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[โ€“] zephyr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Your skull acts as an antenna

How?

[โ€“] pturn1@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

The tinfoil hat you're wearing amplifies the signal!

[โ€“] Ketchup@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago

Your skull is a parabolic reflector

[โ€“] buycurious@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve read two takes on this before:

  1. The cavity of your head helps project the signal to your car

  2. The water molecules in your head amplify the radio waves to reach your car

[โ€“] Barbacamanitu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine how water could amplify a signal. If anything, it's the reflector like shape of your skull.

[โ€“] Wander@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

The way I do it is holding the bottom of the key under the soft part of the lower jaw while holding the mouth open as a resonance chamber.

[โ€“] buycurious@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Iโ€™ve read two takes on this before:

  1. The cavity of your head helps project the signal to your car

  2. The water molecules in your head amplify the radio waves to reach your car