SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @06:24PM (1 child)
Causing stress is not the same as causing brain and other damage (as claimed in some reports). And if you accidentally cause brain damage, why would you keep doing it?
Whatever it is there is little gain for Cuba to do such attacks and more to lose.
It's much better to secretly spy on the diplomats. Wikileaks has shown that a number of diplomats have juicy secrets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:08PM
"Causing stress is not the same as causing brain and other damage"
Actually stress causes high blood pressure, which can cause a myriad of problems including strokes. So yes it can. Though with things like this you have to accommodate the signal to noise ratio. If you get a kernel of truth your doing pretty good.