More On The Cuban Diplomats Attacked With Sonic Weapons

The weapons were audible:

The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room.

…On Tuesday, the State Department disclosed that doctors had confirmed another two cases, bringing the total American victims to 21. Some have mild traumatic brain injury, known as a concussion, and others permanent hearing loss.

Even the potential motive is unclear. Investigators are at a loss to explain why Canadians were harmed, too, including some who reported nosebleeds. Fewer than 10 Canadian diplomatic households in Cuba were affected, a Canadian official said. Unlike the U.S., Canada has maintained warm ties to Cuba for decades.

Could be North Koreans, could be Venezuelans. Could even be somebody else. The fact it could be heard and noted makes me wonder if it was supposed to be noticed. Spies don’t ever talk to each other about what makes them angry. Instead they prefer simply doing things to register their displeasure. It is possible we irradiated some facility somewhere as a way of detecting something going on in it, thinking they would never notice, and it turns out they did notice, and this is their way of saying they are not pleased.

The technology is not classified, if this is what they used:

His sound-focusing invention, known as HyperSonic Sound, starts by generating ultrasonic — above the range of human hearing — sound waves, which can be focused in a tight beam rather than spreading out in all directions.

As these high-frequency sound waves pass through the air, they generate lower-frequency sounds that people can hear. By stepping into the “beam,” a person can hear sound that someone standing a foot or more away can’t detect.

“It’s going to quiet everything down,” Norris said. “If you don’t want to be bothered by it, you step to one side and you don’t hear it.”

The article is from 2005, yet we still have not seen it roll out yet, making me wonder if in the interim somebody discovered that one side effect was what these diplomats are experiencing.

Hypersonic sound can alter brain function, which might have been the objective:

We used the gamelan music of Bali, which is extremely rich in HFCs with a nonstationary structure, as a natural sound source, dividing it into two components: an audible low-frequency component (LFC) below 22 kHz and an HFC above 22 kHz. Brain electrical activity and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured as markers of neuronal activity while subjects were exposed to sounds with various combinations of LFCs and HFCs. None of the subjects recognized the HFC as sound when it was presented alone. Nevertheless, the power spectra of the alpha frequency range of the spontaneous electroencephalogram (alpha-EEG) recorded from the occipital region increased with statistical significance when the subjects were exposed to sound containing both an HFC and an LFC, compared with an otherwise identical sound from which the HFC was removed (i.e., LFC alone). In contrast, compared with the baseline, no enhancement of alpha-EEG was evident when either an HFC or an LFC was presented separately. Positron emission tomography measurements revealed that, when an HFC and an LFC were presented together, the rCBF in the brain stem and the left thalamus increased significantly compared with a sound lacking the HFC above 22 kHz but that was otherwise identical. Simultaneous EEG measurements showed that the power of occipital alpha-EEGs correlated significantly with the rCBF in the left thalamus. Psychological evaluation indicated that the subjects felt the sound containing an HFC to be more pleasant than the same sound lacking an HFC. These results suggest the existence of a previously unrecognized response to complex sound containing particular types of high frequencies above the audible range. We term this phenomenon the “hypersonic effect.”

Of course sonic warfare is an interesting field with some study having already been done:

While different types and levels of sonic warfare have been used with varying results, the characteristics of infrasound lend it certain possibilities to be used as a particularly effective weapon. The low frequency of infrasonic sound and its corresponding long wavelength make it much more capable of bending around or penetrating the human body, creating an oscillating pressure system. Depending on the frequency, different parts of the body will resonate, which can have very unusual non-auditory effects. For example, one occurs at 19 Hz at relatively safe sound levels (< 100 dB). If you sit in front of a very good subwoofer and play a 19-Hz sound (or have access to a sound programmer and get an audible sound to modulate at 19Hz), try taking off your glasses or removing your contacts. Your eyes will twitch. If you turn up the volume toward 110 dB, you may even start seeing colored lights at the periphery of your vision or ghostly gray regions in the center. This is because 19 Hz is the resonant frequency of the human eyeball. The low-frequency pulsations start distorting the eyeball’s shape and pushing on the retina, activating the rods and cones by pressure rather than light. Studies have indicated that almost any part of the body, based on its volume and makeup, will vibrate at specific frequencies with enough power. Human eyeballs are fluid-filled ovoids, lungs are gas-filled membranes, and the human n1abdomen contains a variety of liquid-, solid-, and gas-filled pockets. All of these structures have limits to how much they can stretch when subjected to force, so if you provide enough power behind a vibration, they will stretch and shrink in time with the low-frequency vibrations of the air molecules around them. Since we don’t hear infrasonic frequencies very well, we are often unaware of exactly how loud the sounds are. At 130 dB, the inner ear will start undergoing direct pressure distortions unrelated to normal hearing, which can affect one’s ability to understand speech. At about 150 dB, people start complaining about nausea and whole body vibrations, usually in the chest and abdomen. By the time 166 dB is reached, people start noticing problems breathing, as the low-frequency pulses start impacting the lungs, reaching a critical point at about 177 dB, when infrasound from 0.5 to 8 Hz can actually drive sonically induced artificial respiration at an abnormal rhythm.

My guess is we know exactly who did this, and as spies are wont to do, our people are about to fuck up a whole new batch of the officers of whatever foreign agency was involved. If you are a US spook overseas, I would up the paranoia several levels, because once we take our shots and register our displeasure, it is not impossible the people who we are trading blows with will decide to target our people again to register their’s.

Don’t fuck around or take chances, and up the unpredictability.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because they may not be able to hear or think once the Apocalypse begins and the sonic weapons come out