Amazing

[mr_thebrain]

Holy crap this just blows my mind.

[Oliver Dale]

It's a cool start. But I'm still waiting on my hoverboards and auto-drying jackets.

[anonshadow]

Holy s***.

That's just absolutely incredible.

[mr_thebrain]

heh. you keep waiting for that.

Holy s***.

That's just absolutely incredible.

Agreed.

[anonshadow]

I want my teleporter, please.

[mr_thebrain]

Well, as we discussed in my previous science update, the only teleportation we can manage as of yet is with information. which is progressing nicely. They've discovered how to purify entanglement. so i figure in about 5-10 years we'll have quantum modems. human teleportation will almost definately never be able to happen.

[lyons24000]

That is amazing. Utterly amazing. I didn't even feel that anything like that was possible even though a friend of mine told me that it theoretically was and explained how it could be done. I just didn't have an opinion on the matter. But I figured this was coming.

It's just that my friend ruined it by saying that the government already had these invisibility cloaks (actually he said they were more like space suits and worked using mirrors) and that government offficials were walking among us in busy streets in busy cities (Dallas, New York, Los Angeles). Why does everyone have this idea that the government is all-powerful?

[mr_thebrain]

mmmmm got to love conspiracy theories

[Luet]

It's a cool start. But I'm still waiting on my hoverboards and auto-drying jackets.

Did you mean that to be a reference to Back to the Future II?

[Oliver Dale]

It's a cool start. But I'm still waiting on my hoverboards and auto-drying jackets.

Did you mean that to be a reference to Back to the Future II?

You are gooood, madam.

[hive_king]

I refuse the concept that the government has supertechnology. I mean, come on. These guys can't even balance the budget or invade Cuba without messing things up.

Though I must admit, there are some pretty scary ways that someone could use this invisibility technology.

[suminonA]

Though I must admit, there are some pretty scary ways that someone could use this invisibility technology.

Does this mean that you have something to hide?

As a side joke, it seems it's scary when an inherently flawed human organization uses it (so it will fail in its intents), but it's ok when an all-powerful deity does?

Talk about double-standards

A.

edit: grammar

[mr_thebrain]

but it's ok when an all-powerful deity does?

leave my intentions out of this

[Dr. Mobius]

I want a stealth tank. If they can cloak a cylinder, how long before they can do so with an Abrams?

[mr_thebrain]

I want a stealth body suit. ooohhhh the uses.

[Bevis]

LOCAL DEITY FOUND IN WOMEN'S DRESSING ROOM

Blushing, the holy one declares "It's hard to hold a cloak with one hand."

[mr_thebrain]

LMAO! exactly.

[eriador]

The fact is that this technology will integrate itself into society so slowly that nobody will really notice the change.

Before invisibility is available to the public, there will be ways of detecting invisible people, so it's a moot point.

[peterlocke123]

At first, I don't think anybody would buy a device that would detect invisible people because there wouldn't be very many invisibility "cloaks" out there. But then, once there are more in the public, would people really shell out all that money just on the slightest chance someone is watching them? It would be unwise to buy the invisibility detector until it is small enough and cheap enough to not be too big of a deal. That is unless everybody buys an invisibility cloak...

[eriador]

The thing is that the detector is much easier to make than the cloak itself. So, the detectors will always be smaller and cheaper than the cloaks. An invisibility cloak will always be no more than a novelty.

[mr_thebrain]

c'mon, how many women will take cloak detectors into the showers with them?

[eriador]

It could be more integrated than that....

Say, a house-wide system that would sound an alarm if a cloaked person was present.

I don't know.

But you could try!

[mr_thebrain]

i definately would! at least until i get my x-ray vision installed

[eriador]

Damn. I thought I was immature.

[mr_thebrain]

not immature, honest. i would guess that at least 90% of the men in the world would consider sneaking into the women's showers.

[eriador]

Boys will be boys.


'nuff said.

[peterlocke123]

Agreed.

[vendor]

I also found an article about it here

[vendor]

has anybody seen the movie The Invisible Man?

people could see him when he was caught in the rain.

[eriador]

Okay, speaking of rain, I'm going to rain on the parade a bit.

This 'breakthrough' only works in two dimensions and only hides an object made entirely of a very specific material in a very specific way. How would this change into a cloak that could hide everything underneath it? Is this even the right technology, maybe fiber optics are a better idea?

I don't know.

[Boothby]

I refuse the concept that the government has supertechnology. I mean, come on. These guys can't even balance the budget or invade Cuba without messing things up.

H_K, you're right. I worked for the government for about 10 years or so ( for various subcontractor firms), and we have no "super-technology."

No supertechnology at all. Totally none. Not even the least little bit. Really. None.

[eriador]

No self respecting conspiracy theorists will believe you boothby.

Sorry.

[vendor]

I understand that Steve must say what he said. the government must maintain control.

jk!

[starlooker]

No supertechnology at all. Totally none. Not even the least little bit. Really. None.

Really? None at all? Not even an eensy weensy bit?

For some reason, even though I didn't think we had any to start with, I find myself feeling rather disappointed at that. Like how I felt when my mom told me there was no Santa, even though I already knew it before she told me.

[mr_thebrain]

Bridge for sale