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# serious card:
would foil actually stop any sort of radio waves from hitting your head?
(Peter_G, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:04, archived)
# apparently so
www.rockcastle.org/activities/radiowaves/radiowaves.html
(I helped save b3ta! kingsuperspecial is in an audience, wanking furiously, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:06, archived)
# Yes
Yes it would.

EDIT: foil would actually stop all radio waves from reaching your head if you wrapped it entirely around your head. However, leaving a space for your neck would mean that there may be some penetration into your brain caused by diffraction, which would (of course) depend on the size of your neck and the wavelength of the radio waves in question.
Safest to wear a total foil suit or live in a Faraday cage if you are truly worried about such things.
(I helped save b3ta! littlefish I like cheese, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:06, archived)
# Faraday suit of armour :D

Edit: or just a large veil sort of thing out of weaved metal? Like netting, but metal, and goes all around.
(I helped save b3ta! Rev. Cleo still alive, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:35, archived)
# metamaterials should probably be involved
like that invisibility cloak thing.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:44, archived)
# Wrap some around a radio and find out.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:07, archived)
# Would have no effect against certain other types of radiation though.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:10, archived)
# this was my worry
0_o
(Peter_G, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:13, archived)
# I think it's gamma rays that can penetrate up to 6cm of lead.
If I'm remembering secondary school science correctly. They're unlikely to control your mind though, just give you cancer.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:15, archived)
# hahahaha
why am I finding this stupidly funny :D
(Peter_G, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:16, archived)
# lol, cancer.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:17, archived)
# it's not that
I was just picturing some sinister scientist giving a status report to his superior:

Scientist: the test data is back
President: well does it work? are we controlling peoples minds?
Scientist: no, not really but most people living in downtown new york have brain cancer
(Peter_G, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:20, archived)
# Evil scientists seem to be rubbish these days.
No-one builds a mecha-flamesuit and goes on a rampage anymore, like at the start of Lethal Weapon 4.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:25, archived)
# Times have changed.
Now we're all just manufacturing new strains of flu, you get more panic that way.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:28, archived)
# See I like the manufacturing flu strains.
Giant flu strains.

Made of steel.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:31, archived)
# It depends on the energy of the gamma rays.
6cm of lead would do a decent job with most things though.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:16, archived)
# the hat would be *really* heavy though.
(Peter_G, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:17, archived)
# Well if you don't want to be a sheeple you have to put up with a sore neck
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:20, archived)
# Well I've commissioned a helmet made exclusively from 6cm-thick lead.
I hope you're right and I hope my neck muscles grow significantly before it arrives.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:18, archived)
# They would be the one, not sure about the amount of lead but they're pretty much the most penetrative things next to neutrinos and such.
However they're fairly unlikely to give you cancer given they just pass straight through you.

Unless you're made of lead....then you're fucked.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:17, archived)
# For many reasons.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:18, archived)
# The lead poisoning would be worrying too
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:19, archived)
# It either marginally blocks or massively amplifies depending entirely on the frequency.
It's pretty much useless though given that pretty much all electromagnetic radiation would be able to just pass through your jaw into the brain even if the tin foil could block it anyway.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:07, archived)
# Just to be on the safe side,
Enclose the entire head in a Faraday cage.
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:09, archived)
# Why not try it
make a tinfoil hat and stick your head in a microwave ;)

But in seriousness yes it will reflect radiowaves.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:07, archived)
# If you can completely encase yourself in foil, probably.
Although I'd be fairly surprised if they could penetrate your tissue and skull to reach your brain anyway.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:08, archived)
# and I would be even more surprised if radio waves could reasonably control the brain
disrupt, perhaps - like electro-convulsive therapy, but not actually direct or suppress thoughts, let alone promote new ones.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:42, archived)
# Agreed.
www.b3ta.com/board/9415199
Although, interestingly my current supervisor specialises in magnetic stimulation and can make peoples limbs move by waving the stimulator over their head.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:46, archived)
# hmmm, worrying!
but I guess that shows that, however complex the brain is, it is still an electro-mechanical system, that can be influenced by such forces.

well, I don't know - you might not be able to get very fine-grained control from the outside.

*evil plots*
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:50, archived)
# It's pretty crude stuff, wave it over the right motion centre and the arm twitches about or lifts up.
I don't think they've found the 'give me money' centre of the brain yet, sadly.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:52, archived)
# Only if it completely encloses your head
You might find your neck gets in the way a bit but I'm sure someone wise enough wisdom to wear a tinfoil hat would be able to work around that with some ingenuity and a sharp saw.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:08, archived)
# Full body foil suit.
Complete with air tank.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:09, archived)
# Does the air in the tanks contain chemtrails?
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:11, archived)
# Damn it, found me out.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:12, archived)
# No, it contains swine flu and Bifidus Digestivum!
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:12, archived)
# I feel like I've asked a really stupid question.
(Peter_G, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:12, archived)
# I've always wondered the same thing.
It's not that stupid.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:14, archived)
# Nah.
The only stupid bit would be assuming assorted radiowaves could have any coherent effect on the random jumble of neurons that make up the brain.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:14, archived)
# Or assuming that anyone would really give a shit about the contents of most people's brains.
(Jeru War and Piss, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:16, archived)
# Of course they can.
But only after they've been through a radio and turned into bangin' toons man.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:16, archived)
# Yes, when I tune into the radio it frequently inspires disinterest and the desire to turn it off.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:18, archived)
# oh, right, I didn't read this :) ignore ^ reply up there...
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:45, archived)
# Oh fuck, too late
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Sat 2 May 2009, 23:47, archived)