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08-28-2007, 07:17 PM
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Over a year ago, SnitchSeeker reported that physicist John Pendry was working with a team of scientists to create an invisible cloak, or rather, something like a shield to turn a person invisible. The idea was to bend light around an object using “metamaterials”.
And they succeeded, at least to some extent. The team of scientists had high hopes after having concealed a small copper cylinder. However, it is a very different story when it comes to making humans invisible, for even if a person were to remain invisible under their cloak, or shield, this person would not be able to see the exterior of the cloak.
Unfortunately for those of you who were planning to use a cloak such as this one in order to steal a few cookies from the cookie jar, this won't happen anytime soon.
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08-28-2007, 07:25 PM
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aww man, that would have been so cool!!! I was looking foward to wear it and eat chocolate....still it's cool that they managed to conceal the cylinder.
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08-28-2007, 07:28 PM
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| | Vampire
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Aww, it would have been cool though!!!!!
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08-28-2007, 07:33 PM
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That would have been really cool.
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08-28-2007, 07:38 PM
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Awww. Too bad. Well they'll figure it out eventually, I expect.
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08-28-2007, 07:39 PM
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Just eat the cookies and hide behind your belly.
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08-28-2007, 07:52 PM
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It would be cool for it to be real....
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08-28-2007, 08:00 PM
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If that was real then robbers could just go and rob stores and banks for I think its better its not made.
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08-28-2007, 08:02 PM
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Aww. Thats a total bum. Oh well..
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08-28-2007, 08:02 PM
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well, look on the bright side, they can already conceal a small cylinder. how cool is that? and you have to admit we've come a LONG way in technology and discovering things, who's to say they wont figure out invisibility in due time? 
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08-28-2007, 08:06 PM
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That would have been cool! Imagine... the invisibility umberella... even though I may already be in possession of an invisibility umberella...maybe...
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Originally Posted by Hg_fan  If that was real then robbers could just go and rob stores and banks for I think its better its not made. I definitally agree with you .. 
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08-28-2007, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by D.A Forever I definitally agree with you .. even if the invisibility cloak DOES get sucessfully made, it DEFFINITLY wouldn't be for public use. that would be just ridiculus. it would be used military wise/police wise i expect. so I assure you i think theres nothing to worry about.
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08-28-2007, 08:37 PM
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even if the invisibility cloak DOES get sucessfully made, it DEFFINITLY wouldn't be for public use. that would be just ridiculus. it would be used military wise/police wise i expect. so I assure you i think theres nothing to worry about.
If you follow the link to the previous article, you'll know that the project was supported by the Pentagon. So I assume it probably would have been used in the military. As much as the invisibility cloack being real would be really cool, it could be dangerous too. Einstein was terrified when he discovered the nuclear bomb... This story made me think of Einstein.
I think if the invisibility cloak will one day be created (by other means, perhaps in a very long time... I don't rule out the possibility), it would take quite a while before it was made public. Of course even an invisible person could be detected, with devices such as night vision goggles.
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08-28-2007, 08:43 PM
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i wish they would hurry up and make an invisibility cloak...i want one really bad
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08-28-2007, 09:03 PM
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I guess I'll have to keep stealing cookies the old-fashioned way 
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08-28-2007, 09:10 PM
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Aww, I would have liked to steal cookies.
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08-28-2007, 09:16 PM
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aww...there is still hope though...
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08-28-2007, 09:55 PM
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I think it's a strange thing to do anyway.
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08-28-2007, 10:20 PM
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aww too bad!
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08-28-2007, 10:20 PM
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It was all over the news. I'm really interested in this, as it's invisibility. I can be patient for this.
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I just go for the cookies!! 
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Aww man it would have been great to have an invisibility cloke.But guess that some things just have to remain fiction.
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