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Building a Better Tin Foil Hat
An anonymous reader writes "Now you can wear a Tin Foil Hat and not be subject to ridicule or discomfort." From the article: "This hat -- made from cotten fiber, silver and copper -- will help reduce your brain's exposure to EMF. LessEMF also sells shirts and cell phone covers to accomplish the same thing."
Didn't they know that it's been proven that tinfoil hats simply don't work?
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Do they do one in Burberry?
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
The actual alien signal enhance if the tin foil hat touch your head.
For a funny paper on tin foil hats check out http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/ has some funky tin foil hat fashion in it too!
Isn't it better to use copper-mesh instead of tin foil?
It's aluminum foil people!
Rather than link to gizmodo's blog, manufacturer's link.
$64 for tin foil boxers. now that's an investment!
The IRS is the one organization that you don't want to fuck with. Remember, these are the guys who took down Al Capone.
They are selling something called a 'Schumann resonator'. Schumann resonance is an extremely low frequency (2-20Hz) standing wave pattern observable in the ionosphere. What is amazing about these waves is that they are key to our survival. Much like how oxygen is required to breathe, Schumann resonance is required for life (or at least inasmuch as something like Vitamin D is required). We evolved with these resonances, so we are evolutionarily attuned to them, whether we know it or not.
Modern society bombards us with very high frequency electromagnetic waves that drown out the natural environmental electromagnetic waves that we are evolutionarily accustommed to. Therefore, our health at times will suffer due to a lack of these natural ELF electromagnetic signals.
To counter that, it is possible to buy a Shumann resonator which plugs into a wall socket and broadcasts in the Schumann frequency range. It helps by balancing out the daily hazardous bombardment of modern EM fields with healthy and wholesome natural ELF fields. You can experience better health and more vigor just by having these near you (and turned on!) for several hours each day.
I can believe that someone would be duped by that kind of logical pseudoscience. It all sounds credible to someone prone to neophobia.
According to this article from MIT, aluminum foil hats may actually amplify some signals...notably, amplification at 2.6 Ghz and a 20 db amplification at 1.2 Ghz.
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Covering your cell phone is definitely important. If it were exposed to RF, it could accidentally function.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil_hat
The effectiveness of the tin-foil hat as an electromagnetic shield for stopping radio waves is greatly reduced by the fact that it is not a complete enclosure. Placing an AM radio under a metal bucket without a conductive layer underneath demonstrates the relative ineffectiveness of such a setup. Indeed, because the effect of an ungrounded Faraday cage is to partially reflect the incident radiation, a radio wave that is incident on the inner surface of the hat (i.e., coming from underneath the hat-wearer) would be reflected and partially 'focused' towards the user's brain. While tin-foil hats may have originated in some understanding of the Faraday cage effect, the use of such a hat to attenuate radio waves belongs properly to the realm of pseudoscience.
No it's not. I've seen thousands of postings by Anonymous Coward prior to yours.
tin-foil hat, t-shirt and boxers; ESD shoes, chain-mail cloak /w hood + lightning -> human plasma lamp
I'm a little bit surprised that nobody has linked to this site yet. ;) It's been a fav of mine for many years.
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
An Effective, Low-Cost Solution To Combating Mind-Control
Now I admit that I have only done one year of real physics study and am therefore nowhere near an expert on this, but it seems to me that the computer shields they manufacture could actually have a purpose - TEMPEST shields. You know, keep EMF in rather than blocking it out. Of course, they only make monitor ones, but still, a step in the right direction, no?
The Mythbusters have done a couple of episodes where they construct a faraday cage for testing stuff. I get a lot of radio noise over my computer speakers and have been pondering getting enough brass mesh to cover that entire ROOM. Then I'd just have to figure out how to keep the cell phone from burning a hole in my pocket if I ever walked into the faraday room with it on...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Aw, man, I'm really disappointed! Hats that deflect mind-control rays are a dime a dozen. I thought it was going to be a beanie that deflected aluminum foil! That would be cool--and even potentially useful. :)
Not their fault! They didn't KNOW they were governement operatives.
The governement was influencing the study through RF based mind control. They made them see results that were contrary to reality.
If I can't see the shiny foil, how do I know it works?
How do I know this thing won't insert a tiny cat whisker lead into my scalp, sending my thoughts out and putting their thoughts in?
No thanks. I'll stick to homemade. It makes a nice family craft; I'm thinking of doing it as a Cub Scout activity with my son.
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The new world of superconvenient RFID credit cards and Passport People Identifiers/Dissident Locators really could benefit from a wallet that gives individuals a modicum of control over what information about themselves is released to governments, corporations, etc.
Of course, the better and harder thing to do is to make governments and corporations more transparent and trustworthy, but that's a much harder thing to do.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Or something like it. Put a few metal plates inside of poorly colored case and you've got a miracle Electro Magnetic canceling device!
1/2 wavelength diameter, I think. So the size of the hole is related to the maximum frequency blocked.
You can see this in the attenuation (blockage factor) graph at the LessEMF website. As the frequency gets higher, the attenuation gets less, because the space between conductors becomes a larger fraction of the wavelength. Wavelength goes down as frequency goes up:
L (meters) = 300/F (mhz) So, 10 GHz frequency means 15 mm half-wavelength, or about 1/16 inch.
We actually bought some fabric from these guys and tested it to see if a bag made of the material would block cell phone signals. It worked quite well - phone in the bag could not make or receive calls.
Now we can protect our brains from telepaths while still looking sharp!
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
When the SHINY side is is in, to deflect it has to be on the outside.
Hey! What about my kids?
complain @wiki ,I didn't wrote this.
Are you claiming "Mind Control Rays"
are supernatural (i.e. Non electromagnetic) or Microwave radiation?
Well,As for usual EM radiation it can be used as crude mind control by transmitting it to a special device called TV and making the people watch the screen of device.
imagine that,turns out most people never suspected it and never stop watching merely switching the channels at which Mind Control Radiation (tm) is transmitted.
The Cartoon Network is particuraly effective at destroying brain cells,literally training the next generation of drooling zombies for evil mind control overlords.
I now must flee before the evil mind control overlords read this thread.