Anybody see "Alias" last night? Didja catch the "tin-foil" reference?

[webtrainer]

There was a short bit about how the CIA has developed a satellite-based way to perform encephalographies (brain scans). IMHO, if a spy-technology is mentioned on Alias, it's probably being perfected in the real world.

Anyway, it makes you think that maybe having that tin-foil hat on full-time isn't a crazy idea after all!

MORE DETAILS: Later, Sloane drops the green ball into the artifact, which etches a brain wave pattern on parchment. They use a DOD satellite network capable of remote encephalography to locate The Passenger. She's in a labor camp in Chechnya, under the alias of Talia Kozlov. Syd infiltrates the Chechen camp and finds her sister in a catatonic state and strapped to a bed.

From http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/EpisodeRecapPage/showid-3451/epid-317482/


ON EDIT: added Brain Scans and details from TVTOME.com

[meegbear]

1. What is encephalography?

please define for the encephalography-impaired.

[webtrainer]

2. There I go, using big words . . .

whose meaning I don't really know . . .

It was about the CIA doing brain scans from satellites, and how each brain has a unique signature, so they were trying to find "the Passenger" using this technology.

Just made me think that all the tin-hats could be useful.

[Frederic Bastiat]

3. They can do that?

(I always liked Alias but never got around to seeing it much.)

[sir_captain]

5. I highly doubt it

it's a *tv* show.

[sir_captain]

4. Pretty sure that's impossible

They mention a lot of things on Alias that are not even close to being possible

We barely even understand what brain-waves signify

[Frederic Bastiat]

6. Yeah but whom is "we"

Are you CIA? ;-)

[sir_captain]

8. Haha

you caught me ;-)

[Shrek]

7. You're wrong, wrong, wrong

Every single thing on Alias is real and in use by the CIA. Nothing about the show is unrealistic in the slightest.

;)

[Canuckistanian]

9. Tinfoil doesn't work. Everyone knows that

You've gotta have a titanium/tellurium alloy or they can read you like a goldarned book!
They tried it on me once and I fooled 'em. I Just made my brain go blank. Suckers!
:freak: