re: #340 tradewind

See, military personnel from our side have had it tried on them. Voluntarily.
Not pleasant, but not fatal, either.
The problem now is with the perception. If they don’t fear for their lives, what’s the point?
Personally, I think we’d do better to work on psychological protocols that disabuse them of the seventy virgins thing.

Keep working on the mind stuff, of course, but the genius of waterboarding is that very few indeed can prepare themselves for the sheer biological terror it inflicts. In many cases, the higher brain more or less wigs out because the lower brain centers are flooded with messages and indications of near-term death. Rare indeed in the Paul Atreides who can overcome the pain-box.