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Unveiling the invisible cloak
Last Updated Thu, 25 May 2006 14:45:49 EDT
CBC News
In an engineering breakthrough that is still to be seen, scientists have unveiled a blueprint to make an invisibility cloak, like the one worn by author J.K. Rowling's boy wizard Harry Potter.

A team of British and American researchers outlined the materials they say would be needed to make such a cloak in Thursday's online issue of the journal Science.

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, sponsored the research because of its potential military applications in the field of stealth technologies.

A cloak made of a "metamaterial" wouldn't reflect light or cast a shadow.

All light or other electromagnetic waves would be steered around the object, making it invisible, said study author David Smith, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

"The theory has only now become relevant because we can make metamaterials with the properties we are looking for," Smith said in a release.

No such cloak exists yet, but the first versions for masking radiation such as microwaves could be made in about 18 months, said study co-author John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College London.

The cloak could also have applications for wireless communications, the team said.

"This is very interesting science and a very interesting idea and it is supported on a great mathematical and physical basis," Nader Engheta, a professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, told the Associated Press.

Engheta was not involved in the study, but he is also working on metamaterials.

I've read this somewhere before...

I made one, then I put it down and it cloaked itself and so I lost the damn thing.

Harry Potter perhaps...? :hihi:

Actually, it's an inside joke between Prometheus and I.

Besides, I wouldn't read those books if you fuckin' paid me.

I have of course seen the movies. Which I admit are mildly entertaining.

And that's it.

You spelled "couldn't" wrong

Didn't the Japenese develop something like this a year or so ago?

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Witticism, thy name is Coojoe.

you have a cloak over the joke...

ive read about this invention many times, especially in the scifi section of my local library :P

Wow... sounds very Star Trek like.  Hmm... art imitating life, as always.  In this case, science.

It's neat, how people think things up, years, if not centuries in advance, and eventually, once technology advances, anything is possible.

The helicopter comes to mind.  Didn't DaVinci draw pictures of it, and discuss what it was, what it could do, etc...?

Haha, you're a funny guy! Legend  :rofl:

I heard Axl was wearing one between December '02 and February of '06.   :hihi:

Oooooooooh baby! Come on with the bad puns!!!!

You know the best way to elicit a smile from me is to hit me with a bad pun. It works like a charm EVERY time... : ok:

Never heard or read anything about that. Interesting though.



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Here is the latest picture of the cloak:

But I dont see anythi............................ Oh, you clever bastard

It works then!!  : ok:

I can't believe how well the two of you work off of each other.

Funny feces... :yes:

Next show at 9 and 11............

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You two are hilarious.

Too bad they missed the performances in NY on the 17th. I'm anxiously awaiting next years Tony nominations. I think were a cinch to get nominated.

i was going to say "cause and effects"...buts thats a obscure pun too far

so will this cloak fry your brain while youre under it?...people were concerned about mobile phones near the ear, how about an electrical field covering your entire head and body...bzzzzzzzzz

Hands down.............


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Oh, yes. Us rehearsing the "Whatever Happened To My Part" number.
I told you I dont like that picture, it makes you look gay.









I however look amazing in my red smoking jacket : ok:

That is the same thing my boyfriend tells me.............

I'd rather not discuss him. That bitch wore the same color G-string as I did when we went down to Greenwich Village that night. He is dead to me now :crying:

wikud sounds kewl