Real World Invisibility -- WWTT (What would Tolkien think?)

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Real World Invisibility -- WWTT (What would Tolkien think?)

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This came up in a thread that I started at B77.

Real personal invisibility is being worked on by the Department of Defense and others.

I saw a recent article on CNN: Science reveals secrets of invisibility

Here is a link to an older article from Wired:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.0 ... le_pr.html

And an image of the state of the art (note the men walking behind the girl wearing the coat):

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I wonder if this is a good thing? Very cool.

Imagine if you could package up the necessary circuitry in a convenient package--say the size of a ring...?

* precious, we wants it *

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Post by Voronwë the Faithful »

Is that what those bumper stickers that I sometimes see that say "Bush has the Ring" mean? :)
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"They were once men . . . well, except Condi. . . ."
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Hee hee! :D
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New developments on real-world invisibility:

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/475843

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Post by superwizard »

Wow :shock:

And the findings being published in Science and Nature? It must be a significant discovery indeed.
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Cool as such - but, as it's being mainly developed for military purposes, quite Gollum-like...
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Who else can afford to fund such research?

A lot of technology starts out as military research and eventually crosses over to civilian uses.

Yes, yes, I can see the connection, sorry ;).
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