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2026-02-17 Science & Technology

Scientist gives himself brain damage by testing secret audio weapon on himself in attempt to disprove 'Havana Syndrome'

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1842 views ] Top

1 Supposedly this was what was mounted on the sides of the choppers in Venezuela and they turned it on and everyone inside Maudro's complex fell down and started bleeding from the ears. He didn't make it to his safe room and was bundled into a chopper and is resting in prison now where he will spend the rest of his life, just like Pineapple Face, whoever that moron in Panama was. He tried hiding in the Papal Nuncio. In the 90s I met a soldier who was involved, he chose the songs that were blasted at top volume. "I fought the law and the law won" was his favorite.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-17 07:38|| 2026-02-17 07:38|| Front Page Top

2 Supposedly

Eh? Any reference for this?

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-17 08:08|| 2026-02-17 08:08|| Front Page Top

3 Reportedly, the Norwegian government told the CIA about the secretive experiments and their disastrous results.

Hat tip to Sven and Olaf, but something tells me the "disastrous results" came as absolutely no surprise. Our Embassy testing control group volunteers have reported identical anomalies.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-02-17 08:12|| 2026-02-17 08:12|| Front Page Top

4 And it even wasn't a TikTok challenge.

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-02-17 09:14|| 2026-02-17 09:14|| Front Page Top

5 Oh, you don't subscribe to Popo Medic? He's all over this kind of thing doing Monday Morning quarterbacking. My favorite one is when the Navy Seals shot it out with LA gangs.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-17 09:41|| 2026-02-17 09:41|| Front Page Top

6 Oh, that didn't say anything about the weapon, my mistake. It was this one by Asmongold.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-17 10:20|| 2026-02-17 10:20|| Front Page Top

7 ^ Well, that's it. I'm totes convinced. Nobody would make shit up on YouTube

Posted by Frank G 2026-02-17 10:24|| 2026-02-17 10:24|| Front Page Top

8 microwave ovens work by exciting water molecules and causing them to heat.
I remember a passage from Tom Clancy about the radars on an Aegis cruiser at full power cooking birds in flight.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2026-02-17 10:38|| 2026-02-17 10:38|| Front Page Top

9 There was lots of speculation about what the raiders used. Ditto about the cause of Havana Syndrome. The Norwegian was an arrogant idiot LARPing as a researcher, because he clearly hadn’t the proper mindset for the work.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-02-17 11:33|| 2026-02-17 11:33|| Front Page Top

10 Work backwards:
According to the Washington Post...
According to the CIA...

Scientist is never named. Anonymous source(s). I do not know what they gain by lying, but I simply do not trust anonymous sources, and no one names the scientist. IDK

Panama - Some marine buddies said that was an awesome deployment. Someone in their platoon bought a BBQ, am not sure about the logistics of that, but that's what they said, and they said they were barbecuing while blasting Van Halen's Panama and Metallica over a military grade PA.

Posted by mossomo 2026-02-17 13:15|| 2026-02-17 13:15|| Front Page Top

11 You buy the shit they promote, Jr?

Posted by Skidmark 2026-02-17 17:40|| 2026-02-17 17:40|| Front Page Top

12 I've mentioned MASERs here for years. I guess they don't get Rantburg in Norway.

Posted by Woodrow 2026-02-17 19:04|| 2026-02-17 19:04|| Front Page Top

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