anyone want an invisibility cloak?

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New 'invisibility cloak' type designed

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A new "broadband" invisibility cloak which hides objects over a wide range of frequencies has been devised.

Despite the hype about Harry Potter-style cloaks, our best current designs can only conceal objects at specific wavelengths of light or microwaves.

At other frequencies, invisibility cloaks actually make things more visible, not less, US physicists found.

Their solution is a new ultrathin, electronic system, which they describe in Physical Review Letters.

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If you want to make an object transparent at all angles and over broad bandwidths, this is a good solution”

Andrea Alu
University of Texas
"Our active cloak is a completely new concept and design, aimed at beating the limits of [current cloaks] and we show that it indeed does," said Prof Andrea Alu, from the University of Texas at Austin.

"If you want to make an object transparent at all angles and over broad bandwidths, this is a good solution.

"We are looking into realising this technology at the moment, but we are still at the early stages."
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this world is getting pretty cool

 

[HailBlazers]

yea, the end is Nye

 

[RR7]

cool things like this, but people will still complain that they don't have flying cars, so they feel bummed about idea of future from 80s"future" movies.

 

[e_blazer]

Now, if they'd just come up with a time machine I might actually be able to pull off my jr. high school dream of walking through the girl's locker room unseen.

 

[julius]

yea, the end is Nye

Is it Bill Nye the Science Guy Nye, or Speed Walker Bill Nye?

 

[magnifier661]

Now, if they'd just come up with a time machine I might actually be able to pull off my jr. high school dream of walking through the girl's locker room unseen.

Jr. High chics are hot

 

[magnifier661]

This is actually fucking awesome! I expect the military will be salivating at this.

 

[crowTrobot]

I want the actual prop used in the movies. Would be worth 5 figures at least.

 

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I want the actual prop used in the movies. Would be worth 5 figures at least.

I assume you mean the five figures you would be spying on in the women's lockerroom.

 

[Yoda_of_the_MODA]

[video=youtube;luZklMqLgDs]

 

[maxiep]

If this invention comes to fruition, perhaps the Federation won't keep getting punked by the Klingons and Romulans in the future.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

If this invention comes to fruition, perhaps the Federation won't keep getting punked by the Klingons and Romulans in the future.

or the liberals wont keep claiming their president does not lie?

 

[jlprk]

Speaking of science...this is good, right, conservatives? Now space probes will be privatized and you rich guys will pay for them, right?

Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s astrophysics program, said the shutdown terminated plans to perform long-duration high-altitude balloon flights over Antarctica. “By far and away the biggest major impact is that we’ve lost the Antarctic campaign,” he said. The shutdown took place just as the spring operating season was beginning at Antarctic research stations, delaying the transportation of personnel and equipment needed to support the balloon flights. Hertz said that even though the shutdown was over, they would not be ready to carry out the flights before upper-level winds shifted, closing the window for such flights.

The shutdown, Hertz said, also cancelled nine flights of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Observatory (SOFIA), a 747 aircraft with an infrared telescope; those flights will not be rescheduled and astronomers who lost those observations will have to submit observing proposals if they want to try again.

...Many in the planetary science community see the upcoming senior review as something of a planetary Thunderdome for Cassini and Curiosity: both missions will enter the review, but most expect only one mission to emerge given the limited funding available. If that happens, Curiosity is expected to have the edge

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2400/1

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

or the liberals wont keep claiming their president does not lie?

who claims that?

 

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or the liberals wont keep claiming their president does not lie?

really, every damned thread needs to turn into politics?

If someone wants to quote this, DLJ has me blocked. His unrelenting throatfucking of politics is getting old. There can be threads on other topics.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

really, every damned thread needs to turn into politics?

If someone wants to quote this, DLJ has me blocked. His unrelenting throatfucking of politics is getting old. There can be threads on other topics.

I <heart> you.

 

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I <heart> you.

Thanks BG, repped, and I <spleen> you. (is that right, we are just listing organs, right?)

 

[jlprk]

Notice that little sound? I'm standing behind you right now.

Sorry. I shouldn't eat tacos before donning my cloak.