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Quote:'Sonic Attack' on U.S. Embassy in Cuba Was Actually Crickets, Study Says
"In 2016, exams on nearly two dozen diplomats at the United States Embassy in Havana showed confusionlike symptoms or similar brain injuries after the staff complained of headaches, nausea and hearing loss from constant and high-pitched sounds.
Conspiracy theories suggested the staff was being targeted by an acoustic weapon, but both United Kingdom and U.S. scientists believe they have an answer to the mysterious sound: crickets."
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“There’s plenty of debate in the medical community over what, if any, physical damage there is to these individuals,” Stubbs told the Independent. “All I can say fairly definitively is that the AP-released recording is of a cricket, and we think we know what species it is.”
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“The paper shows how the cricket’s song could, when echoes to be expected in an indoor setting are taken into account, produce sounds strikingly, and quantitatively, similar to that provided by the AP," Gerald Pollack of Montreal's McGill University told the Guardian. "I find this a completely plausible explanation.”
https://weather.com/news/news/2019-01-08...s-crickets
We can no longer use "crickets" to mean silence.
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Jan 14, 2019, 14:34 pm
(This post was last modified: Jan 14, 2019, 14:35 pm by politux. Edited 1 time in total.)
Crickets have never meant silence. Crickets mean when there are no other sounds, you hear ambient noise, which in the country is crickets. You must be a city boy!
Also this sounds like a made up CIA cover story for a failed plot to take over Cuba. The Bay of Dueda if you will.
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(Jan 14, 2019, 14:34 pm)politux Wrote: Crickets have never meant silence. Crickets mean when there are no other sounds, you hear ambient noise, which in the country is crickets.
You must be fun at parties!
If you disagree with me again, I'll sick my crickets on you.
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(Jan 14, 2019, 14:53 pm)neanderthal Wrote: (Jan 14, 2019, 14:34 pm)politux Wrote: Crickets have never meant silence. Crickets mean when there are no other sounds, you hear ambient noise, which in the country is crickets.
You must be fun at parties!
If you disagree with me again, I'll sick my crickets on you.
If you mess around with dirty senioritas in Cuba, you'll be attacked by crotch crickets...
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(Jan 14, 2019, 14:34 pm)politux Wrote: ... a failed plot to take over Cuba. The Bay of Dueda if you will.
Winston could rename the site to "The Piglet Bay" for a day!
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(Jan 14, 2019, 20:05 pm)dueda Wrote: Winston could rename the site to "The Piglet Bay" for a day!
He would have to become percipient first.
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Guess he hadn't been even prepubescent lately.
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