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Post by auntym on Oct 3, 2012 11:55:49 GMT -6
boingboing.net/2012/10/01/tinfoil-hats-actually-amplify.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+C2C-InTheNews+%28Feed+-+Coast+to+Coast+-+In+the+News%29 Tinfoil hats actually amplify mind-control beams[/color] By Cory Doctorow Monday, Oct 1 A group of MIT students decided to test the performance of different tinfoil beanies to see how various designs (the "classical," "fez" and "centurion") interacted with commonly used industrial radio applications. They found that all three designs actually amplified these mind control rays radio waves, suggesting that the tinfoil hat meme might be a false-flag operation engineered to trick the wily and suspicious into making it easier to beam messages into their skulls. 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. ... We evaluated the performance of three different helmet designs, commonly referred to as the Classical, the Fez, and the Centurion. These designs are portrayed in Figure 1. The helmets were made of Reynolds aluminium foil. As per best practices, all three designs were constructed with the double layering technique described elsewhere [2]. A radio-frequency test signal sweeping the ranges from 10 Khz to 3 Ghz was generated using an omnidirectional antenna attached to the Agilent 8714ET's signal generator. CONTINUE READING: boingboing.net/2012/10/01/tinfoil-hats-actually-amplify.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+C2C-InTheNews+%28Feed+-+Coast+to+Coast+-+In+the+News%29
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Post by auntym on Oct 3, 2012 12:03:27 GMT -6
berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study1: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, MIT. 2: Media Laboratory, MIT. Ali Rahimi1, Ben Recht 2, Jason Taylor 2, Noah Vawter 2 17 Feb 2005 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. IntroductionIt has long been suspected that the government has been using satellites to read and control the minds of certain citizens. The use of aluminum helmets has been a common guerrilla tactic against the government's invasive tactics [1]. Surprisingly, these helmets can in fact help the government spy on citizens by amplifying certain key frequency ranges reserved for government use. In addition, none of the three helmets we analyzed provided significant attenuation to most frequency bands. We describe our experimental setup, report our results, and conclude with a few design guidelines for constructing more effective helmets. CONTINUE READING: berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet/
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Post by skywalker on Oct 3, 2012 19:30:19 GMT -6
Anybody who is gullible enough to actually wear a tin-foil hat is not the type of person whom the government would need any extra help in controlling.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2012 20:17:59 GMT -6
~shakes my head~ Is it any wonder...aliens don't just land and strike up a conversation?
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Post by plutronus on Oct 3, 2012 22:46:44 GMT -6
SkyWalker says: 'Anybody who is gullible enough to actually wear a tin-foil hat is not the type of person whom the government would need any extra help in controlling. ' [/size][/quote] Hello Sky,
I in essence agree, however, its a tricky position to take, 'cause I'm one of those people. :-) I just awakened one day knowing that I needed to shield my head, (no one told me about it), so I fashioned a metal-foil head covering...a hat. It helped a bit to reduce the pressure I was feeling inside my head. Later I began to use anti-static charcoal bags which I fashioned into 'Beetle-Bailey' style Army private's hats. I have photos. When I saw 'Signs' (Bruce Willis) and saw the actors wearing those pointed metal-foil hats, I laughed out-loud, in fact I was the only one in the audience laughing. It just....well...it just really hit home. Heh heh.
As for the MIT'ers, they were first year electrical engineering students which means that they were engineering newbies. I suspect they barely knew how to switch-on the gear...could barely use that $250k Dollar Agilent. And incidentally, a 'network analyzer' is the wrong tool to use for an RF study of this type. While making their pointless assertions, they forgot to reveal their test setup configurations, the RF plumbing, RF signal budgets, antenna type, antenna positioning, levels, transmitter dBw....all the stuff that's important to know to verify what they claimed.
Plus, who says the metal-foil shielding is for EMF? Did they just PRESUME that point and then test for it? Where did they get the idea that ET Mind-Control is high-frequency RF based?
Anyone with a brain knows that RF can't be used at any distance, it spreads, much worse than a flashlight beam and y'all know how much light there is at a hundred feet or so, let alone have enough power for something as a complex as Mind-Control function suggests. And who says RF can be used to control the Mind? In anycase the HIGH POWER transmitter would have to be across the street or next-door to impart enough energy to affect the neurology of a brain let alone control it and it would disrupt everything electronic in the beam path inside the power-range envelope, so it wouldn't be too stealthy either.
Back to 'Tin-foil' or more specifically Aluminum-Foil (tin-foil is a better electrical conductor, but hasn't been publicly available for nearly 60 years since the advent of Aluminum-foil), its obvious to any engineer that metal-foil would likely not provide any significant signal attenuation, if there was a powerful enough signal present to warrant attenuation. And its not amplification either, as there is nothing active, so if the LOW-POWER signal is being increased, its due to the shape of the foil, its acting like a concentrator lens, or similar to the EMF flux concentration of a parabolic-reflector. Of all the folks I've seen, including myself, that have worn shielding hats, not one has been a fez shape, so the MIT students missed on that point also. Its just random stuff. And then to put a nice creamy topping on it, there's no ground-plane, irregardless of geometry, 'fez' or otherwise.
In summary, its just techno-babble. Its a college joke, hah hah hah, and it is funny too. Those katz are pulling folks legs. :-)
Mind-Control if it exists isn't EMF based too many physics problems, however, I'd look in the direction of (Cleve Backster's definition of) psionics.
plutronusps, I wrote those guys the first time I learned of their assertions, (~2007?) and never received a reply to any of my points.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 3, 2012 23:00:27 GMT -6
I doubt that they even understood any of the points that you made. You are probably way out of their league.
You raised a good question about why they would be testing for radio waves. I've never heard anybody suggest that either aliens or the government would be using RF to try to control people. Perhaps they just assumed that since they probably don't know much about the abduction phenomenon or about government conspiracies.
BTW I laughed at that part of the Signs movie also. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2012 23:13:49 GMT -6
But you're not protecting you are receiving...like an antenna..if anything. For years I used foil as a TV antenna because the reception was so much better. Frankly I'm not willing to do anything that might make it easier for anyone to get a grip on my wee brain and it will be one cold day in the nether world when I don one of those thingies If you woke up and thought you needed one..it may have been because someone planted that thought to make it easier to contact you. That's how I'd color that one
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Post by plutronus on Oct 4, 2012 4:14:31 GMT -6
But you're not protecting you are receiving...like an antenna..if anything.
For years I used foil as a TV antenna because the reception was so much better.
Frankly I'm not willing to do anything that might make it easier for anyone to get a grip on my wee brain...
...and it will be one cold day in the nether world when I don one of those thingies
If you woke up and thought you needed one..it may have been because someone planted that thought to make it easier to contact you. That's how I'd color that one Hi,
I hear what you say, and I'm not just arguing for argument's sake or because its a technical subject that I understand very well. Like many here, I want to know what's happening to us. I work to ferret out the real from the illusory, where I can. Sometimes I'm successful, and at other times I fail miserably.
The brain is not an EM receiver in any construance of the idea. It is a bio-chemical machine. It does not interface electrically well either. It is for this reason that doctors put gooey conductive-paste connector-patches on our bodies when they measure our heart and brain waves using electronic graphing equipment. The sticky gooey stuff provides good electrical contact with the skin. But don't be confused by this, the medical instruments are MEASURING the signals in the body using highly sensitive amplifiers. The organ of the brain is highly insulated inside the head. It is inside a thick bone box 'skull', which is wrapped in skin, and covered with hair. It is highly electrically isolated and insulated too. It is not a sensitive EM receiver.
Thin metal-foil is not is not used for manufacturing RF antennas by any manufacturer for any purpose. Foil is too soft, too easy to inadvertently change its shape, and its RF electrical characteristics don't work well for antennas either. Flat metal-foil could be used as a ground plane for an antenna or as a reflector for a feed horn, but not as the actual antenna receiving element itself, because it is simply the wrong shape. For radio waves, or rather EM wave energy to be conducted out of space, must be tuned to resonate with a round conductor which is 'shaped' to the wavelength of the energy-wave, else the energy can't be induced to be conducted. Shaping and placing metal-foil on the head doesn't create an electrical receiver, or an antenna, as the parts simply don't provide the necessary things required to receive signals and then the brain is highly insulated. The two things do not make a functional combination.
But you say, 'my TV worked better with the foil.' And due to this personal experience, its easy to believe that a metal-foil hat could act as a brain receiving antenna. Bio-chemical brains and electronic TV receivers are very different machines, what works with one is no guarantee to work with the other or vice versa. And that is true here.
However, and frankly, I don't know, as I have stated before regarding this matter on other boards on the InterNet over the years, I don't know what the metal-foil hats provided in terms of 'shielding'. How it works is not too obvious, I'm an electronics engineer and I have much experience working with high-frequencies and microwaves. I've done a fair amount of introspection into this matter. What ever it shielded?, it doesn't seem to be electrical or EM in nature in my opinion. But it worked. When I wore the hats, the invasive symptoms diminished. Now maybe I was being manipulated into believing something inaccurate, but what would it be? When I put the hats on, I felt better. That's how we fix things in the body, if it hurts we know we have a problem. We do things to reduce the hurt.
Regarding somebody or something implanting an idea into me psychically? Maybe? I won't rule it out. However, throughout the years, my experience has been that my inner-self generally takes care of me, if only I would always listen. However, when folks put their focus on me, I know it, and if I choose to look back, I know who it is. Its just a 'knowingness' that I get. The hat matter is not what folks might suspect.
In summary, we need to understand these things, but not be misguided through guessing or subjective reasoning, but that's also a start. If folks don't put things out there, many important clues could be overlooked. There is without a doubt, in my opinion, something happening, but we need to be careful about how we acquire our knowledge however ludicrous it may appear.
Sincerely,
plutronus
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2012 9:47:42 GMT -6
I have to disagree with you on at least one level..the brain IS or can be a receiver..I know..I receive. It's also effected for different people differently when the sun is tossing off it's CME's. The suicide rate goes up so does erratic behavior and my friend who works with the mentally disabled..tells me they are much more prone to episodes then. Medical science tells us there is no basis for this but then..they say bumble bees technically can't fly. Sometimes when it comes to electrical impulses..we are in the stone age..and brilliant as we may believe ourselves to be...we know very little in many areas and while we know our physical laws...there may be others we just aren't quite ready to 'see' yet. I think that we are all equals when it comes to certain studies.
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Post by spotless38 on Oct 4, 2012 10:52:50 GMT -6
Years ago I was a mod on the old Mufon forum . We were discussing the subject of using tin foil hats . There was a young nieve lady on there named Lois ( LOL ) or was it shamara ? . I posted that I had a bunch of tin foil hats for sale and they were going fast . Laughing while posting this I didn't think any-one would bite on this . Well she did. hook line and sinker I got a pm from her . Name address and phone number . and how much ? There is more to the story on her side Lois I still love ya and I hope we are best of friends yet . Ron ps . I had to tell this story .
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Post by skywalker on Oct 4, 2012 11:21:35 GMT -6
I used to know some people who would put aluminum foil in the hubcaps of their cars because they thought it would deflect police radar. I knew some people who got a lot of speeding tickets too.
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Post by auntym on Oct 4, 2012 11:45:48 GMT -6
Years ago I was a mod on the old Mufon forum . We were discussing the subject of using tin foil hats . There was a young nieve lady on there named Lois ( LOL ) or was it shamara ? . I posted that I had a bunch of tin foil hats for sale and they were going fast . Laughing while posting this I didn't think any-one would bite on this . Well she did. hook line and sinker I got a pm from her . Name address and phone number . and how much ? There is more to the story on her side Lois I still love ya and I hope we are best of friends yet . Ron ps . I had to tell this story . ;D ... i remember this... we love ya lois... ;D
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Post by lois on Oct 4, 2012 16:40:37 GMT -6
Ron, I was going to post this last night and told myself they have heard this many times. ;D ;D ;D I never believed they worked . I just wanted to wear one to bed to tease my husband. They sold them on the Net so why not Ron. ;D He answered my pm with.. Shamira we just got a new shipment in. they are 35.00 a piece. He also said For you sweetie they are free. ;D ;D So I gave him my address. ;D ;D . I don't know if I gave him my phone number that day but he has always had it. Later on after a few days nothing came. ;D ;D He sent another pm . I was pulling your leg. ;D ;D I was not mad, I just wanted a darn hat... You would have to know how my husband has treated this whole ufo mess with me as some big joke. I guess I could make my own. Another thing that happen was Iseen1 put a photo of sky on at his computer wearing a tin hat. I really thought it was him but not sure. Everyone was laughing at this photo. ;D sky came one everyday and stated this is not me!!! but we just keep making remarks. He sent me a pm and said shamira this is not me. It is one of Iseen1's boyfriends. ;D ;D He finally got me to believe him. Those who do not know Iseen1 she was later Harmony on this forum. I sure miss her post. . If you read this harmony we all miss you
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Post by lois on Oct 4, 2012 16:56:15 GMT -6
Here is harmony's last post. May.. gee it has been while. I know she is busy but I also know she has not forgotten us. . May 4, 2012, 8:07pm, jcurio wrote: Hi Sky Speaking of reflections of the current day or whatever. I'm having some problems repeating myself during the day, literally. Instead of "moving on" with the realization that whoever I'm talking to has heard me and is just not reacting right then, I repeat myself. This is so unlike me. To others it must look like I am insecure, but it almost feels like a compulsion. So what I am saying here is I am experiencing MY DREAM(s) affecting my daily life, instead of the other way around. added today: My understanding of my dreams affecting my awake time is that I'm not listening to my dreams. So now I'm thinking that no one else is listening to me either. I hope that clarifies what I am trying to say. I have also been experiencing this lately. My dreams are affecting my daily life especially when I'm around the people of whom I have dreamt about. I'm glad to see you made it here, J. I have missed your humor. I also miss Mr. J. Ruff. I wonder where he is now? Anybody heard? harmony (Iseen1)
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Post by skywalker on Oct 4, 2012 21:33:58 GMT -6
I in essence agree, however, its a tricky position to take, 'cause I'm one of those people. :-) I just awakened one day knowing that I needed to shield my head, (no one told me about it), so I fashioned a metal-foil head covering...a hat. It helped a bit to reduce the pressure I was feeling inside my head. Later I began to use anti-static charcoal bags which I fashioned into 'Beetle-Bailey' style Army private's hats. I have photos. When I saw 'Signs' (Bruce Willis) and saw the actors wearing those pointed metal-foil hats, I laughed out-loud, in fact I was the only one in the audience laughing. It just....well...it just really hit home. Heh heh. Hi, plutronus. I've been thinking about this and an idea just popped into my head. You said that you woke up one day and knew that you needed to shield your head and that it somehow redused the pressure you were feeling. I think I remember you writing about it before where you said yopu felt like you were having a psi attack (I think that's correct ). What if the reason the aluminum foil worked for you was because it gave you a psychological boost? By that I don't necessarily mean that you were imagining the whole thing, but what if wearing the foil changed your thought processes just enough, possibly by increasing your confidence level perhaps, that it made you less susceptable to the attack? Maybe it somehow changed the frequencies of your brainwaves just enough to allow you to resist. Kind of like you were able to tune it out whereas you couldn't before.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2012 22:01:11 GMT -6
It seems were constantly being bombarded all the time by various frequencies from different wavelengths across the spectrum. From land, air, and space. Whether manmade, or cosmic, it's always around. I'm thinking that there was something being blocked when he put this hat on, whatever it was, I believe is highly possible. Topographical maps are done quite a bit also by satellite. There's no telling what kind of ground and ocean penetrating frequencies are being emitted.
Anything's possible. And then there are the 'other's' to think about. When the 'visit' happened I think they were wanting some info about a kid I knew who had to wear a helmet like device because of a car wreck he was in. That was the last memory that they took from me. I wonder,,,,,
Skywalker, what you said makes sense also. Anythings possible.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2012 9:21:32 GMT -6
The question I'd have too...would be..did you feel the need for the hat before or after the encounter that disturbed you so?
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