This is from the second most read English newspaper in the world, right behind the Wallstreet Journal.
So aluminum foil can keep wifi inside your home, but it can't keep it outside your head 😏
Posted by DarkSaturnPrince
This is from the second most read English newspaper in the world, right behind the Wallstreet Journal.
So aluminum foil can keep wifi inside your home, but it can't keep it outside your head 😏
Posted by DarkSaturnPrince
6 Comments
Already had a dream that post 2040 or so it’ll turn out that tin foil hats weren’t far from the truth, but instead it’s a different reflective metal that’s actually what would be reasonable. But even then when it was adopted it was through normal hats and crap rather than a conspiracy top.
Imagine if in a few years we have to wear tinfoil hats to stop the neurolink folk from reading our minds
Doesn’t aluminum or tinfoil amplify signals though? Kind of why people use to wrap their TV antennas with it.
So if your concern is stuff getting into your brain, putting foil there might not be the best idea.
I’m pretty sure it’s been known for a long time that this method can block out signals, but people who wear “tinfoil hats” typically do it because they believe the signals are in some way harmful to them, which I think there’s less evidence of. There are DEWs that can beam various things into you, but I don’t think they point that stuff at large amounts of people. Just the problematic ones.
This was known since the invention of wifi since it’s just radio waves that behave just like other radio waves. Used to be a much more common tip decades ago when weak ass routers were more common and you wanted to concentrate the signal.
As far as your head it will reflect radio waves on the outside, and inside like when boosting wifi signal. Any radio waves that aren’t above your head will be reflected into your head multiple times, those radio waves will hit you at least twice and keep reflecting until your brain fully absorbed them or they get reflected out.
Not exactly, making a dish out of it can reflect signals towards the focal point of the dish’s curve, but it doesn’t *amplify* it. A tinfoil hat would need to have the signal derecrky below it, from the direction of the wearer’s feet, for it to work that way.
Also if we’re entertaining the idea of a real tinfoil hat, maybe forming it with uneven polygonal surfaces and wrinkles and ripples tilted in all directions could mitigate that, so that signals would be reflected in all directions instead of towards a central point.
Ooh or maybe a big birdcage helmet that’s actually a faraday cage.
Oooh or a balloon like those big inflatable hamster wheel bubbles that people roll down hills in, except lined with metal mesh frame, also as a faraday cage. And we can just all walk around in our bubbles.