Tin Foil hats don't offer protection!!

Blackjack

from Metro Cafe - providing conclusive proof that a Tin foil hat does more harm than good

MEL GIBSON HAS a lot to answer for. The star of the Hollywood movie Signs appears to have got a few too many people thinking.
In the 2002 sci-fi blockbuster, Gibson and his family don tin-foil hats to stop aliens controlling their minds.

Now a group of scientists claim to have uncovered a US government plot to do the same thing (please, bear with us).

They believe people's minds are 'invaded' by special radio signals.

But wait, it gets better.

The only way to block the messages is to wear 'protective' tin-foil hats.

Experts from the highly respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology have put £144,000 of equipment to use trying to disprove the theory.

They put an antenna on the head of a subject and emitted radio signals at different frequencies with and without the 'protective' hat.

The report, On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study, found most frequencies were reduced by the 'helmet' but certain frequencies were amplified.

Freakily, the frequencies amplified coincided with radio bands reserved for US government use. Conspiracy theory, anyone?

biko

Doesn't matter. I'm keeping mine anyway

Rhyme

They're only trying to get us to take ours off... FOOLS!

Spunog UIE

thats all THEY want you to think, eh, think about it.

Sarsfield

Saw a young woman walk through the Jervis Centre 2 weeks ago wearing a tinfoil hat. I kid you not! Initially we thought she was out for a walk in the middle of getting her hair done, but no, it was a simple tinfoil hat. A sort of smurfhead-shaped thing :eek:

keevita

i do science fiction in college, and sometimes me and my classmates have a night where we get corny sci-fi films from the 60s and 70s and watch them while drinking wine and wearing imaginative tin foil hats. hours of amusement...thank you mel gibson...

petes

keevita wrote:

i do science fiction in college, and sometimes me and my classmates have a night where we get corny sci-fi films from the 60s and 70s and watch them while drinking wine and wearing imaginative tin foil hats. hours of amusement...thank you mel gibson...

Sounds great.

Goodshape

Tin Foil hats work alright, Aluminium Foil hats do not. There's a difference in the two and actual Tin Foil is hard to get these days.


(or so I've read)

Blackjack

Goodshape wrote:

Tin Foil hats work alright, Aluminium Foil hats do not. There's a difference in the two and actual Tin Foil is hard to get these days.


(or so I've read)

Dammit. Do you need me to change the thread title to reflect more accurately the situation?.

keevita

whats the difference between tin and aluminium foil? do different brands use different metal? about my earlier post, i would like to classify that i am a MASSIVE nerd. and proud of it!

Umiq88

TIN foil consists of TIN
ALLUMINUM foil consists of yes you guessed it ALLUMINIUM

they're just differnet metals tin-foil as just become a brand name now and alluminium has got cheaper and more readily available i guess so its made out of that

keevita

psittacosis wrote:

TIN foil consists of TIN
ALLUMINUM foil consists of yes you guessed it ALLUMINIUM

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oh. oh yes, yes, NOW its clear. i meant whether they were used for different things...

your second answer more than adequatly answers my question. thank you. im off to go get a life now :rolleyes:

bounty_hunter

Of course it's a conspiracy. They're trying to deprive us of our hats!