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by derefr 2028 days ago
Collimated microwaves (i.e. a maser) pointed directly at the skull, from a distance, through a window, I'd assume.

What are the reported symptoms from military radio engineers standing in the transmission path of high-power/long-distance ship-to-ship microwave links?

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To directly point radiwaves, you need very very high frequencies, and with skin effect, those don't go very deep into a humans head (we're talking millimeters or less here).
You mean like into ears? I mean that's the reported symptom... your ears are your skin so are your eyes.
Trying to align a microwave link on a ship that's floating (i.e. not completely steady) sounds like a horrible nightmare.