Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
wonder if this will stop the nudie pictures from being flashed in front of the minimum wage employee at the airport?
if so, BRING IT ON!
Romulan technology?
This isn’t good news - if our enemies get their hands on it, it could make us very much less safe from nuclear attack than we have ever been. (From an ex-sonarman in the navy)
bflr
Fang and a cloaking device sounds like a Plot for a old Sean Connery 007 movie.
The science behind basic “cloaking” of an object from waves of some form, light, sound, what have you, shouldn’t be all that complex. Calculate trajectory and speed of an incoming wave and project it out the other side. The sheer number of calculations, inputs and outputs would be a problem, though.
As far as “invisibility,” envision a head-to-toe suit with millions of embedded CCD/LED nodules registering inputs and emitting outputs, with the computing power to handle it all. You’d only see the faintest hint of something even close up, due to the projection of color and light from behind, on all sides and at every angle. It’d be a slightly pixelated, everchanging chameleon suit, the perfect camo.
There are devices that destroy sound by emitting the opposite frequency, and have been for years, to the point of inclusion in automobile mufflers. This is a one-sided application of the same idea. It’s much harder to continue a wave on, with an illusion as if unimpeded, than it is to just neutralize it.
Hmmm - some potential problems that weren’t addressed in the article:
1. How does our sub receive the signal back when they ping for other subs? Wouldn’t the cloak absorb that, too?
2. How do whales get out of the way of an oncoming sub doing 40 knots, when whales rely on their own type of sonar for navigation? That kind of accident would do a lot of damage to the sub and the Captain’s career, not to mention the whale.
3. Doesn’t underwater sub navigation depend on reliable sonar?
4. This should make for some interesting ‘tag’ games with the Russians and the Chinese, LOL.
Lots of potential problems here - hope these are being addressed.
by enclosing them in a massive earplug