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Interesting. Are these people permanently damaged or hurt?

• bandrami 9y ago
  (I should clarify: I know some of the State Department staff in Havana; I don't know any of the injured people.) My understanding is that nobody is entirely clear whether this is permanent or not. Some people have recovered quickly and others are still having lingering effects. Several suffered a concussion, which just doesn't work -- I work for an audio simulation company (think jets and helicopters) and there's just no way audible sound or even infrasound can do this. OTOH, there is a theory that guided infrasound can do serious tissue damage, which was possibly the cause of Dyatlov Pass[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
  • necessity 9y ago
    >Dyatlov Pass Incident What the actual fuck? This is better than any horror movie I've seen.
  • Iv 9y ago
    I think the safer bet is that the cause is not sonic and that the sounds perceived are illusions.
    • bandrami 9y ago
      Agreed
    • alexandersingh 9y ago
      In the good old days, we'd have just gotten Mulder and Scully on the case...Those were simpler times...
    • throwawaymanbot 9y ago
      Bingo.
  • tmxrc 9y ago
    Has anyone taken a serious look at the possibility that the origin could be biologic? There are numerous drugs that can cause repetitive auditory hallucinations, mild brain injury, and CNS damage. A sufficiently advanced actor could easily try to sophisticate a new substance that would enable this kind of attack without showing up on toxicology screens.
    • throwawaymanbot 9y ago
      well, as was reported by one individual, that moving away from their bed caused the noise to stop and moving back to their bed caused them to hear the noise again, might possibly rule this out.