|
Author
|
Topic: On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets:
|
|
|
Xanthine
Solid Nitrozanium SuperFan!
Member # 736
Member Rated:
|
posted August 10, 2009 20:29
I thought I was going to break something laughing. OMG. I can't believe someone actually did the experiment. Bonus points for the interpretation of the results!
--------------------
And it's one, two, three / On the wrong side of the lee / What were you meant for? / What were you meant for?
- The Decemberists
Posts: 7670 | From: the lab | Registered: Mar 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Famous Druid
Gold Hearted SuperFan!
Member # 1769
Member Rated:
|
posted August 10, 2009 20:35
quote:
Originally posted by Snaggy:
OMG. MIT researchers conclude that tin foil hats amplify the government's ability to read your mind.
That's what THEY want you to think. ![[crazy]](graemlins/crazy.gif)
--------------------
If you watch 'The History Of NASA' backwards, it's about a space agency that has no manned spaceflight capability, then does low-orbit flights, then lands on the Moon.
Posts: 10668 | From: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ashitaka
SuperFan!
Member # 4924
Member Rated:
|
posted August 11, 2009 00:24
The paper is a bit thin, not exaclty up to peer review publication standards. Though if they had taken the time to do that , it would have brought a whole new level of amusement to this "joke".
ma fav. quote
quote:
We hope this report will encourage the paranoid community to develop improved helmet designs to avoid falling prey to these shortcomings.
--------------------
"If they're not gonna make a distinction between Muslims and violent extremists, then why should I take the time to distinguish between decent, fearful white people and racists?"
-Assif Mandvi
Posts: 3089 | From: Switzerland | Registered: Feb 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Aditu
SuperBlabberMouth!
Member # 2340
Member Rated:
|
posted August 12, 2009 15:21
Must admit to wearing a tinfoil hat at Dragon Con Church of the SubGenius meeting. LOL
Posts: 1355 | From: Osten Ard | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Grummash
Gold Hearted SuperFan!
Member # 4289
|
posted August 13, 2009 12:35
There seems to be some debate about whether a tinfoil hat keeps the government out of your brain, or opens the door and welcomes them in.
The solution is obvious.
We must take our cue from that nice Mr Schrödinger - by wearing a tinfoil hat and not wearing a tinfoil hat at the same time!
That'll confuse them...
--------------------
...and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes...
Posts: 2335 | From: Lancashire,UK | Registered: Aug 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
ewomack
Highlie
Member # 3225
Member Rated:
|
posted August 13, 2009 16:51
Wow... I should not have listened to the guy who convinced me to have a tinfoil hat permanently stapled to my head... wow... I'm an open book to the evil government...
--------------------
Ed Womack
Get Milked
Posts: 735 | Registered: Jan 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Famous Druid
Gold Hearted SuperFan!
Member # 1769
Member Rated:
|
posted August 13, 2009 16:58
quote:
Originally posted by Grummash:
We must take our cue from that nice Mr Schrödinger - by wearing a tinfoil hat and not wearing a tinfoil hat at the same time!
Wow, Schrödinger's Hat.
Um, did anyone else notice that a scientific paper ostensibly from an American university used the word 'Aluminium'?
It's little mistakes like that that reveal the dark conspiracy beneath.
/me smells an MI6 rat.
--------------------
If you watch 'The History Of NASA' backwards, it's about a space agency that has no manned spaceflight capability, then does low-orbit flights, then lands on the Moon.
Posts: 10668 | From: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: Oct 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Xanthine
Solid Nitrozanium SuperFan!
Member # 736
Member Rated:
|
posted August 13, 2009 21:10
They spell it right more often than they spell it wrong in the rest of the paper so I think it's just a couple typos. ![[evil]](graemlins/evil.gif)
So for some reason I hit the linked references and found this which linked to to a hysterical rebuttal of the MIT findings.
--------------------
And it's one, two, three / On the wrong side of the lee / What were you meant for? / What were you meant for?
- The Decemberists
Posts: 7670 | From: the lab | Registered: Mar 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
