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Posted: 6th January 2007 01:50
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everyone has heard about stupid conspiracy theorists who think their government is controlling their brain with radiowaves and so wear tin foil helmets to stop it. turns out a university actually did research into this. heres the study http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
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Posted: 6th January 2007 02:19
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Right, because that isn't clearly a joke.
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Posted: 6th January 2007 02:34
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Minus the sarcasm, did you really think that that was real, King of Chocobos?
 The "centurion" style had me giggling.... but the chef's pride tin foil container in that one pic had me rolling, for some reason.  -------------------- Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978 |
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Posted: 6th January 2007 03:08
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lol its not about whether its real or not, its the fact that they put all this effort into making that
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Posted: 6th January 2007 04:25
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They're from MIT. They're not burdened by things like girls, or lives. Plenty of free time.
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Posted: 6th January 2007 04:28
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It's true. MIT is also the university where professors attempted to download their brains onto a hard drive, insert it into a robot, and become immortal. Weeeeiiiiird research goes on there.
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Posted: 6th January 2007 16:49
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I disclaim any responsibility for or association with this experiment.
Seriously, though, I am not associated with the MIT Media Lab, despite being in the area, but this is hilarious. They do all sorts of crazy things there. Edit For the record though, MIT people have lives, they just have a nerdily-humorous lifestyle. That, and the student population is actually nearly 50% girls. Oh, and they succeeded on that brain thing before Samus Aran came around. This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 6th January 2007 16:51 -------------------- Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing. You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey ) |
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Posted: 6th January 2007 19:43
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Actually, I heard that tin actually amplifies the strength of radio signals, so it defeats the purpose of having the tin-foil hat in the first place. I'm not 100% sure about that, of course.
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Posted: 6th January 2007 19:55
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Quote (Aether Master @ 6th January 2007 14:43) Actually, I heard that tin actually amplifies the strength of radio signals, so it defeats the purpose of having the tin-foil hat in the first place. I'm not 100% sure about that, of course. Well, according to the MIT study referenced above, you would be correct! -------------------- Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978 |
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Posted: 7th January 2007 04:52
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Oops, lol. I usually don't take the time to read links.
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Posted: 10th January 2007 07:29
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Metal has a lot of properties and conducting electricity and magnifying radio signals is two of them. Pretty easy way to test this out actually. Just take a Crappy cell phone that gets bad service and put it up next to a stop sign pole. I used to do this back before I replaced my broken phone (well one of them). Also, there may be 50% of girls at MIT but that statistic has nothing to do with the amount or quality of girls that the boys at MIT reel in.
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Posted: 10th January 2007 13:06
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Quote Also, there may be 50% of girls at MIT but that statistic has nothing to do with the amount or quality of girls that the boys at MIT reel in. Judging by the quality of paychecks most of those boys will reel in once they graduate, I'd be willing to bet you that they manage to land some fairly hot (though possibly shallow) women. -------------------- Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978 |
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