On 5/04/2019 12:22 pm, Miloch wrote:
> Russian Military Journal Claims Psychic Soldiers Can Crash Computers and Control
> Dolphins
>
> https://gizmodo.com/russian-military-journal-claims-psychic-soldiers-can-cr-1833816412
>
> A journal published by Russia’s Ministry of Defense became the subject of
> mockery this week after publishing claims that “Russian specialists” have
> communicated with dolphins, crashed computer programs, and even looked into
> safes using the power of telepathy.
>
> As first highlighted by Russian media outlet RBC, the February issue of Army
> Collection featured a story titled “The Super-Soldier of Future Wars.” In it,
> reserve colonel Nikolai Poroskov detailed a variety of bizarre abilities related
> to “parapsychology,” a science once used by “Babylonian priests.”
>
> According to Poroskov, Russian special forces in Chechnya employed these
> parapsychological techniques, which he elsewhere compared to “superpowers.” From
> Army Collection:
>
> The uninitiated know little about this unique technology. But one aspect is
> clear—telepathic contact. Russian specialists achieved it by working with
> dolphins. They mentally gave the animals commands that they performed. This was
> practiced by the famous animal trainer Durov. The technique, it turns out, is
> also applicable to humans. Moreover, it’s even possible to effect technology.
> With an effort of thought one can, for example, crash computer programs, burn
> crystals in generators, eavesdrop on a conversation, or interrupt television and
> radio transmissions.
>
> Experiments like these were successful: reading a document lying in a safe, even
> if it was in a foreign language the person did not speak; identifying
> individuals belonging to a terrorist network; identification of potential
> candidates for terrorist groups.
>
> As outlandish as Poroskov’s claims may sound, the U.S. and Russia have indeed
> studied both psychic phenomena and military applications for dolphins. However,
> neither country has previously claimed the kind of success described in Army
> Collection, an official publication of Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
>
> Speaking to RBC, Yevgeny Alexandrov, the chairman of the Russian Academy of
> Sciences’ anti-pseudoscience commission, dismissed parapsychology as a “fairy
> tale” and said there is no scientific basis for telepathy.
>
> “[Military parapsychology] programs really existed and were developed, but were
> classified,” Alexandrov told the outlet. “Now they come out into the light. But,
> as in many countries of the world, such studies are recognized as
> pseudoscientific, all this is complete nonsense.” According to Alexandrov, these
> military experiments were last conducted in Russia in the early 2000s.
>
> On social media, many ridiculed the Army Collection article’s claims, but at
> least one Russian Twitter user saw some truth in the story.
>
> ---> “It works,” they wrote. “I have just had luck completing an experiment with
> reading a colleague’s thoughts. He wants to go the fuck home.”
>
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> https://sc.mil.ru/social/media/magazine/archive.htm
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
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