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MaxuS the 2nd
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:25 pm

Read the article, it's really quite interesting..

Talks of using metamaterials to 'bend light' around themselves, making them invisible to the naked eye.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7553061.stm
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:33 pm

I can't wait until we can order sheets of that from McMaster. :D
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:35 pm

that is awesome, really, that would been cool to wrap around a cannon and play magic by throwing things that hard :D
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:41 pm

lol I love the way there all talking about getting the harry potter effect as if thats the only use they could possibly think of for it.
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:43 pm

I love how they have not ONCE thought of using this tech in an aircraft manufacturing application and adapting them to radar wavelengths.


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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:44 pm

Im not sure they would announce it to the world if they had, it would make countries nervous.
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:45 pm

Oh yeah, forgot about that. We likely already have one in service, anyway.

Classified equipment, and all that. :)
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:48 pm

would have been cool to wrap a drinking glass with it. everybody spills because it looks empty :P
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:49 pm

SEAKING9006 wrote:I love how they have not ONCE thought of using this tech in an aircraft manufacturing application and adapting them to radar wavelengths.


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Mon Aug 11, 2008 4:04 pm

this is actually pretty old, the media is just now finding about this. I read a article in scientific american some time ago.
It said the material makes light flow around it, like water around a pebble.
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:37 pm

screw u guys id go into the girls change room or dorm in my collage
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:46 pm

pocket wrote:screw u guys id go into the girls change room or dorm in my collage
You always seem to amaze me with your seemingly unintellegent replies.

Its a great scientific discovery and the ONLY thing you think of are naked chicks. Im sure if you try you could see a woman naked WITH he permission.

I cant completely say your reply is crap because i can think of one immature/un-scientific thing i would do; wrap baseballs, or rocks, in it and thorw it at people.
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:19 pm

Wow, technology is becoming more and more advanced everyday. I can't wait 'till these "cloaks" hit the public market lmao (if they ever do). Would make unlawful acts much easier to perform/get away with :shock: but I would never do anything like that :wink:
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:23 pm

Well STHORNE, youve jsut go to know that if they ever do hit the markets, the cops will of course have invisibility detectors. DUH. Haha
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Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:28 pm

Nothing like this will ever hit public markets. EVER. Too many potential uses in the commission of crimes. Although it's always nice to dream...
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