Invisibility cloak (Merged)

[jwinslow]

The UserCP is one sneaky devil.

 

[Steve19]

When they can make our bills disappear, then I will pay them more attention!

 

[buckiprof]

Yeah all this Star Trek stuff is coming to pass....

I seem to remember that a couple weeks ago, some British scientists (I think it was British) were able to transport matter from one spot to another....

For a couple of years, the ability to transport has existed. All that has been transported, so far, is a photon or two. A far cry from matter yet it has been transported nonetheless. (If only matter transportation did exist, my mother-in-law wouldn't be nearly the pain in the ass that she is.)

 

[NewYorkBuck]

Actually - I knew about this back when I worked on SDI in the early 90s.

I cant speak about much that I saw, but what I can tell you is the most cutting edge technology that you know about is at least 10 years behind what really exists.

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

So Mossy Oak is bringing out a new camo pattern?:)

 

[Mike80]

For a couple of years, the ability to transport has existed. All that has been transported, so far, is a photon or two. A far cry from matter yet it has been transported nonetheless. (If only matter transportation did exist, my mother-in-law wouldn't be nearly the pain in the ass that she is.)

It wasn't England, it was actually in Copenhagen....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/04/teleportation.reut/index.html

 

[scooter1369]

older thread on this

 

[sandgk]

older thread on this

Now how difficult to find could a thread about invisibility have been?

 

[scooter1369]

Now how difficult to find could a thread about invisibility have been?

Easily forgiven since the older thread was almost 5 months old, and would you have searched for a thread about an invisibility cloak on this board? :tongue2:

 

[sandgk]

Easily forgiven since the older thread was almost 5 months old, and would you have searched for a thread about an invisibility cloak on this board? :tongue2:

Rumor has it me, but I wasn't even here then in any guise, not here now
- wait, look over there

now I'm gone

 

[Muck]

Isn't there something more important we could be doing?

On the opening night of Desert Storm if you were the first wave tasked with taking out Iraq's air defense system....would rather be in the F-117s they used at the time or F-111s from a generation before?

The current generation of low observable technologies is reaching it's limit and it's not feasible to go back to the previous paradigm of using massive strike packages to overwhelm targets.

The same question has been asked about virtually every technology pioneered for military purposes...and yet most of them end up having even larger influences in the civilian world.

Regardless of the military applications the potential applications for the telecom industry are even larger.

Footnote: It is interesting that no mention is made of the potential use of metamaterials as beam steerers & modulators for offensive energy weapons. :)

 

[stxbuck]

Yeah all this Star Trek stuff is coming to pass....

I seem to remember that a couple weeks ago, some British scientists (I think it was British) were able to transport matter from one spot to another....

I believe I heard about this being done w/ subatomic particles about 7 or 8 years ago, apparently it hasn't progressed much beyond that.

 

[Thump]

The minute they make Charlie Weis disappear, I'll be sold on it!!

 

[ScriptOhio]

"Q" already invented an invisible car for James Bond in Die Another Day:

 

[redskinbucksfan]

I read somewhere that a government scientist perfected this whole invisibility stuff about 10 years ago - then just disapeard.

Wasn't it the guitarist from Iron Butterfly?