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Can tinfoil hats actually prevent the government from reading your thoughts?
Popular Science Magazine, March 2006, page 80-82
| March, 2006
| Amanda MacMillan
Posted on 02/13/2006 3:57:34 PM PST by baldeagle390
Inspired by fringe beliefs that invasive radio signals can probe a citizens' thoughts and that wearing foil on your head may fend them off, an experiment by four Ph.D candidates found that certain frequencies-owned by the Feds naturally-are actually enhanced by such "protection."
Overall, the foil effectively weakend radio waves by up to 10 decibels over most of the frequency spectrum (there were no significant differences among helmet shapes). But at 1.2 and 2.6 GHz-which fall within the band reserved for government satellites, GPS systems and mobile-phone corporations-passage through the foil amplified these waves by 20-30 decibels.
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; UFO's
KEYWORDS: darkshearesfault; moonbats; tinfoilhats
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To: baldeagle390
Well, I guess that explains the voices in my head afterall...
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posted on
02/13/2006 3:59:10 PM PST
by
JOAT
To: baldeagle390
Strangely, my sense of direction has improved markedly.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:01:01 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Aim low! They got knees!)
To: baldeagle390
I think you would get the best possible protection if you wore a copper mesh bodysuit.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:01:10 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: baldeagle390
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:01:45 PM PST
by
NYTexan
(Where is MY global warming?)
To: baldeagle390; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Lazamataz; Darksheare; pissant; Dashing Dasher; najida; ...
TIN FOIL HAT.....
To: cripplecreek
I think you would get the best possible protection if you wore a copper mesh bodysuit.
Nah, the best possible protection would be the tinfoil room...
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:05:33 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Brokeback Mountain: "for once, the good guys get it in the end." -SNL)
To: baldeagle390
That does it...
From now on, I'm wearing my tinfoil inside out. That way the amplification effect will be reversed.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:05:33 PM PST
by
EternalHope
(Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
To: baldeagle390
Yes. I wear my tinfoil hat all the time and the government can't read my thoughts.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:06:13 PM PST
by
Supernatural
(All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
I'm building a Faraday Cage with an aluminum foil wall sandwiched between two layers of copper mesh.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:06:41 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Aim low! They got knees!)
To: baldeagle390
Here's your hat!
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:07:58 PM PST
by
Dashing Dasher
(John McCain sings the hits..... Now, that's funny right there.)
To: baldeagle390
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:08:23 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG-ret)
To: baldeagle390; All
But what about the MIT tests showing that tinfoil hats actually amplify the effects!
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:09:06 PM PST
by
TMSuchman
(2nd Generation U.S. MARINE, 3rd Generation American & PROUD OF IT!)
To: Darksheare
To: baldeagle390
Only if the shiny side is on the outside.
To: EternalHope
Will you be able to read our minds then? Scary.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:09:33 PM PST
by
Chanticleer
(May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
To: baldeagle390
Everyone knows the radio waves are to CONTROL your thoughts (and actions), not read them. Sheesh.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:11:09 PM PST
by
cf_river_rat
(Just another defender of the faith)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Yes, harnessing the power, and mutating into human form..
Or just finding anew and unique way of roasting myself.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:11:10 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Aim low! They got knees!)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:11:46 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(MKC USCG-ret)
To: Dashing Dasher
I've heard that carbon fiber holds much promise. I just can't seem to get that fishtank stuff to stick to my head.
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posted on
02/13/2006 4:14:05 PM PST
by
baldeagle390
("I've sent people to the gas chamber younger than you. I didn't want to...I felt I owed it to them.")
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