Teleportation, now cloaking!

Just saw this story and thought it fits nicely with the recent teleportation thread. Seems they are a long way from being able to hide my Warbird, but it is progress. ~D

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Scientists Create Cloak of Invisibility
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON - Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before _ to develop a Cloak of Invisibility. It isn't quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Capt. James T. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter, but it is a significant start and could show the way to more sophisticated designs.

In this first successful experiment, researchers from the United States and England were able to cloak a copper cylinder.

It's like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.

"We have built an artificial mirage that can hide something from would-be observers in any direction," said cloak designer David Schurig, a research associate in Duke University's electrical and computer engineering department.

For their first attempt, the researchers designed a cloak that prevents microwaves from detecting objects. Like light and radar waves, microwaves usually bounce off objects, making them visible to instruments and creating a shadow that can be detected.

Cloaking used special materials to deflect radar or light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream. It differs from stealth technology, which does not make an aircraft invisible but reduces the cross-section available to radar, making it hard to track.

The new work points the way for an improved version that could hide people and objects from visible light.

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I believe the japanese have similar technoligy, awesome stuff.

Thats interesting.
:gah2: I wanted to hide as Harry Potter does

They can make all the cloaking devices and teleports they like, but they still haven't delivered on their promise they made way back in the sixties that we'll be living in our houses with high-tech robots doing all the house work and fetching our slippers and pipe whilst we sit with our feet up in front of the fire and moan about the cost of hovercars to our robot wives.

These scientists have got all their priorities wrong.

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Originally Posted by professorspatula

They can make all the cloaking devices and teleports they like, but they still haven't delivered on their promise they made way back in the sixties that we'll be living in our houses with high-tech robots doing all the house work and fetching our slippers and pipe whilst we sit with our feet up in front of the fire and moan about the cost of hovercars to our robot wives.

These scientists have got all their priorities wrong.

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It is impossible turn back in the time.

This is great news, by 2010[hopeful] we'll have teleporting invisible armies running around.

At least they won't be able to put you in the loony-bin for yelling there are invisible people after you.:sweatdrop:

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Originally Posted by Keba

At least they won't be able to put you in the loony-bin for yelling there are invisible people after you.:sweatdrop:

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That'll just make you a terrorist... Instant transportation to Cuba!

Better, no more straight-jackets for me!

And warm weather ... I always liked the tropics.

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Originally Posted by Caius Flaminius

It is impossible turn back in the time.

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Indeed, but turning back time has nothing to do with anything and wasn't even mentioned.

Yes, now all the Military needs is some sort of Pocket Knife Contraption that shoots out of your *** , just incase you need some tweezers to pick a stray hair out of your nose, pop the cap off a beer bottle, or "accidentally" cut off the Bikini of a hot sunbather passing you by.

Wasn't that one of Q's inventions in a previous James Bond movie?

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Originally Posted by Fragony

I believe the japanese have similar technoligy, awesome stuff.

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Yes, this is old. However, I think many don't know and it's too cool not to share. :2thumbsup:

Invisibility?!! Ha!!! The ultimate form of cowardice in battle! Real men rush into the midst of battle half-naked and armed with a double-bladed axe or a bastard sword! The cowardly inventions such as shield, armor and trench are now joined by another of the same kind!

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Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix

Invisibility?!! Ha!!! The ultimate form of cowardice in battle! Real men rush into the midst of battle half-naked and armed with a double-bladed axe or a bastard sword! The cowardly inventions such as shield, armor and trench are now joined by another of the same kind!

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:eeeek: What battle? I thought this invention was for sneaking into the ladies' room... :creep:

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Originally Posted by Conqueror

:eeeek: What battle? I thought this invention was for sneaking into the ladies' room... :creep:

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Nope.

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Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix

Invisibility?!! Ha!!! The ultimate form of cowardice in battle! Real men rush into the midst of battle half-naked and armed with a double-bladed axe or a bastard sword! The cowardly inventions such as shield, armor and trench are now joined by another of the same kind!

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Only half-naked? Real men go into battle in the nude.

and whats with the Battle Axe and Bastard Sword? REAL Men go Fully Nude and only use their teeth and bare hands. :yes:

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Originally Posted by Vladimir

Yes, this is old. However, I think many don't know and it's too cool not to share. :2thumbsup:

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I don't think it is. You may be confusing a coat covered in cameras with something that is genuinely cloaking. This was thought theoretically impossible only a few months ago apparently.

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Originally Posted by BDC

I don't think it is. You may be confusing a coat covered in cameras with something that is genuinely cloaking. This was thought theoretically impossible only a few months ago apparently.

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Old.

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/stealth_jacket.jpg

Kinda, :sweatdrop: .