Is it true that wearing tinfoil stops radiation from?

Question

penetrating your body ?

Would this not make nuclear weapons obsolete ?

Answer 1

Yes. And if you form it into a hat, the aliens can't read your thoughts.

Answer 2

No..not really. in fact in some circumstances, it can actually be more harmful than good.

I knew a man in the early 1990s that wore a foil coated suit over his regular clothes to work every day. his eyes were cover by a foiled visor, and he wore a foil plated filtering face piece respirator. I met him because he was breaking out in strange skin rashes when he hadn't before, and he had been wearing this strange combination of clothes since 1982, due to his fear of the different type of radiations involved.

we did some testing in his work area, and found a level of electro-magnetic energy that was just enough to penetrate his suit, and cause him to walk around like a living capacitor. he was just a large, mobile antennae, and he seemed to suck up all the electrical energy. in short, he was cooking quite nicely in that suit, and I'm not talking about heat.

Answer 3

There are all sorts of radiation.
Ultraviolet light (UV) for instance, can burn skin, but is blocked by creams, clothes- and tinfoil.

Gamma radiation, however, penetrates deep. Tinfoil would just hold your crispy remains in one place.

Oh, and then there's particle radiation. Alpha and beta particles. These are what you get from nuclear weapons.

Answer 4

some radiation, but not all of it. The radioactivity from a nuclear weapon that we have to worry about comes in the form of alpha particles. These dont penetrate your skin, but can be inhaled, and contaminate food and water supplies. You'd die of internal radiation poisoning because of this.

Answer 5

It is probably as affective as newspaper in warding off nuclear radiation. Just watch the early propagandist adverts of the 50's (US) that taught citizens how to avoid exposure to nuclear attacks by hiding under the L.A. Times.

Answer 6

Since most perish from the extreme heat of a nuclear blast and the remaining die from radiation poisoning due to inhalation of radioactive dust and drinking or eating from contaminated food sources, I don't suppose it matters what you choose to wear while dying.

Answer 7

It may stop some forms of radiation, but if you are hoping that it will stop radiation from a nuclear bomb, then forget about it. That knid of radiation will contaminate the water and food procucts, and will kill you internally ,by way of radiation poisoning.

Answer 8

When was the last time you saw TINfoil. It will stop radiation just as affectively as it will stop a bullet.

Answer 9

Tinfoil stops one sort of radiation: alpha waves. But it doesn't stop beta waves or gamma waves, and these can be deadly.

Answer 10

Yeah. Lets cover the entire world in tin foil. The big secret our government doesn't want you to know, tin foil stops radiation! HAHAAAAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!