Don’t Throw Away Your Tinfoil Hat Just Yet!
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So I was reviewing a Twitter gone wild sort of site called “Woofer.” Designed to encourage as much text as possible in a tweet, I noticed that today Woofer was featuring a tweet explaining that perhaps all of those folks rocking their own tinfoil hats might not actually be mentally ill. No, based on what I am reading here, I think they may have simply been early adopters. According to the above linked page, there is actually a patent out there for beaming a signal into a subject’s head! How wild is that?
So what does all of this really mean? Well, I see this as breaking down into a few different things. First of all, Woofer is clearly not really making your Twitter tweets any longer, it is merely providing you with a larger text box to work with.
Second, next time you see some dude rolling by on a bicycle with a tinfoil helmet, it might be high time to give him an authoritative nod as thanks to this post, you are now “in the know.” And last, there are some REALLY weird patents out there. No really, you should scroll through this some time — the contents here might shock you.
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Ted Bruner
August 29th, 2009
at 8:03am
Actually, the head-foil came about when the US Embassy, in Moscow, USSR, was claiming bombardment from buildings surrounding the compound using micro-wave transmitters. As I recall, they were putting aluminum foil in their windows and some may have resorted to wearing foil caps and “space-suits”. That was some time ago, and I don’t know if any of those stories were saved or archived, but that’s where the idea(s) first started.
As far as I know, there is still fear amongst some learned folk, albeit not the ones in “society” that microwave towers can pose problems to living things; after all, the microwave oven was discovered because of the dead birds found along “line-of-site” towers in the mountains - or so I heard, … back then.
Just remember, never place the foil into a plastic container because it can discharge static electricity which can affect your brain.
And, remember, never place the foil into a plastic container because it can discharge static electricity which can affect your brain.
Kevin S
August 29th, 2009
at 1:06pm
Microwave ovens were invented in the 1940s, discovered in working on radar magnetrons. Wikipedia has info on it, with references.