Comments on: The burglar with the lemon juice disguise http://mindhacks.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ophios http://mindhacks.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-25302 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:46:22 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-25302 and if no one took physics, then all criminals might be walking free today! haha.

I guess better sorry than safe is your motto?

]]> By: Cameron http://mindhacks.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-12888 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:34:19 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-12888 @Geoff: Wheeler believed that the lemon juice would cause his face to be blurred in the security camera footage.

While the lemon juice would cause diffraction (which is certainly what Wheeler was going for), it would be on a very minor scale and the effect probably wouldn’t be noticeable on a security camera.

It was not poor logic that doomed Wheeler; it was a lack of understanding of the effect he was attempting to use.

And maybe we don’t want more science education…if Wheeler had taken Physics, another criminal might be walking free today! haha

]]> By: Michael http://mindhacks.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-11086 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:43:17 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-11086 “It’s not what you don’t know that will get you in trouble; it’s what you know that ain’t so.” Mark Twain

Knowing is an illusion IMHO! You never really know anything…it’s the feeling of knowing. Knowing you are in love or hate someone is all about emotions. It applies to all aspects of human belief. Humans = creatures of emotion; not logic…someone said… maybe it was Andrew Carnegie?

]]> By: Geoff http://mindhacks.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-5080 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:40:26 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/#comment-5080 “Apparently, Mr. Wheeler was under the impression that rubbing one’s face with lemon juice rendered it invisible to videotape cameras.”
But surely not just to cameras: Kids commonly use lemon juice as a form of “invisible ink,” which only shows up on paper when it’s heated. And if lemon juice can make ink invisible, why wouldn’t rubbing it on your face make you invisible?
This is why science education is so important….

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