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Thread started 08/11/08 1:15pm

Graycap23

Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

They already ready do this with your PAYCHECKS.




Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak
WASHINGTON — Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible.

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects.

The findings, by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Xiang Zhang, are to be released later this week in the journals Nature and Science.

The new work moves scientists a step closer to hiding people and objects from visible light, which could have broad applications, including military ones.

People can see objects because they scatter the light that strikes them, reflecting some of it back to the eye. Cloaking uses materials, known as metamaterials, to deflect radar, light or other waves around an object, like water flowing around a smooth rock in a stream.

Metamaterials are mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite. They are designed to bend visible light in a way that ordinary materials don't. Scientists are trying to use them to bend light around objects so they don't create reflections or shadows.

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 research was funded in part by the U.S. Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation's Nano-Scale Science and Engineering Center.
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Reply #1 posted 08/11/08 1:18pm

obsessed

We already have them on the org lol
Anyway, this is interesting cool
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Reply #2 posted 08/11/08 1:19pm

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Reply #3 posted 08/11/08 1:24pm

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Yes, very interesting.

But damnyum man...hmm this could mean a lot of things.

So I can use one of these and sneak into Eva Mendes' shower?

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Reply #4 posted 08/11/08 1:24pm

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Reply #5 posted 08/11/08 1:30pm

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they have been doing this for years , My friend who was in the special forces was telling me all about it.. the suit in qusetion that makes this possible , takes light and bends it and if i remember correcty make you apear as part of the background ...but i also was told a share eye could make you out if they looked close..... he said it was really cool
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Reply #6 posted 08/11/08 1:34pm

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It would be nice if they made the suits available to the public once it's done. They'd be pretty expensive though. sigh
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Reply #7 posted 08/11/08 2:03pm

Mach

I'm going to show up to the ATL Invasion sporting one of these mr.green
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Reply #8 posted 08/11/08 2:05pm

Graycap23

Mach said:

I'm going to show up to the ATL Invasion sporting one of these mr.green

As long as u show up.....
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Reply #9 posted 08/11/08 2:06pm

Mach

Graycap23 said:

Mach said:

I'm going to show up to the ATL Invasion sporting one of these mr.green

As long as u show up.....



Are you staying downtown or ?
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Reply #10 posted 08/11/08 2:22pm

Graycap23

Mach said:

Graycap23 said:


As long as u show up.....



Are you staying downtown or ?

I live fairly close so I'll be around the whole weekend.
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Reply #11 posted 08/11/08 2:25pm

Mach

Graycap23 said:

Mach said:




Are you staying downtown or ?

I live fairly close so I'll be around the whole weekend.


woot!

fine mad I didn't wanna stay in the same hotel anyway


lol wink

can I stay in your garage ? sleep in a car maybe ?

lol
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Reply #12 posted 08/11/08 2:41pm

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If a scientist offers you a mixed drink, don't take it,

they may have mixed it up with their own concoction.
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Reply #13 posted 08/12/08 10:23am

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Oh yeah? My Klingon Bird of Prey can outcloak your Romulan Bird of Prey! mad



Actually, I have both of these. The Klingon BoP is sitting on my desk here at work. razz
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Reply #14 posted 08/12/08 10:58am

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