On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study (Humor)

[cdev]

http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/


"Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals. Using a $250,000 network analyser, we find that although on average all helmets attenuate invasive radio frequencies in either directions (either emanating from an outside source, or emanating from the cranium of the subject), certain frequencies are in fact greatly amplified. These amplified frequencies coincide with radio bands reserved for government use according to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government's invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason."



Thoughts, anybody?

[Gyro]

Something that's always puzzled me - why Aluminium foil? Surely they should be using Copper foil (preferably Silver plated) for best effectiveness. I mean, while you're going to the trouble.... 

[boffin]

And of course, there's been a kickstarter for that...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shieldapparel/shield-the-world-s-first-signal-proof-headwear

[Gyro]

Not just heads anymore from the look of it. 


Oh, just one more thing in favor of Copper - both Copper and Silver are antibacterial, thus solving another potential source of paranoia at a stroke!

[floobydust]

Found 3M Velostat can be used to make a thought screen and stop aliens from abducting humans.
Seems more comfortable than aluminum.

[DaJMasta]

I don't have the proper background and understanding to do it myself, but I had always hoped to see a tin foil helmet debunking video.  I mean, the helmet doesn't seal and reflections are coming from everywhere, so would it even make an appreciable difference to a signal getting into the head wearing it?  Then it's a very thin sheet, so at what frequency does it really become effective?  Is that a frequency that could actually interact with neurons in any capacity (except for maybe cooking them at very high power)?  And finally, with a quarter inch of bone and skin around your brain already.... isn't it pretty well shielded?  What narrow band could a tinfoil hat even keep out?


It's a bit cross-discipline and a fair bit of work to debunk nonsense, but I imagine it would be a fascinating pointless tangent to investigate 

[ICR9000]

I think this song sums it all up lol 

[AndyC_772]

Surely someone must have realised that wearing a parabolic dish on your head, with a focal point in the middle of your brain, was unlikely to *prevent* radio signals being beamed in and out of it?

[Neomys Sapiens]

I REALLY encountered such a guy once. I told him that he had to keep it grounded all the time. My suggestion was to build something akin to a wooden childrens toy dog from copper and trail it with 10mm² wire from his foil hat.
 

[SKHILLBILLYSlures]

 Google Q wave and proceed to die laughing

[SL4P]

Mine has a fuzzy lining for comfort (natural fibre, not synthetic).
Will that affect (attenuate) the shielding functionality, or raise the 'potential' for static interference?

P.S. The cat likes it when I leave the helmet laying around upside-down.

[cgroen]

I wonder what a tin-foil hat for a audiophool would be made of (and cost) 

[SL4P]

I wonder what a tin-foil hat for a audiophool would be made of (and cost) 

That would have to be two layers of metallized plastic with some Patent Pending (P) fluid* between the layers.

Add an optional $200 earthing strap for non-mobile installation.

* coloured deionized water

[mikerj]

Google Q wave and proceed to die laughing

I got dozens of references to ECG and myocardial infarction.  Does the laughing cause heart attacks?

[JohnG]

My helmet uses pure silver for blocking electric field probes, a layer of mu-metal for magnetic field blocking, a ferrite-polymer composite layer, and an outer layer of cloaking meta-material so they can't tell that I have all the other layers and become suspicious.

John (not my real name)

[cdev]

Google "Panawave" or "Pana-wave laboratory", or

(Site SW will not let me paste in Japanese name.. find it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pana_Wave )

[SL4P]

This will get you all thinking...
http://www.popsci.com.au/science/medicine/ultrasound-data-transmission-through-meat-is-fast-enough-to-watch-hd-movies,418211

[cdev]

This gentleman is fighting the good fight.

https://www.venganza.org/2017/06/arizona-id/

[AndyC_772]

I believe that gentleman is a Pastafarian, and associating him with the tinfoil hat brigade is offensive to his religion.

Not kidding!

[SKHILLBILLYSlures]

Just click the link and begin to die laughing

http://www.stopabductions.com