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Invisibility cloak 'step closer'

news.bbc.co.uk — Scientists in the US say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people invisible...

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  • fr3ddie, on 08/11/2008, -4/+70girls locker room.
  • kravex, on 08/11/2008, -2/+66Yeah, Yeah. I'll believe it when I see it.
  • Scaryclouds, on 08/11/2008, -1/+26Dear diary, jackpot!
  • meruru, on 08/11/2008, -3/+28Well besides the military and peeping I don't see many practical uses for this technology.
  • svensksvamp, on 08/11/2008, -0/+16dude...
  • AfroScouser, on 08/11/2008, -4/+20*Keeps a close watch over Sentry Guns*

    Goddamn spies ruin everything I create! :(
  • Typhoon2009, on 08/11/2008, -1/+16STEALTH TANK READY
  • hd95, on 08/11/2008, -1/+15She says the jungle... it just came alive and took him
  • wes00mertes, on 08/11/2008, -3/+14It's a shame it goes here first:

    "The research, funded by the US government, could one day be used in military stealth operations - with tanks made to disappear from the enemies' sight."
  • cheezwhip, on 08/11/2008, -1/+11If not for the financial clout of the government, such advances would not be made at all.
  • nekosxe, on 08/11/2008, -1/+10SPIES SAPPIN MA SENTRY
  • Ajajadude, on 08/11/2008, -2/+10I was thinking more along the lines of the Playboy Mansion
  • Koston101, on 08/11/2008, -2/+10www.therapecloak.com
  • svensksvamp, on 08/11/2008, -3/+11I can't see myself wearing one of those.
  • Dozernotz, on 08/11/2008, -1/+9I see what you did there.
  • shufan, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6If that ever happens. Mass chaos will insue. Everyone will have to buy infrared goggles.
  • Dozernotz, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6So basically a little dust, say from a desert, say in iraq, would make the the tanks visible again?

    God I love paying taxes.
  • Jauladeoro, on 08/27/2008, -1/+7It's under the invisibility cloak.
  • inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+6too bad if you're able to bend light around yourself it doesn't actually get to you. a passive invisibility cloak, on any scale, would render the user blind.
  • foofoobee, on 08/11/2008, -1/+6Did you RTFA? One of the most important immediate benefits would be in creating microscopes that are much better than current ones. The possibilities are limitless for such a major discovery about something so fundamental.
  • Dozernotz, on 08/11/2008, -0/+5Except maybe all crime?
  • borez, on 08/11/2008, -3/+8Bloody Klingons
  • adiyo011, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4Well, I've read the article and another one about tech like this. If I'm correct (that this is the same one I read about previously), it's made of out meta-materials or something and will not show heat. It's virtually invisible and will only be discovered by rips, light going out/in and mud splashes or something of the kind.
  • cesig, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5How did they take a picture of the material if it's supposed to be invisible?
  • evanfrey, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5giggity...
  • X9001, on 08/11/2008, -1/+5You would find nothing but untrimmed hedges
  • megamod, on 08/11/2008, -0/+4giggady giggady ALLRIGHT
  • Jauladeoro, on 08/27/2008, -1/+5They should be working on making a working Nimbus 2000 with the gas prices the way they are.
  • edwinjose, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3Emperor's new clothes
  • extr3mer, on 08/11/2008, -2/+5Gentlemen.
  • Eezyville, on 08/11/2008, -0/+3lol "backwards engineered"?
  • HonestAbe, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2None. It still exists entirely in the fantasies of journalists. This is not a step towards making invisibility cloaks.
  • HonestAbe, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2What a bunch of *****. Whatever happened to journalistic integrity?

    http://digg.com/tech_news/New_meta_material_doesn_ ...
  • BluesFan, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2I can remember watching a show like 10 years ago showing a demonstration using fiber optics to make soldiers invisible....they never replayed that show and I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S military already perfected the technology and is probably in use today.
  • tripledjr, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3LOL READ THE ARTICLE AND DONT ASSUME ITS THE SAME AS OLD ONES.
  • HonestAbe, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2Because it's not really invisible.
  • CharlesSaint, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2"You're one UGLY *****!"
  • Dozernotz, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2So a step closer in a process with 14000 to 15000 steps right?
  • inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+2cougar doesn't see it
  • TheAxeDude, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3
  • askantik, on 08/11/2008, -2/+4I don't mind paying taxes. I hate paying them to a country that doesn't know how to manage them.
  • Dozernotz, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1I think it went out of fashion when newsroom executives realized fiction sells as well as non-fiction and is a hell of lot easier to write.
  • dixhuit, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Ha haa. Did you actually READ the article?

    Didn't think so.

    Comment fail.
  • Triticum, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Have you considered not speeding?
  • jellyfishes, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1Apparently nobody likes Starcraft.
  • Zaggynl, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1sweet!
  • newsboys, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Pics or it didn't happen...
    waaaaiit...
  • InsaneOni, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1...and registered.
  • TheRealJMX, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1But can it fire while cloaked?
  • InsaneOni, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1the material could be made into a fine mesh (like in Ghost in the Shell) to cover your eyes so you could see through but still be almost invisible.
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