How not to be seen...

[focusthis]

New materials (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/dl-mft010407.php?light)on the far horizon may improve lenses and even hide stuff!

[Baltimore Shooter]

Can someone translate that to English please?

Warren

[bluffton]

What in the wide wide world of sports did I just read. I understood it. Heck, but I don't think I could explain it. What was that about the Starship Enterprise and Vulcans coming together to cloak. Was there a treaty signing I missed.

No, It does really seem cool. It gives the opportunity for doctors to go where no doctor has gone before. That would be fantastic for night vision goggles, Camera Gain, and if it saves some lives along the way...Why not.

Focusthis, where in the world did you find this...no better yet, how? and then why were you any where near this part of the web? Do you have super double secret clearence to not only read such a journal but then distribute it?

Thanks for the read.

[focusthis]

I was FARK (http://www.fark.com/)ing from work (SFW), and found it there. I thought the idea of draping a sheet of this over unwanted elements of a scene would be cool. Kinda like the discussion a while ago about creating black backgrounds behind interview subjects.

I suppose the watered-down scientifical principle here is really just color shifting. Like when a UV (blacklight) makes your teeth glow. Yes, your eyes perceive a purple light from the lamp, but you can't see the truly ultra violet that is causing the effect. Your glowing teeth have shifted the UV rays down into the visible spectrum, and then you can see them at a different, lower, wavelength. Now, imagine reversing the shift so the light you could formerly see is now above the spectrum where your eyes work.... or something like that.




/ at least that's what I got from the article.
// and please don't call me Clerence.

[cameradog]

Well now, if I understood that correctly, this wouldn't actually give you a cloaking device. The material might shift the light hitting it out of the visible spectrum, but light hitting it from the other side still wouldn't pass through it. An object covered in this material would still block the background. Basically you'd just see a black mass moving around, like a shadow.

It might be good camouflage for night operations. It would also probably look scary as sh*t if you wore a suit of it during the day. Especially if you equipped it with red, glowing eyes. And horns. And big metal claws.

[focusthis]

One might be tempted to affix a circle cut from this cloth to a mountainside, thus confusing the coyote into running into what he thought was a tunnel.






/What will ACME think of next?
// was Wile E. really a "super genius"??
///{prolly shouldn't submit under the influence}

[cameradog]

One might be tempted to affix a circle cut from this cloth to a mountainside, thus confusing the coyote into running into what he thought was a tunnel.

LOL!























(Why won't the board just let me say "LOL"? I only wanted to say "LOL" to express my amusement, but the board responded that "LOL" isn't a long enough message. Why not? If "LOL" gets the point across, it's plenty long enough. But no! The message board says if I want to say "LOL," I have to say something else with it. I wonder if "ROTFLMFAO" is long enough. But that wouldn't be an accurate expression of my mirth. Damned computers.)

[SeattleShooter]

ROTFLMAO


Nope, it does not work.

[focusthis]

Update to the light absorbing material story.
http://www.physorg.com/news91978273.html