January 7, 2019
"I am not surprised that this call could disturb people who are not familiar with insect sounds."
"The recording is definitively a cricket that belongs to [the Indies short-tailed cricket, known formally as Anurogryllus celerinictus]. The call of this Caribbean species is about 7 kHz, and is delivered at an unusually high rate, which gives humans the sensation of a continuous sharp trill," said Fernando Montealegre-Zapata, a professor of sensory biology at the University of Lincoln, quoted in "'Sonic attack' on US embassy in Havana could have been crickets, say scientists/Noise which saw diplomats complaining of headaches and nausea could be song of Indies short-tailed cricket" (The Guardian).
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It was an explanation that appeared to gain weight when an audio recording of a persistent, high-pitched drone made by US personnel in Cuba was released to the Associated Press.
Why were the US personnel making a high-pitched drone?!?
Many more "insect politics" posts than I expected.
You cover it all!
Great explanation. Too bad microwave detectors actually registered the attacks in Cuba and China.
Yoko.
Oh fer fuck's sake. It's almost certainly a Chinese or Russian eavesdropping device that malfunctioned.
Would forever change the no-response expression... "crickets".
I have a MFJ ultrasonic parabolic ear that's for finding sparking powerline transformers in the 40kHz range
https://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-5008
All I've detected so far is buried natural gas line compressor noise, which is all over the neighborhood. So far nobody is reporting brain damage.
And the USA has done what exactly - in retaliation?
Unless there was retaliation, there was no attack.
Who knew that crickets had names like Fidel and Raul--maybe even Che. The cricket named Che rode up on a motorcycle. You have to be an editor at the Guardian to swallow hogwash like this.
We pulled the diplomats out of the country, recall entous at the new Yorker didnt think much of it, it's not crickets.
The attack probably wasn't sonic, and the sound was a coincidence.
The Guardian is still ticked off because the US killed a Guardian journo in the first Bourne movie.
That was the only commendable part of it, remember this was seven years before snowden
Yeah, as an explanation of the problem "crickets" doesn't really cut it.
People reported serious injuries--permanent hearing loss. Unless that's been revised we don't have an answer as to what harmed them.
It makes sense to say "the noise that some people thought might have been what caused the injuries to staff turns out to have been crickets and not what caused harm" but it does not make sense to say "the thing that caused harm wasn't some weapon but was instead crickets."
I had no idea you could train crickets.
They have background:
https://babalublog.com/2019/01/06/surprise-scientist-at-uc-berkeley-backs-up-castro-regime-lies-about-sonic-attacks/
So, why the sonic attacks? I thought we loved the Castro family, and Cuba has wonderful health care!
BTW, people on the Youtube have uploaded 8 hours of "Cricket Sounds".
NO bot would do that!
Good Lord, have these idiots never been in Georgia when millions of cicadas emerge?
Crickets can be loud. Ear plugs can help you sleep.
I've slept out in the quiet, peaceful country, and sometimes just tried to but couldn't, with all the wildlife noises. I can just imagine what it's like in Cuba.
It's fake news, probably some kind of ultra high frequency signal.
It's microwaves. It was proven. The sound the person hears is generated in their own head--like tinnitus. Microphones in the room didn't pick up any sound during an attack. This microwave response by the body has been documented before.
I doubt that crickets would cause these neurological findings.
But maybe they have bad ass crickets.
We can believe this. I think Al Gore's and Obama's scientists have already endorsed it. Of course, these scientists have inhaled too much jet exhausts from the respective private jets.
And, the same people will be saying that ebola is nothing but a mild skin rash caused by ant bites. We can believe that too? Of course.
If you didn't have commie apologist Professor Shoe, you'd have Freder or Cookie coming up with porkies to protect their Cuban and Chinese friends. Commies close ranks/protect the franchise.
Of course Cookie isn't a commie. He's just the only world authority on who is and isn't a real one.
Crickets in the building. I guess that means it was rat-free, so there's that.
The leading alternative theory is that the concussion-like symptoms were the result of a mass psychogenic event, which was apparently induced by crickets.
Bugging other peoples' embassy is hardly Cricket.
Was up a track in the Okavango Delta to a hippo pool 2 days ago. They make this really loud sound like a groaning fart. Hard to describe but one of the worst sounds from an animal I’ve heard yet. The more I learn about them the more hippos gross me out.
Let's look at this puzzle from the perspective of a multiple [4-]choice test. If you know that 3 of the answers are probably wrong, and the 4th you're not sure about, you quickly pick the 4th. And move on to complete the test before time expires.
Since the same kind of brain damage experienced in Cuba has also been reported in China (and previously in Moscow), were Cuban crickets imported to China and Russia? Probably not.
Vox offers 4 choices:
What’s happening to US diplomats in Cuba and China? Here are 4 theories.
One of them is an attack from a “sonic weapon.”
Updated Jun 8, 2018
'...1) Sonic weapon
The first and most obvious one is that there is some kind of sonic weapon being used to target the diplomats, although it’s unclear if Cuba or China has that kind of weaponry, even though sonic devices exist.
For example, there’s a “mosquito” that produces a high-pitched sound and long-range acoustic devices that police sometimes use to disperse crowds.
But there’s a big problem with this theory, says Sharon Weinberger, an expert on weapons technology and author of the book The Imagineers of War: The kind of weapon that does what the victims describe would defy the laws of physics...“The danger of saying it’s a sonic weapon is that you’re focusing on the least likely explanation,” Weinberger told me.
2) Sonic listening device
US diplomats could be the victims of a sonic listening device that emits harmful waves. A sonic device used for spying — and wielded by Cuba, China, or even another country like Russia — could unintentionally cause brain damage.
These devices usually operate at the ultrasonic level (above audible range) or the infrasonic level (below audible range). Some doctors believe infrasound is more likely to have been used because it travels greater distances than ultrasound, so attackers could use it from farther away...
3) Toxin
4) Mass hysteria
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/8/17438032/china-cuba-diplomat-attack-sonic-weapon
NYT (Dec. 12, 2018)
"...Two years after Americans posted at the United States Embassy in Havana began experiencing the peculiar phenomenon, doctors at the University of Miami on Wednesday published a scientific paper that confirms what these patients have said all along: Their condition is real, not the result of mass hysteria, a response to intense news media coverage or a stress reaction to being evacuated, as doctors in Cuba had suggested."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/americas/cuba-embassy-attacks.html
My quick, but not perfectly informed choice is: (2) Sonic listening device (infrasound) even though it doesn't make the noise of Cuban crickets:
Lifehacker 6/07/18
Can Sound Make You Sick?
How Infrasound Affects the Human Body
'Infrasound, or infrasonic sound, on the other hand, is a completely different beast. These sounds come in under 20Hz...But infrasound can also be manmade, and it can have some seriously weird effects on the human body. It’s been known to cause symptoms like headaches, dizziness, annoyance, fatigue, tinnitus, heart palpitations, and a general feeling of pressure on the abdomen. It’s also not uncommon for people to experience nausea when exposed to infrasound, which is funny when you realize the word “noise” is derived from the Latin word “nausea.”.'
https://lifehacker.com/can-sound-make-you-sick-1826641222
Al Sharpton's office has been known to get infested with crickets whose mating call sounds like "niggardly, niggardly"
The "cricket" hypothesis would be easy to test. It's putative cause is unambiguous and could be tested in a laboratory. 11 women and 10 men exhibited concussion-like symptoms, which should improve selecting a population sample.
Sonic listening device
Why would crickets want to listen in on an embassy?
(eaglebeak)
Isn't The Guardian the one that recently published an article claiming that Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy?
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/02/five-weeks-after-the-guardians-viral-blockbuster-assangemanafort-scoop-no-evidence-has-emerged-just-stonewalling/
Publishing since 1821 and still stupid.
I guess Cuban crickets never took Josquin as their mentor.
Isn't The Guardian the one
They are also critical of "white girls next door". And are committed advocates of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming, an "existential threat."
Most likely electro-magnetic beams of some sort are being aimed at some cleverly designed recording device hidden or built into the embassies. Depending on the frequency, these beams could go right through any conventional walls etc. In order to avoid detection, a device could be completely electrically passive until lit up with some specific EM frequency. Transmitting power like this would probably be very dangerous, tending to cook anyone in the way. It would also tend to mess with people's sense of hearing. Whoever is doing this are supreme assholes.
Another explanation is that they don't even need to hide devices in the embassy. Just shoot something like T-waves in and have arrays of antennas gather the scatter and analyze it for images and sound vibration. Search "camera that can see around corners" to see the amazing technology that is publicly known.
I had remembered the tale of the US embassy that was built with Soviet labor in the 1970's and then basically abandoned by the U.S because they had too many listening devices imbedded in concrete and structural members. Employees at the U.S embassy were developing cancers and leukemia rates that far exceeded actuarial norms because of the microwave energy beamed into it 24/7. Why would it surprise anyone that a socialist shithole like Cuba was doing this too? Its who these people are, its what they do.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/U-S-Finally-Opens-Moscow-Embassy-Building-was-2714015.php
FWIW, here are some clips of the cricket sounds - https://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/492a.htm
StephenFearby said...
"Vox offers 4 choices:
"1) Sonic weapon
"The first and most obvious one is that there is some kind of sonic weapon . . . . But there’s a big problem with this theory, says Sharon Weinberger . . . : The kind of weapon that does what the victims describe would defy the laws of physics.
"2) Sonic listening device
"US diplomats could be the victims of a sonic listening device that emits harmful waves. A sonic device used for spying — and wielded by Cuba, China, or even another country like Russia — could unintentionally cause brain damage."
But mustn't the objection to #1 -- that it would defy the laws of physics -- apply equally to #2? It sounds like #2 is a weapon in all but name.
Good old Vox, dispassionately logical as always.
My name is cuban Pete, I am the master of the Cricket beat, In HAVANNNA!
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