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Stand_watie

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Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality
« on: April 02, 2007, 07:46:11 PM »
I just found the physicists being from the UK amusing in light of the Harry Potter "invisibility cloak" thing.


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Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."
The Purdue University engineers, following mathematical guidelines devised in 2006 by physicists in the United Kingdom, have created a theoretical design that...

http://master.redorbit.com/news/technology/889774/engineers_bring_invisibility_one_step_closer_to_reality/index.html
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Re: Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2007, 08:30:47 PM »
The military is very interested. One step closer to the therm-optic camo in Ghost in the Shell SAC. Wink
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Re: Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2007, 09:55:10 AM »
As far as I'm concerned, Masamune Shirow is a prophet.  grin

I've been watching for BLEEX news with great interest. It only takes about two braincells to figure out where thats going.....
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Re: Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2007, 10:06:08 AM »
Quote from: CypherNinja on April 03, 2007, 08:55:10 AM
As far as I'm concerned, Masamune Shirow is a prophet.  grin

I've been watching for BLEEX news with great interest. It only takes about two braincells to figure out where thats going.....

I'm sure lots of snipers would like his sniper rifles with the satellite downlinks that overlay windspeed data as color pattern overlays in the scope. Or what looks like a liquid-isolation gimbal mount for them.

He comes up with some pretty good ideas.
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Re: Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2007, 10:08:01 AM »
Did not John Cleese have an invisible car in a James Bond movie?
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Re: Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2007, 09:25:55 PM »
Quote from: El Tejon on April 03, 2007, 09:08:01 AM
Did not John Cleese have an invisible car in a James Bond movie?
Yep.  Cleese made a pretty good 'Q', too.  But not as good as the original 'Q', Desmond Llewelyn, IMHO.
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Re: Engineers Bring 'Invisibility' One Step Closer to Reality
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2007, 05:40:41 AM »
A hundred years from now, hunting deer will be done with one of these invisibility suits and a large, invisible knife.
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