Tin foil hats are/aren't dangerous
posted Nov 11th 2005 8:00AM
Well, we've got some bad bad news for the paranoid (isn't it always?): that snazzy collection of
tin foil hats you keep for those rare events
that draw you from the relative safety of your bunker in Idaho and into the dangerous outdoors, they aren't doing much
good protecting you from the deathly
radiation that permeates the air. In fact, according to some wiz kid at MIT with a $250,000 network analyzer, that
tin cap of yours actually tends to amplify certain frequencies that are reserved by the FCC for government use only,
meaning their mind control rays have the most effect on the very people who go to the furthest trouble to protect
themselves from such trickery. Oh what a world. The researcher theorizes that the government started this whole helmet
craze in the first place, but we're betting this kid knows where his scholarship money came from, and was commissioned
for this phony report to get your guard down. Who you gonna believe?
[Via Slashdot]
Even the punch line was via slashdot!
I see what you're trying to do? You're trying to get me to take my tinf... err... anti-mind-control device so you can get in there and fiddle with the digits. I don't think so, I'm to much of a PAH to go for that one.
I always thought they kept the aliens and satellites from reading your mind.
If that wiz kid works for the goverment... is he lying or telling the truth?
Do mind control rays make us happy, sad or angry? Does it work with harmonics?
That was the most elaborate sarcastic comment I've ever read at Engadget. Bravo.
Lead foil, here I come!
Lovely... Now I have to cover my house in something else...
Every EE knows that aluminum hats work only if grounded to an electrode driven into the nearest soil.
If the hat actually went all the way around the head (and through the neck), it would work due to Gauss' Law.
Reknowned AFDB authority Lyle Zapato has debunked this research over at http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200511112730.afdb_effectiveness