Tinfoil Hats HELP The Government
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It has been decided to promote this to the front page and declare it to be an open thread. Also, please note that Karl Rove is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
From Popular Science, kids at MIT determined that the radio frequency range 1.2-2.6GHz (reserved for the federal government) is enhanced by actual tinfoil hats by about 20-30%, whereas in other frequencies it is reduced.
Clearly (to paraphrase one of the students), the government has propogated this lie that tinfoil hats block brain control rays. Maybe now more people should recommend tinfoil hats.
that I have been privileged to grace the front page of Red State. Hooray!
I saw this article and I almost laughed. It just seems WAY too ironic. Let's force them to wear tinfoil hats. They'll feel safer and unknown to them, we can turn them into a collective flock of sheep. Bah-ram-ewe.
Have we ascertained that MIT is not overrun with those awful Marxist academics? Also, should it matter if the shiny side is in or out?
Is Reynolds Wrap preferred, or will generic tinfoil do?
Somebody at MIT needs to do some "research" into spectrum allocation - 1.2 - 2.6 gHz is hardly "reserved for the Federal Government". (A couple ham bands, WiFi, terrestrial point-to-point, etc..)
Maybe they should stop taking our cannons and learn some science.
from the article:
"The students first recorded a baseline transmission from a radio-frequency spectrum analyzer, a device that emits radio waves of various frequencies, to its receiver antenna, located on four test subjects' bare noggins."
A spectrum analyzer doesn't emit anything. As the name suggests, it analyzes.
Also from the article:
"But at 1.2 and 2.6 GHz", so not the whole range, just those discrete frequencies. The 1.2GHz falls in Aeronautical Radionavigation, which is a government/non-government shared region. 2.6GHz is used by satellites, but is exclusively non-governmental.
This can't possibly be a PhD level project. Definately not PhD level reporting.
"It requires no stretch of the imagination to conclude that the current helmet craze is likely to have been propagated by the Government, possibly with the involvement of the FCC," the students sagely declared. Sagely? Good one!
Is aluminum okay? That's all I have myself.
always has!