I know, I know, Tin foil hats is just a classic conspiracy. However I really want to know can genuinely block of some rays? For instance: Can it block visible light from burning your head into blazing ashes? and Can it obstruct microwaves?. In conclusion, would they absolutely undoubtedly can do this, or is just a additional copy of a ha-ha in the textbook?
Undoubtedly, when worn in the sun, a tin-foil hat would block the light that might give you a sunburn.
However - and I am not an expert - I’d guess that your skin & skull have a better chance of obstructing any “waves” that may affect the electrical activity in your brain.
If you were, for example, struck by lightening, your skin is reasonably conductive and hopefully prevent your brain from being cooked. Wearing the tin foil (actually aluminium) would do next to nothing in this case (except, perhaps, to keep your head warm after you die)
To answer your question about protection from microwaves, you might want to google a video of what happens to aluminum foil inside a microwave. Not pretty at all. I would not recommend using an aluminum foil hat to protect yourself from microwaves.
Something I learned on the Dope:
If you are protecting yourself from invasive rays of the CT type you need to have the shiny side out.
If you are trying to stop them from reading your mind you need to have the shiny side in.
So best approach is a double layer hat, shiny side up on top, shiny side down underneath.
They have to be connected to a copper rod sunk 36" into the ground to be effective.
Also, a tinfoil hat several feet thick might stop a low-velocity projectile. Maybe.
That shows aluminum foil is effective. All the sparking comes from the energy absorbed by the foil, i.e. energy that isn’t getting past the foil.
My brother in law was a janitor for them 10 years back or so. According to him they aren’t interested in anybody who isn’t interesting, ie. “Aware of them.”
All of their focus is on “identifying” and "monitoring " those who are aware of them, and wearing Tinfoil toques as they call them is like throwing chum in the bathwater.
I see there is a Wikipedia article on tin foil hats, which may provide the information the OP is seeking.
Nope. Better to have a double layer, yes, but it should be with both shiny sides facing one another. That way, when they observe you on the tracking satellite, they won’t know that you’re protected from the mind control rays, and they won’t wonder at their inability to monitor your thoughts.
Tin foil isolates, blocks or reduces the penetrating power of radio waves, mobile phone signal and your WiFi signal.
Not really suitable as a hat tho, but new build houses use tinfoil in the insulation sheets ( see image1 and image 2) which make the reception of mobile phone coverage poor and the distribution of WiFi thou-out the house from one point difficult.
And there is of cos the Space blanket for heat insulation and reflection… still not a hat tho!
Yes, it protects from the actual microwaves, but the side effect is that it would set your head on fire! Or, as we said in the Navy, it will turn you into a Screaming Alpha!
Something I’ve always kind of wondered is why we call it tin foil. I don’t think I’ve ever seen actual tin foil sold anywhere, just aluminum foil. I guess we all used to use tin foil and the name stuck after we switched to aluminum. Fewer syllables and easier to type.
In the digital forensics world, if you’re collecting a mobile phone and you want to block signals to it without powering it off, you would use a Faraday bag. If one isn’t handy, then wrapping the phone in aluminum foil will do in a pinch.
I think you’re right about this (except that not all of us do call it “tin foil”). Wikipedia notes: “Actual tin foil was superseded by cheaper and more durable aluminium foil after World War II. Despite this, aluminium foil is still referred to as ‘tin foil’ in many regions.”
“Tin foil” is also on their list of list of misnomers where an older name was retained.
if you are wearing a tin-foil yarmulke, I imagine the protection is slight.
Suppose you are wearing a tin-foil ushanka (like Kyle wears in South Park), which I think would give you much better protection, but leaves the face uncovered. Could I read your mind (or project thoughts into it) if you were facing me?
Ah, thanks. I shoulda consulted Wikipedia before I WAGged.
I’m in Texas, 54 years old, and I’ve only heard “tin foil” when directly followed by the word “hat.” I’ve never heard the general purpose sheet material referred to as anything other than aluminum foil or just “foil.”
When I was a lad in the 50s and 60s aluminum foil was called ‘tin foil’ fairly often. But I don’t hear it much these days except as hat material.
Wouldn’t a drag chain offer similar protection?
If the hat had enough layers it might function as a somewhat-effective helmet, like a shiny hard hat. In that sense it could certainly provide some protection to your head and its insides.