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Originally posted by whitewave
Yeah, I have one of those neurophones but was slightly underimpressed with it. If you know how to build one of the original types, that would be great. What a wonderful piece of technology if it actually worked as advertised! U2U me with details.
Yes, Flannigan got into some strange "off-beat" subjects. I read his pyramid book, built a pyramid and tried some of the experiments mentioned in his book. New age stuff is interesting to me in the same way car wrecks on the highway are interesting: I don't want to investigate what i know will be a mess but I just can't keep from looking anyway.
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
Each to his own - but there are other more prosaic explanations for feelings that you are being controlled by external forces.
Originally posted by Long Lance
please note that i'm using wiki on purpose. then there's the argument about wavelengths and how large antennae are required. i urge everyone to consider the follwoing, simple combination of facts:
your run of the mill mocrowave oven operates at ~2.45GHz, the wavelength being approximately 4.5".... now, how large is a water molecule? does it always take an antenna with dimensions in the same ballpark as wavelength? you decide.
furthermore, genuine ELF is unneeded. just modulate a more useable frequency. (dunno if this was said before)
Originally posted by Long Lance
wrt wavelengths, i never said it would work with any frequency, a single usable frequency band would be enough to use it for stimulation - whatever the net results may be. it doesn't need to affect water, it needs to affect the nervous system (or living tissue in general?), which, i imagine is not very conducive to lab testing.
the idea that changing emotional states directly may be flawed, but it's clear that uncomfortable influences will negatively affect someone's mood, just like sleep deprivation. i freely admit that José Delgado's direct electrical stimulation experiments are the real reason for my scepticism.
combine that with sensory substitution, as evidenced by the Flanagan neurophone
and Brainport (thread on ATS: www.abovetopsecret.com...) and i think there's plenty of reason to take reports of such a technology seriously.
regarding modulation, it seems as if using carrier & modulation worked quite well for voice transmission, whether you're willing to look at envelopes or not. what i can only speculate is how effective such a technique would be under which circumstances. it's still plain as day to me that the auditory effect can be used to convey more than 'ringing ears', where the limits are i have no idea but then all of this is merely intended to establish plausibility.
Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
You brought up this dielectric heating example and tried to pawn it off as a general condition, when it's very specific to the microwave band, which given that the discussion is about ELF, isn't applicable.
That out of the way, we're back to my original point, ELF won't interact as a radio wave with a human, or much of anything else either.
If the e-field isn't spinning around the polar molecule at the right rates, it won't couple into the molecules at all because there's not a "slot" that fits.
Delgado had wires in the bull's limbic system. That's not really all that applicable.
The brainport thing is old hat. I recall them doing it with a pinpricker you wore under your shirt. I still can't fathom how "mind control with ELF" relates to sensory stuff like this.
You do know you can't modulate ELF faster than a slow crawl, right? You'd get bored sending Morse on it, you can forget anything faster. No audio, no video.
Modulating a carrier works fine for voice transmission - to a radio. You can't hear modulation of a radio signal. Radio isn't sound. I've seen this one pop up too. It's not the same in any way. For some reasons, the idea of modulating a radio signal with audio leads people to think the audio is still there - it's not, not as audio.
Tinnitus is as old as the human race, I'm afraid, it's a common problem. I've got it myself in one ear, and in my case I know how it happened. Some days it's worse than others. But it's there whether I'm in the SCIF (which is TEMPEST rated - nothing much gets in) or not. I have it even in closed Faraday chambers they use for certain types of emissions testing and susceptibility tests. It doesn't vary when the door's open or closed - and NOTHING is getting in there from the outside.
Originally posted by Long Lancei interpreted the thread more along the lines of 'possible mind control by radio waves' tbh.
it seems that way. extreme differences between wavelength and antenna indicate that coupling won't happen, but we have a counterexample on a smaller scale in the shape of microwaves vs. water.
how many 'slots' does a human boday have, that's the question. i freely admit that all of this is pure speculation, it's just something i'd look at if i seriously investigated EM interference in humans (not limited to ELF band).
it shows that 'mind control' by direct stimulation is possible. a radio signal wouldn't have the luxury of direct contacts and would therefore affect the whole body, which would greatly limit selectivity. as long as EM immissions cause miniscule current distributions and as long as currents are capable of influencing the neural systems, the existance of a mechanism is still possible, however.
i started out with the auditory effect because it's obvious how it could be used to control people (provided a discernible voice sensation can be induced and as long as they actually listen to what the voice says and don't know of the microwave auditory effect). now, if 'brainport' actually generates a visual sensation in a person, it would clearly show that senses can be tricked in various ways and while remotely transmitting complex pictures are probably out of the question, inducing a feeling has got to be much simpler. i have no personal experience with brainport and if they were using misleading advertising, though. might as well only tickle your tongue, i dunno.
regarding low bandwith: what about ON = complacent and OFF = rebellious? or vice versa?
so how much does it take to demodulate, say an AM signal????
it's unfortunately true that far too many are probably just delusional or mislead. i only hope i'm not one of them.
PS: if 'mind control' or EM harassment are real i'm almost 100% positive these techniques require quite intense power settings.