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Aluminum Foil Hats Will Not Stop "Them"
Otter writes "A study at MIT has found that aluminum foil headwear ("Among a fringe community of paranoids..the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals") actually amplifies certain frequency bands allocated to the US government, as well as a mobile phone range, and is largely ineffective through the rest of the radio spectrum. But we can we trust the study, or are They controlling the researchers?"
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
That was highly appropriate.
out of focus can be just the same as blocked for purposes of radio wave transmission.
two much gain means a lot of signal noise.
besides, I wear a lead skull cap myself, keep my hair shaved so that I can be in constant contact with the metal of the cap..
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
I knew it all along. They WANTED us to wear foil hats to amplify their spy rays.
Certain psychotic people seem to focus on the aluminum hat / radio waves are controlling me thing. It is quite universal. What is it that makes it a common theme ?
It has to be TIN foil.
Now, this is the type of information we all come to slashdot for.....
Lies! All lies! THEY are trying to trick you into taking it off! And it's not paranoia if everyone really is out to get you!
Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
Yesss!!! But .. uuh .. did they paint their hats an off shade of GREEN??!?!
.. and.. and .. bounce off of me..
Then the signals think that I'm a tree
Kinda like my WiFi connection..
= Grow a brain...
That's why we need to protect our precious bodily fluids.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
-John
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Everyone knows that you need to put the shiny side on the outside to reflect the signals. Obviously, this guy put the dull side out and it absorbed the signal...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Great, vi vs. emaacs wasn't enough. Bring on the *foil-hat zealotry!
I thought that the whole point of the exercise was to submit to control.
You really should try it. It's quite liberating to submit to anothers control.
Don't you feel better whenever you hit the 'Submit' button on Slashdot?
SUBMIT DAMN YOU! I TOLD YOU TO SUBMIT!!
I posted this the last time aluminum foil hats was brought up.
Everyone knows that aluminum did not exist before 1992. It was at that time that the Reynolds corporation made a bid to take over the US Government. Reynolds, an alliance between the city of Marina Del Rey and Tom Arnold (look it up, I don't use Google because they track my searches) began producing "anti Illuminati medium" or a-lumin-um by extracting the "conductivity" from steel, a naturally occuring mineral.
Reynolds knew that the CIA and FBI were using mind control through the "cable networks" to persuade the population to upgrade to HBO, the mouthpiece for the Masonic Order of the Illuminati.
You all just think you remember aluminum existing before 1992 because you do not wear your beanies, and have been influenced by HBO. Still need proof? Consider these facts:
1. If you travel outside the US, you will find that no other countries use or have heard of aluminum. (England has something similar called aluminium, which was developed in tandem by Margaret Thatcher's shadow government.)
2. If you travel to another country and they say that they have aluminum, you have not actually travelled to another country, but are on a HBO-enduced mind control trip.
3. Aluminum does not get hot in the oven. I've made thousands of fish sticks in the years after 1992, and no matter how badly I burn them, I can always lift them by the corners of the aluminum foil I placed them on.
You're doing it wrong. You have to use thickfoil.
> What the hell?
Yeah. You know. "They". As in Them.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
You need one of these.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
.... to pass the time between Google posts.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
What did you expect? A dating site?
Only a total newbie would trust aluminum foil. Which is why us true paranoids always wear full copper-mesh body-suits. Faraday-cage appearal - the chain-mail for a new generation.
Any self-respecting paranoid knows you don't use aluminum precisely *because* it amplifies certain frequencies. That's why you use tin foil for your hats.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
A: Yes. Especially if you shape them like a dunce's cap.
Our first hat was a stainless steel mixing bowl. GPS reception continued. We were even able to get WAAS and Omnistar HP lockup with the mixing bowl on top of the antenna.
An actual tinfoil hat cut off more of GPS, but we could still get "single" GPS signals, although not the corrections for Omnistar.
So the radiolocation bands really do get through.
Which is why the real paranoid can easily be identified from the chain or copper wire attached to his foil hat that trails behind him.
Synthetic fabric carpets prevent the grounding effect of the wire, and you'll notice these carpets are standard issue in government building. Coincidence? I think not.
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In my extensive history of attempted blocking of radio waves i have found the best foil is
8 8*
U.S. Foil Co pre 1924 manufactured foil.
This is a foil of a tin lead mixture.
It is very hard to get as I have scoured the united states for almost my whole life in search of this foil.
I only release this information now as I have stockpiles of foil to last me 6 lifetimes.
The following code is to disrupt the HBDFH scanners that the goverment implimented in 1988. Use this code in all your online messages
UYG8756obP(867rvI&O*&Z(*%*INLI&%%%%%%%%%888*888*8
..is who's behind motivating some of America's so-called "greatest minds" to waste their time investigating such pointless pursuits, when there are soft drink machines in dorm buildings, whose current inventory of Mountain Dew is not known.
The "tin-foil" hat cliche is designed to predjudice and ridicule any one who doesn't by the mainline story. Go google aboyt COINTELPRO and CIA+"Mighty Wurlitzer" or the real dirt on MK-Ultra or Franklin+Bonacci.
You'd wish tin-foil did work.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Maybe. What are you wearing? ;-)
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
NOOOO! Don't listen to him. He's trying to get you to put the dull side inside the cap so that your brain waves are amplified and easier to detect by the government mind reading machines! You need a two layer TFH with shiny on the inside AND out!!! It keeps the brain waves in and the mind control waves out! Everyone KNOWS that! Everyone knows...
A tinfoil hat and a smile, baby ;-)
From Monster of course!
...everyone's fascination with aluminum siding in the 50's! Boy those government guys sure were smart back then!
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
They are liars! They are just saying that so you'll take the tin foil hats off and they can mess with the inside of your heads!!! *duct tapes tin foil hat on*
Buy some aluminum foil. Take the whole role, and scrunch it into a ball. Said ball will absorb the mind control rays for you. Wear it as a necklace on a plastic string. voila! Fashionable and mind control free accessorization.
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/gwen-haarp-satell ite-gps-emf-control-grid.htm
Damn, tinfoil is no good? Guess I need to switch to my lead lined hat now. And a neck brace.
This was an attempt by the government to kill off those of us aware of the true nature of things! Think about it!
Tinfoil - Free, cheap, non-toxic (Unless you eat it to absorb its properties.. but those people are just crazy).
What's the alternative? Why LEAD of course! It blocks everything! But simply wearing it on our heads..That can be lethal! The lead will permeate the skin on our skulls and give us lead poisoning directly in our brains! And it ain't cheap either! How can I continue to afford to stock up on freeze-dried astronaut food??! And don't even get me going about how heavy it is.. My head could snap clear off my spine because of the weight!
Damn you, government sponsored scientists! You've FOILED our plans again!
Not only is MindGaurd a FOSS compatible with GNU/Linux but its technologically light years ahead of your quaint little tinfoil hats.
Hats shmats, this does NOTHING about the microphones the aliens hide in your fillings and the wires up the back of your nose.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Your foil hat will only work if you properly ground it.
So, you need to run a wire from your hat down to your shoes and use antistatic shoe straps to ground yourself. It will also work better when the ground is wet.
I guess foil hat wearers will have no problem wetting themselves, they just need to funnel it down, since having wet pants won't help, they need wet shoes...
Oh well, what the hell...
I've been throwing up a lot lately though, I think They're getting in.
A few years ago, one of the new-agey junk catalogs actually had aluminized hats,
as well as the usual collection of crystals, shiny things, bogus magnetic devices, and, ummm, tachyon bracelets. It's been long enough ago that I don't remember the details, but I think the hats were some kind of cloth with an aluminized mylar or aluminum paint layer or something similar. I think they even had a removable grounding strap.
Now, unlike why people want to obtain and wear such things, I don't know - I suspect the joke is much much more common than the actual practice. But the reason why people want to *sell* them is much more obvious - it's because they think there are suckers who want to buy them. The interesting question is whether they found enough suckers who actually *did* buy them to keep making the things.
Personally, if I were to get an aluminum hat (except as a costume for a science fiction conventions), it'd be a bicycle helmet. Doesn't matter that it keeps the CIA space alien hunters from beaming things into my head, as long as it keeps out the car hoods and asphalt, though blinky-lights and reflector tape are probably much more useful than aluminum color would be.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
We really should be reading all the Anonymous Coward posts in this thread - I mean, really, how much can you trust the tin-hat knowledge of someone who posts using an actual name?
We should also expect that anything true will get modded down to -1. Change your filters, guys, change your filters!!
--LWM
And they used borrowed equipment, though it was good stuff and quite expensive, and if some bureaucrat wanted to amortize the depreciation on it, a few hours use might have made this an expensive project.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Ch-chuck posted the URL for a catalog that carries an EMF-protection hat and lots of other scientifically bogus stuff. Not sure if it's quite the same hat, but it's heart is in the right place.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
Wearning a tin foil hat increases my WiFi performance.