Aluminum/Tin Hats

[LibertyWeeps]

I like a good consipiracy theory, I even have many of my own.

But I do not wear "tin hats", nor do I cover my windows with aluminum foil.

BUT..............

Here's my commentary on "tin hats".........................

When Boomers and Gen Xers were growing up, our TVs had "rabbit ear" antenneas in order to pick up the local TV stations broadcasts.
And in order for some TVs to get a better hold on the signals, we would put tin foil on the rabbit ears, allowing the TVs antenneas to latch on to the signals better.

SO................

If someone is wearing a tin foil hat...........wouldn't that just be gearing your brain to pick up the signals easier and more frequently?
Not repelling them, but absorbing them even more than not wearing a tin foil hat?

I'm just sayin............

 

[Oddball]

 

[scruffy]

A tin foil hat is like a lightning rod.

 

[1srelluc]

You talkin' to me?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I like a good consipiracy theory, I even have many of my own.

But I do not wear "tin hats", nor do I cover my windows with aluminum foil.

BUT..............

Here's my commentary on "tin hats".........................

When Boomers and Gen Xers were growing up, our TVs had "rabbit ear" antenneas in order to pick up the local TV stations broadcasts.
And in order for some TVs to get a better hold on the signals, we would put tin foil on the rabbit ears, allowing the TVs antenneas to latch on to the signals better.

SO................

If someone is wearing a tin foil hat...........wouldn't that just be gearing your brain to pick up the signals easier and more frequently?
Not repelling them, but absorbing them even more than not wearing a tin foil hat?

I'm just sayin............

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Aluminum on an antenna makes it better. Aluminum on your head reflects radio waves.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The old NTSC 480 TV format was crappy.
We watched a lot of fuzzy movies and TV shows.
But with streaming TV you can watch those old TV shows now in chrystal clear 1080p.

 

[scruffy]

What's funny is the tin foil hat types who then spend all day with AI.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Aluminum on an antenna makes it better. Aluminum on your head reflects radio waves.

THAT does not make sense.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

THAT does not make sense.

Metal on metal shares conduction. Metal on a head does not. It's physics.

We use strips of aluminum in chaff to decoy radars into seeing a target that is not really there because it reflects like a much bigger object.

 

[scruffy]

Metal on metal shares conduction. Metal on a head does not. It's physics.

You should ask the guitar players about that. They'll tell you, ground in the guitar is not the same as ground in the amp. You can shield your pickups with copper or aluminum foil, but the whole thing will turn into a gigantic antenna if you're not grounded. You can tell if you touch the knobs and you hear a hum.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You should ask the guitar players about that. They'll tell you, ground in the guitar is not the same as ground in the amp. You can shield your pickups with copper or aluminum foil, but the whole thing will turn into a gigantic antenna if you're not grounded. You can tell if you touch the knobs and you hear a hum.

That's exactly what I said. You just do not understand anything about the fact that your head is grounded because usually your feet are there!

 

[Leo123]

Ground the tin foil hat and you have a Faraday-Cage hat. You won't be receiving any signals. Might be interesting.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Metal on metal shares conduction. Metal on a head does not. It's physics.

We use strips of aluminum in chaff to decoy radars into seeing a target that is not really there because it reflects like a much bigger object.

AH. Gotcha.

 

[Leo123]

You should ask the guitar players about that. They'll tell you, ground in the guitar is not the same as ground in the amp. You can shield your pickups with copper or aluminum foil, but the whole thing will turn into a gigantic antenna if you're not grounded. You can tell if you touch the knobs and you hear a hum.

In a guitar input there is a hot and ground that is attached to the hot and ground shielded cord that goes into the amp so, the guitar ground would be the same as the amp circuit ground. That being said the amp chassis ground goes to the ground in it's power cord that is attached to the mains. The mains have a neutral (ground) and an earthen ground.

 

[scruffy]

In a guitar input there is a hot and ground that is attached to the hot and ground shielded cord that goes into the amp so, the guitar ground would be the same as the amp circuit ground.

Nope.

The wire is a resistor, it keeps your guitar ground above amp ground.

That being said the amp chassis ground goes to the ground in it's power cord that is attached to the mains.

You get the same problems in studios, engineers call them "ground loops" when the outlet on one side of the wall is at a different potential.

The mains have a neutral (ground) and an earthen ground.

Guitar and microphone signals are in the millivolt range. It doesn't take much resistance to get that much offset. In the old days they used to use steel chassis for guitar amps, but they don't anymore because they hum, the resistance is too high. Aluminum is preferred because it has a much lower resistance.