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New Star Trek-style 'cloaking device' will make objects invisible
24dash.com ^
| 10/19/06
| Ian Morgan
Posted on 10/19/2006 4:18:27 PM PDT by B Knotts
A Star Trek-style "cloaking device" has been built using technology developed to make objects invisible.
The "cloak", based on a British design concept, measures less than five inches across and only responds to radar waves.
But within five years there might be devices powerful enough to make whole vehicles "vanish" - including battlefield tanks.
An invisibility cloak blueprint was produced in May by Professor Sir John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College London.
Just five months later, scientists working with him in the US have put the idea into practice.
The concept involves bending visible light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation such as radar, around the object being hidden.
An observer looking at the cloaked object will see light deflected from behind, making it seem to disappear.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: cloaking; device; klingon; romulan
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How about that, eh?
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:18:29 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: B Knotts
They can make a billfold loaded with money disappear, but it always comes back empty. :-\
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:20:30 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... http://www.pendleton8.com/ ...... http://www.bootmurtha.com/)
To: B Knotts
Mine works perfect.
Here is a pic of my house......
Amazing isn't it???
To: B Knotts
Sounds like a re-enactment of the "Philadelphia Story".
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:21:23 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: AntiGuv
To: B Knotts
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:21:43 PM PDT
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
To: B Knotts
Whoever posted the Klingon keyword, it was Romulan.
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:21:50 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: B Knotts
Karl Rove- way to go. It should work on the voting machines in the Democratic districts.
Has this thread been encrypted?
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:22:12 PM PDT
by
Mark
(REMEMBER: Mean spirited, angry remarks against my postings won't feed even one hungry child.)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Looks just like my house during a blizzard.
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:23:49 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: B Knotts
Is this anything like Jack Bauer's Magic Hoodie?
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:25:07 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
To: B Knotts
Already on my Christmas list.
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:25:32 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(The Democrat Party's '06 platform: Offering a "Suicide Pact With America.")
To: SpaceBar
Right you are. My mistake. I had forgotten that although the Klingons got their hands on cloaking tech later, it was indeed the Romulans who invented it. :-)
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:25:43 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Newt '08!)
To: NY Attitude
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:25:59 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(The Democrat Party's '06 platform: Offering a "Suicide Pact With America.")
To: B Knotts
Did they get it from a sexy Romulan commander?
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:26:06 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: B Knotts
Some will laugh, but mark my post here in less than 20 years you will be amazed at what we are doing in the military and what som eo fthe applications will be for all of us. We now have direct energy weapons that can drill thru metal at a hundred miles away as well as jeep mounted ones that do the same over less distance. In other words...Star Wars like stuff is coming and will come faster than you think.
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:26:53 PM PDT
by
ICE-FLYER
(God bless and keep the United States of America)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Nice landscaping....
Signed...
The Invisible Man
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:26:53 PM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
To: John Jorsett
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:27:28 PM PDT
by
Zebra
To: B Knotts
those things never seem to wo
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:28:11 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
( Al Lahsucks...Islam: nothing that a good crusade wouldn't fix ;; mercy is wasted on the merciless.)
To: My2Cents
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:29:29 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(You are responsible for your safety until the arrival of Law Enforcement Officers!)
To: B Knotts
Can we get a 7 of 9 photo, please?
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posted on
10/19/2006 4:29:33 PM PDT
by
YourAdHere
(Why is it that we can read Foley's e-mails but not Al-Qaeda's?)
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