From all sorts of scans from space, has long been dispelled. The Internet literally exploded with information about these amazing miracle hats, they say, they protect your brain from radio waves. Also, wearing it, you can not be afraid of alien attacks by influencing the brain. It was believed that all negative effects were simply reflected back without causing any harm. However, thanks to a number of studies, it was found that the foil can in no way contribute to the reflection of various signals back into the universe. ToRead and Science wrote about it.

Every person has the right to opinion and beliefs. Many of those who were afraid of any tracking from space and all sorts of mind control, vehemently believed in such an invention as a foil hat. It was believed that such a "device" made of foil is a serious invention that will serve as a salvation from magnetic waves. Some, by the way, still wear them, believing that they will serve as an excellent weapon that will either send all negative signals back into space, or simply suppress them.

A series of experiments were carried out on such hats, the material for which was ordinary aluminum foil, thanks to which it was found that they could not be effective in protecting against control from space.

The research has been quite thorough. Several varieties of such a hat were used: the classic form, the Fez and the Centurion. The tests were carried out on volunteers. A foil cap was put on and receiving antennas were installed. They created certain frequencies, and the Agilent analyzer that was connected to them checked the incoming signals. The experiment showed that people's opinion that the foil cap blocks signals is wrong. And even on the contrary - the signals were amplified, not weakened.

This signal was analyzed by Agilent, and the result showed that the amplification of frequencies occurs literally in any area of ​​the brain. Therefore, a tinfoil hat is not only ineffective, but also harmful. And in a war with aliens, she will help not humanity, but enemies from outer space.

Nick Pope, the well-known in narrow circles head of the UFO research project of the UK Department of Defense, said that our planet is completely open to the invasion of extraterrestrial civilizations. After all, since the time when the UFO research department was closed, no one has been observing. He also noted that everything, as it was before, is not noted anywhere and is completely ignored. If suddenly someone reports that he saw something inexplicable, the Ministry will not react in any way.

Pope was project leader from 1991 to 1994. Over all these years of work, he has identified a lot of all kinds of signs of the presence of alien beings. According to him, the Earth is in no way protected from attack from outer space. However, an extraterrestrial civilization has never shown signs of hostility, so there are no significant reasons for alarm. However, you should not believe that if the war of the worlds suddenly starts, humanity will be saved by foil hats.

A hookah cap has been an accessory that has been accompanying smoking for several centuries. Today, it has somewhat lost its relevance, although its functions allow better control of the temperature. Why use this item and how to make it yourself?

What you need a cap for: an overview of functions

Its first use was associated with the living conditions of smokers. In the desert, during sandstorms and strong gusts of wind, it was almost impossible to cook shisha: the coals instantly smoldered from the wind, they were sprinkled with dust. To protect the chilim from negative influences, a cap was invented.

Naturally, there was no foil at that time, the walls were cast from metal alloys. These still exist today, they are made of stainless steel or aluminum. Some manufacturers (more often Turkish and Syrian) supply an accessory complete with a smoking device. Can be purchased separately. The price ranges from 300 to 1,500 rubles, depending on the size, brand and material.

Another purpose is heat control. The high walls covering the coal were a kind of progenitor of the colaude. An additional rim made it possible to create a hot environment around the coals, thereby making their smoldering process uniform and prolonged. This is transferred to the tobacco, so the mixture warms up better and smokes a little longer.

Later there were caps with a lid. The advantage of completely insulating the charcoal is that if you close the lid, an air gap of very hot air is created inside, which allows the charcoal to smolder more slowly, giving all the heat into the bowl.

In the East, the use of this accessory to this day is an integral part of hookah smoking. In Russia, few use the device.

There is also a mesh cap. Its functionality is much less - it is able to protect the coal from falling if the device suddenly loses its balance. It is useless for smoking.

Although the cost of the device is not too high, we still offer to save money and do needlework 🙂

How to make a DIY foil hat

If you are still not sure about the need to purchase, try to make it yourself and have a session. Of course, foil is not such a reliable assistant, but if you follow the instructions, you can make a quite decent analogue of a professional product.

You only need foil, the higher its density, the better. Let's get down to business:

1. Unwind the sheet from the roll about 1.5 meters. Portion foil is supplied in the form of square pieces - this is more convenient, but more expensive.
2. The sheet needs to be folded several times, as a result, a square-shaped segment should be obtained. Bend as evenly as possible, avoiding wrinkles.
3. Now we fold the corners diagonally (so that an isosceles triangle comes out), knowledge from labor lessons in elementary school will come in handy 😉
4. We also connect the corners of the base of the resulting triangle. The result is a right triangle.
5. We adjust its size to fit our bowl by twisting the narrow part into a “tube”.
6. We clog the bowl, install it, cover it with a cover sheet and put our makeshift cap. We put hot coals inside.
7. To create an ideal environment for smoldering, we divide the upper edge of the homemade product into two parts and cover the bowl with one of them.

The whole process is shown in detail in the video:

You can not bother too much and make a regular cone. If desired, cover it with an additional sheet. But the appearance of such a device loses.

How to use a hookah cap

To maintain or increase the temperature in the cup, you should cover it. If you feel that the tobacco may overheat (or it has already happened) - remove and let the mixture cool slightly.

Don't forget to shake off the ashes from the charcoal, it worsens the return of heat to the tobacco.

The monolithic cap is most useful for outdoor smokers. Wind or moisture will not allow you to enjoy the taste, reduce the amount of smoke (due to large heat loss). The cap will solve these problems, so when going to nature with a hookah, do not forget to take some foil.

When you get acquainted with all the advantages of the device, you will definitely want to buy a professional device. We recommend the following brands:

In addition to maintaining heat and controlling the thermo-mode, accessories give the hookah a traditional look, reminiscent of the long history of narghile. Therefore, the product will certainly please your aesthetic impulses.

A tinfoil hat can shield the mind from outside intrusion. So, at least, in all seriousness, a fairly large number of people think. Conspiracy theories, a world government, a tinfoil hat - a perfectly logical chain. Today we will try to trace where this strange invention came from and whether it is as useless as it seems at first glance.

Generally speaking, people's commitment to shielding their minds from alien invasion or intelligence agencies is the first signal of progressive paranoid schizophrenia. Patients believe that the foil is capable of reflecting control signals (in particular, the Russians tend to defend themselves strongly against the Pentagon).

Science and life

In fact, the legs of the protective cap myth grow from quite scientific facts. Foil can indeed significantly reduce the intensity of exposure to high-frequency radiation on the human brain. Shielding from this material will work like a Faraday cage, shielding external radio emission. A thin, half-millimeter layer is capable of blocking long, medium and ultrashort waves - no cap will help against the ultra-long-wave range.

Life and Science

In reality, all these scientific calculations are not very applicable. The fact is that for a successful blocking, a tinfoil hat must be grounded. In fact, a person trying to protect himself in this way will not need a hat, but a real foil container with a half-meter pin at the base that will go into the ground.

Israeli savvy

But there is a hat made of foil and its practical application. Israeli surgeons use a cap to shield infrared radiation - this is how the heads are cooled during operations on premature babies. They cannot yet regulate their own body temperature, so operations are carried out in rooms with additional heaters. With the task of removing excess heat, a foil hat copes brilliantly!

She works!

American psychologists from the group of Geoffrey Woodman also made a real tinfoil hat - only it really works. Woodman noticed that weak electromagnetic fields can stimulate the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which improves learning. At the moment, tests of the so-called "foil cap" (in fact, it is more of a rim of electrodes) are still underway.

The tin foil hat has become a mocking meme for those who are paranoid or conspiracy theorists. The belief that everything has a material nature is one of the tenets of the modern “scientific” picture of the world, so it is not surprising that those who suspect that “something is wrong with reality” also explain this with the help of materialistic hallucinations. The world government (black helicopters, HAARP, "Swamp", deep state, etc.) controls society not only from the outside, but also from the inside, penetrating inside - through chemtrails or "radiation".

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The recently deceased American nonconformist philosopher Adam Parfrey in Apocalypse Culture cited a story about how "aliens" penetrated the inside of a paranoid person with the help of special wires in a more brutal way - through holes in the body and then the victim of the invasion looked for signs of a similar attack in their colleagues, trying to investigate first of all, their bodies - whether there will be wires there. The topic of implantation by aliens of some foreign objects in the abductee (a victim abducted by a UFO) is so widespread that from time to time complaints are heard in the US Congress with a demonstration of a lot of "evidence".

The tinfoil hat rightfully belongs to this paraphernalia of suspicion and is also justified by the feeling that the influence of the outside world is powerfully penetrating deep into the human being, invading the brain and causing it to do something that under other circumstances the person (as it seems to him) would not do. And since a person today is thought of by both normal and mentally ill people as a fundamentally material being, the nature of the penetration of the external into the internal is interpreted in material terms - as rays, waves, vibrations, etc. From such “rays”, by analogy with a cell Faraday, which stops magnetic radiation, and is designed to protect the magic foil cap.

In principle, we are dealing with an ancient archetype, only in its archeomodern version. Of course, it is quite unusual to watch adults in ridiculous headdresses resembling a children's party, and it is from this contrast between the serious faces of the wearers of foil hats and these objects themselves that a sharp sense of idiocy arises, causing laughter and contempt (among those who wear such a hat themselves would never wear), as well as some fear (you never know what psychos can decide on).

But if one makes allowance for materialism, which is the common denominator of both sick and healthy in the modern world, then tin foil hat wearers can be (partly) rehabilitated.

The fact is that the consciousness of a person does not belong and never belonged to him as a kind of property. If we only think about where our thoughts come from and how our ideas about ourselves and the world are formed, we will be forced to admit that almost everything that we consider ours is received by us from outside - in the process of upbringing, training, education. , social interactions, from culture, language, history, science, from communications and mass media.

The founder of sociology, E. Durkheim, introduced the term "collective consciousness" to emphasize the social nature of thinking as such. Individual consciousness only reflects the collective. But here the effect of a mirror operates, which, being broken into parts, still continues to reflect the whole in each of them. Hence the illusion of the property of consciousness is born - that we are dealing with a mind that belongs only to us on an individual basis. We too seriously and uncritically use the stable formulas "I think that ...", "I believe that ...", "I am sure that .." etc., sincerely believing that we are talking about a deeply individual act. But if we step aside a little from the hypnotic illusion, from the affect with which we pronounce the personal pronoun of the first person, then we cannot but notice that any of our statements are based on methods, knowledge and procedures gleaned from outside, and that it is most often typical and serial (quoting), that is, with the same pathos uttered by many other individuals.

What is truly creative and original is only a failure of the system when we start to say something unusual, unpredictable and indistinct, but then we risk switching to an individual language completely incomprehensible to others, spoken by oracles or schizophrenics (and sometimes poets). In any case, our individual thoughts (as well as desires) are fundamentally universal, and it does not matter in whose body and in whose brain they swarm. If we continue this observation, we can come to the conclusion together with Heidegger that almost always the one who thinks in us is not ourselves, but some kind of impersonal beginning, which Heidegger called das Man, starting from the German grammatical construction man denkt, man will ( literally: “think”, etc.; English they think, French on pense, etc.). In other words, we do not really think, but das Man thinks through us, laying in us the trajectories of conventional wisdom (conventional wisdom) or deviations from it.

This is where the tinfoil hat comes into play. It must be understood not clinically, but philosophically. When does a person make a radical decision to put this misunderstanding on his head? When the suspicion that his thoughts and states are not his own, do not belong to him, but are induced from outside, becomes so strong that a person, not paying attention to what others think about him, agrees to look like an idiot, just to protect himself from the influence of das man. From here, the tin foil hat acquires a philosophical and symbolic meaning: it is a sign that in a person suspicion has overcome the shame of seeming ridiculous, that he is no longer able to remain a technical detail in recycling alienated thoughts, desires and feelings and seeks to find himself, his true "I" , his "inner man", hiding himself with a "Faraday cage" from the all-piercing rays of das Man "a.

Obviously, people who wear a tin foil hat on their heads are not very healthy. But obviously healthier than those who do not wear these foil hats. Of course, other caps and, moreover, headdresses in general have a similar origin associated with symbolic sacred anatomy. The headdresses of the ancient priests, the hoods of the priests or the fox hats of the Hasidim are traces of the symbolic decoration of the head, emphasizing its dignity and its proximity to heaven (Plato believed that the straightforwardness of a person is associated with the attraction of his highest center - the brain - to the heavenly starry ancestral home, from where souls come ).

A crazy tinfoil hat is, of course, not a mitre or a tiara, but its modern, even somewhat postmodern, surrogate. This is not just a disease - it is the first step towards recovery. I agree that it looks extremely stupid and funny and, naturally, from das Man "and this skull wrap, which evokes associations with dough prepared for the oven, will not protect. The rays of das Man" are too powerful. But the very suspicion of the unfortunate owners of a tinfoil hat is worthy of respect. They guessed. They hurt. They feel that something has gone wrong in the world. And in this they are absolutely right. Their suspicion is well founded. Yes, something went wrong. And keeps going. And this is extremely serious. Therefore, you should not offend those who have already made themselves a tin foil hat. They, even half a step, but ahead of us ...