted with some sort of sonic weapon.
Experts in acoustics, however, say that's a theory more appropriate to a James Bond movie.
Sound can cause discomfort and even serious harm, and researchers have explored the idea of sonic weaponry for years. But scientists doubt a hidden ultrasound weapon can explain what happened in Cuba.
"I'd say it's fairly implausible," said Jürgen Altmann, a physicist at the Technische Universität Dortmund in Germany and an expert on acoustics.
Once again, the New York Times gets it wrong. James Bond is not the movie genre they're looking for.
mrpg also brings us this less-critical AP report, What Americans Heard in Cuba Attacks: The Sound.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fishybell on Thursday October 19 2017, @04:43PM (1 child)
I just listened to the sound, and to me it sounds just like a power supply that's gone bad.
One of my first jobs I had two computers, one Mac, and one Windows. I had to unplug the Mac when I wasn't working on it because the noise it was making. It was barely audible, and took me several weeks to pin down, but it was literally nauseating.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:04PM
Did anyone try playing it backwards to see if it was simply a backward recording of a Trump speech? That could explain the symptoms.
Don't put a mindless tool of corporations in the white house; vote ChatGPT for 2024!