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Sci-Art weirdo Rick demonstrates, by way of a cap covered in tinfoil, that the kitchen staple can actually block electromagnetic pulses. With a device called a beta-blocker radio, the Tesla-obsessed Canadian shows how a wireless modem pumps out electromagnetic pulses when turned on. Those pulses are clearly audible as an almost woodpecker-like thumping when the radio is placed close to the modem. But, when Rick puts his radio-cum-detector in the foil hat, the pulses practically disappear. It seems that the sheet of tinfoil acts as a sort of Faraday Cage, a barrier (usually a fine mesh of conductive metal) that blocks external sources of electromagnetic radiation.
Of course, this shouldn't come as a complete surprise. So called "booster bags," essentially shopping bags lined with aluminum foil, have been used for years to help shoplifters sneak items past security detectors in stores. But, just because the whole tinfoil hat thing seems to have some basis in sound scientific theory, don't expect us to stop mocking it anytime soon. [From: YouTube, via: Make]
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Subscribe to commentsSimzeeMay 13th 2010 3:47PM
Interesting. Believe it or not. Perhaps we are stepping into...............the Twilight Zone.
brdbrns4May 13th 2010 4:28PM
I wear tin foil underwear in case aliens try to probe me in my sleep.
WendyMay 13th 2010 4:39PM
"Signs" is all I could picture when I read the article.
ico-manMay 13th 2010 4:45PM
unless your wearing that hat on your butt it ain't protecting from no probes sir.
Thomas HoustonMay 13th 2010 4:54PM
@brdbrns4, probably won't keep you safe.
Cappy Lills KidMay 13th 2010 5:17PM
We the hats to prevent aliens from sucking out your brains
KittieMay 13th 2010 6:25PM
First of all folks....it's not TIN foil...it's ALUMINUM foil...I can't remeber anyone using TINfoil in my lifetime and I'm OLD...lol I think it was a preWWII item.
BarbaraAug 9th 2010 5:31PM
Remember when high school boys put aluminum foil in their hub caps, to foil police radar guns?
James BealMay 13th 2010 7:00PM
Any conductive material reflects microwave which is basically radar. The tinfoil hat works fine for preventing wi-fi and cell phone microwave radiation from entering the head. The electrically hypersensitive (EHS) person (about five to eight percent of the population, and mostly women) can buy complete garments, hats and conductive shoes so they can live in, or visit, friends and town. Homes, especially bedrooms, can be lined with metal fly screen, aluminum foil, conductive paint, magnesium oxide (MgO) panels, or expanded metal sheet (stucco backing)....windows should have metal casements and be low-E type with the conductive transparent UV barrier film. Wi-Fi and wireless phone and cell phones in the home can result in long-term healthy stress, affecting sleep and aggravating the immune system.....the sleep hormone melatonin is especially affected...known for over 15 years. Europe, Sweden, Russia, Israel, Canada have known about long-term electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure problems since at least 1995....I've known since 1965 about problems with high power line proximity. For backup info check web sites , and
Jim Beal, www.emfinterface.com
jayMay 13th 2010 7:33PM
Tin foil, aluminum foil, who cares what it is made out of, as long as it keeps the CIA from reading my dreams while I am sleeping. :-)
ConorMay 13th 2010 8:19PM
Aluminium foil actually aplifies the bands operated by the government.
Source: MIT experiements.
KathyMay 13th 2010 8:10PM
As long as I could remember I could tell if anything was on in the house, whether sound was off or what...and would tell someone...I also have increasingly become sicker and sicker under florescent lights until now I can only be under them less than 5 minutes before I get a severe headache. I have chiari malformation which is compression of the cerebellum..mention this because I found a few others of us with this issue..wonder "James" if this is also an issue. I have had increasing immune issues.
Jerome SmithMay 13th 2010 10:40PM
reminds me of the woman in Jenkintowsn PA,who would go into the local drugstore with a newspaper over her head,everytime without fail.She claimed the
flourescent lights affected her brain,Locals took it as a daily occurance and paid her no mind.