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Scientists close to Potter-style 'invisibility cloak'
ABC.Net ^ | 4-6-2007 | staff writer

Posted on 04/06/2007 9:53:30 AM PDT by bedolido

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To: bedolido

Somebody’s looking for a huge research grant. ‘Yes, invisibility is just around the corner — just give me $50 million and I’ll do it’.


41 posted on 04/06/2007 11:32:21 AM PDT by Aikonaa
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To: Aikonaa

“just give me $50 million and I’ll do it”

funny... but true... I give my wife $50 and it disappears


42 posted on 04/06/2007 11:34:40 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: bedolido; GovernmentIsTheProblem
Wonder how long it will take Chi-Comm espionage to steal all the science, the prototype, and the schematics for all our deployable hardware...

I would give them, oh, a few days before the first several squadrons of Chinese femme fatales to show up at Purdue seeking to be grad students working for the professors...

43 posted on 04/06/2007 11:50:33 AM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Reaganesque
It could shield a spacecraft from x-rays and gamma rays.

I don't think it is realy shielding the object. It appears it is just not allowing the reflection to be visible. The energy is still there...just diffused and redirected a bit.

44 posted on 04/06/2007 12:08:25 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Paul Ross

The energy is being redirected. Instead of going through the object, it goes around it. At least that’s my understanding of what I’ve read about negative refractive indices.


45 posted on 04/06/2007 12:13:13 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: bedolido

It bugs me when they refer to this as a “Harry Potter-style” invisibility cloak. Tales of exactly that sort of thing have been existent for millenia, the one that pops to mind first is Siegfried’s cloud cloak in the Niebelungenlied.


46 posted on 04/06/2007 1:17:07 PM PDT by SeƱor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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To: Experiment 6-2-6

Nope, the Klingons had it first and Capt. Kirk stoled it from the Romulan lady commanders ship by using Spock to romance her. This was after the Romulans copied the Klingon Bird of Prey. Oh, well, yes, too much time on my hands on some days!


47 posted on 04/06/2007 1:38:42 PM PDT by calex59
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To: bedolido

Capt Kirk and Spock ran a con job on a lady Romulan Commander, Spock kind of romanced her and Kirk pretended to be crazy as a sh** house mouse. One of the better episodes. I stand corrected also, Romulans invented it and gave it to the Klingons.


48 posted on 04/06/2007 1:41:08 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Waverunner
Damn those Klingons sure have ugly women.

I kinda think they're hot, except maybe the Durass sisters. Remember Worf's bride? But then that's just me, I'd probably like warm gotch too.

Regards,
GtG

49 posted on 04/06/2007 4:33:11 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Yea, those Klingon women are hot. Not.

50 posted on 04/06/2007 4:48:07 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: Paul Ross
If you fine tune this enough you'll get to the point where you can diffuse and redirect gamma rays and everything else.

That will give us an effective shield system so that travel in outerspace will be possible.

We can also shield Earth from excess or dangerous radiation ~ and that could very well be mistaken for climate control.

51 posted on 04/06/2007 6:42:25 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Tenacious 1
It sounds like this technology needs to be classified as it would seem to rendor some of our laser guided military munitions useless.

I am reminded of some of the weaknesses of H.G. Wells Invisible Man. He was revealed by rain or fog, and soot in the air outlined him. Wouldn't an invisible object make the same sort of 'hole' in whateverweather condition was going on around it?

52 posted on 04/06/2007 7:25:04 PM PDT by jmcenanly (Cowards take hostages. We do not.)
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That’s what they always say about Marines too.

“It doesn’t rain on Marines, it rains around them.”


53 posted on 04/07/2007 5:58:23 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: bedolido

Philidelphia Experiment

During WW2 it was to cloak ships, some say it worked.


54 posted on 04/07/2007 6:09:36 PM PDT by Eye of Unk
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

( I was referring to Nancy - the pimple on America’s butt - Peolosi)


55 posted on 04/08/2007 9:42:29 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: bedolido
making objects invisible by bending light around them

Bending light around this object would also mean that the light would never reach the object either. So for anyone who's inside the cloak, everything that's outside of it would disappear too.

56 posted on 04/08/2007 10:02:31 AM PDT by Dave Olson
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