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'Laser Cloak' Could Hide Earth from Evil Aliens
Space.com ^ | 3/31/16 | Sarah Lewin

Posted on 04/01/2016 1:05:26 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 04/01/2016 1:05:26 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3416045/posts

The BBC News version was already posted, but:

(1) You can never have enough laser-cloaking-device-as-protection-against-aliens articles, and

(2) The content in this article is different.

As scientific gibberish goes, this nonsense is particularly fun.


2 posted on 04/01/2016 1:14:04 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Pollster1

can’t wait to see the comments and pictures in the morning :)

should be great.


3 posted on 04/01/2016 1:20:05 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: LibWhacker

Suppose the cloak makes the aliens think that Earth is composed of a crucial element needed for their dying civilization? Then what, eh?


4 posted on 04/01/2016 1:29:43 AM PDT by Ken H
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Wow, well can we start spending tax payer money on it immediately then?

/s

< no, I didn't read any of the article >

5 posted on 04/01/2016 2:03:53 AM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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To: LibWhacker

Cool!! Now, can we please use it to cloak Colorado from invading liberals fleeing California?


6 posted on 04/01/2016 2:27:02 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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Great-so after we have polluted the solar system airways with radio broadcasts for almost a hundred years—now our “brilliant” scientists want to hide the planet.

Too late—if the bad aliens want to find us they know where to find us.

And—we can’t seem to find any radio signals of our own out there.

There can be no doubt that in the intergalactic world advanced aliens are playing chess while we are playing checkers.


7 posted on 04/01/2016 2:37:05 AM PDT by cgbg (Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
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One other thought—Rupert Sheldrake has pointed out that human science is totally useless when dealing with intelligent life forms—science assumes that the dumb subject of its study will not try to subvert the study.


8 posted on 04/01/2016 2:39:28 AM PDT by cgbg (Epistemology is not a spectator sport.)
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The evil aliens would have ignored us and left us alone,...UNTIL THEY OBSERVED THE LASER CLOAKING DEVICE WE NOW POSSESS!!

What in God’s name are they thinking???

<8^0


9 posted on 04/01/2016 2:41:36 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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10 posted on 04/01/2016 2:47:11 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
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Simply no and no

These stupid thought experiments by those in academe get ridiculous


11 posted on 04/01/2016 2:52:41 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Pollster1

Last sentence is true

Also drives me nuts because these stupid star gazers know ZERO about lasers.


12 posted on 04/01/2016 2:57:11 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Too late by several decades. What you need is a flux capacitor


13 posted on 04/01/2016 2:58:33 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Twilight Imperium in 32 minutes
14 posted on 04/01/2016 3:05:04 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Nifster

Good point! Lol! (Plus, they can just follow their noses to get here, anyway.)


15 posted on 04/01/2016 3:07:55 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: LibWhacker

I’d rather they found a way to destroy space rocks headed our way. Don’t think aliens could get here from another solar system, but rocks have hit Earth in the past, and someday one will again.


16 posted on 04/01/2016 3:12:56 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: LibWhacker

Fine, but how are you going to mask all of those reruns of I Love Lucy that are travelling out into deep space?


17 posted on 04/01/2016 3:25:27 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: LibWhacker

Cool. How do we know that aliens detect planets the same way we do?


18 posted on 04/01/2016 3:29:43 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Nifster
Too late by several decades. What you need is a flux capacitor

Does that measure how fluxed we are?

19 posted on 04/01/2016 3:41:28 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: LibWhacker

Where are you going to find enough dilithium crystals to power the thing?


20 posted on 04/01/2016 3:43:37 AM PDT by circlecity
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