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Fantasy no longer! Invisibility code cracked
WND (World Net Daily) ^ | 11/19/2017 | Alicia Powe

Posted on 11/19/2017 2:04:10 PM PST by Robert DeLong

WASHINGTON – Top scientists in Israel are on the verge of a revolutionary breakthrough, creating a cloak that can render a person invisible.

In their real-world quest for invisibility, scientists at Ben-Gurion University have developed a device that scatters light away from an object so it cannot be detected, making the object invisible to the eye.

Physicists developed the method for concealing objects based on the study of “metamaterials,” which focuses on exploiting and controlling light by examining how it interacts with objects.

Those arrays of minuscule components bend, scatter, transmit or otherwise shape electromagnetic radiation in ways that no natural material can, according to Nature.com.

Bending electromagnetic radiation, such as light, around an object, gives the appearance that the object isn’t there at all, but still can be located by infrared sensors or radar.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cloaking; invisible; invisiblepeople; israel; siegfried; stringtheory; tarnkappe
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This is cool, but also somewhat frightening at the same time.
1 posted on 11/19/2017 2:04:11 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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2 posted on 11/19/2017 2:05:23 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Nothing new here. The GOPe developed this for their spines decades ago.


3 posted on 11/19/2017 2:08:58 PM PST by BobL ( I drive a pickup truck because it makes me feel like a man.)
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They had something like this about 10 years ago.

It’s probably an incremental improvement on that.


4 posted on 11/19/2017 2:09:07 PM PST by gaijin (Basically Obama lawyers would blatantly make up some totally groundless allegation against a fat cas)
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To: Robert DeLong

Possible solution to the “Man in the Woman’s room problem”?


5 posted on 11/19/2017 2:09:53 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Paladin2

All I need to do is set a plate of food down, and my Bassett hound can be perfectly invisible to me until I hear the silverware clanking on the plate.

The news story says they still need to build a prototype, so seems not quite there yet.


6 posted on 11/19/2017 2:12:12 PM PST by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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and infrared will defeat it. Possibly also UV spectrum will as well. You know, just because You Can Do Something, it doesn't Mean You Should

People have forgotten that simple principle. It is a crying shame, too.

7 posted on 11/19/2017 2:12:16 PM PST by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Robert DeLong

...cover a jet fighter in it —


8 posted on 11/19/2017 2:12:17 PM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: fella

Way better than a burka.


9 posted on 11/19/2017 2:12:58 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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SOON THE ENTIRE IDF WILL HAVE THIS TECVNOLOHY/CAPABILITY,.


10 posted on 11/19/2017 2:15:13 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Chipper

Try finding a Black Lab outside on a moonless night.

They are already tough enough to “photograph” in the sunshine on a sunny day.

Total photon traps.


11 posted on 11/19/2017 2:15:37 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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You know what this means? No more speeding tickets!


12 posted on 11/19/2017 2:23:22 PM PST by tje
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They had something like this about 10 years ago.

I heard they put it down somewhere and are still looking for it.

13 posted on 11/19/2017 2:28:30 PM PST by infool7 (Pray, Think, Pray, Act, Pray Pray Pray...)
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Burglars will get it and walk right into your house/business behind you in broad daylight.
You`ll see all your stuff and cash go floating right out the door.


14 posted on 11/19/2017 2:28:39 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (s.)
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Cool. Now if we can just master time travel. Go back or forward, make yourself invisible, and fix what needs fixing.


15 posted on 11/19/2017 2:30:01 PM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Shoot just below the pair of floating eyes...


16 posted on 11/19/2017 2:32:00 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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Just be careful not to run into another invisible car.
17 posted on 11/19/2017 2:35:36 PM PST by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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Not long ago, the biggest civilian market for an invisibility cloak would have been boys wanting to hang out in the girls locker room. That market has probably dried up now; because boys just have to declare that they’re actually girls, and waltz right in.


18 posted on 11/19/2017 2:37:17 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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I was gonna ask if we could see it but then I remembered what it was.


19 posted on 11/19/2017 2:38:03 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Think how much groping Al Franken could do wearing one of those babies.


20 posted on 11/19/2017 2:38:08 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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