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Lupin_the_3rd 01-13-2004 05:44 PM

Thoughts on invisibility
 
think it's possible to achieve actual invisibility, or just some way to reflect shit off mirrors or project some crap

ok whatever

heyhey11 01-13-2004 06:04 PM

Probably because there are so many different ideas on how

One of them has to work

BluE_MeaniE 01-13-2004 11:02 PM

There are things "invisible to the naked eye" that we can't see, if they are small enough.
Also, in white light, you can't see all the colors unless you have a prism or some other way to refract light, but they're there.
But if you mean a fairly large object that you can touch and feel, and whatnot, but not see, I don't believe that's possible.

Feuergeist 01-13-2004 11:21 PM

I can turn invisible when nobodys looking.

Arch0wl 01-14-2004 09:10 AM

People always say what they would do if they were invisible or could be invisible.. I would probably just use it to spy on people if I suspected them of something, or just going around messing with people. Have you ever thought about it, what it would be like? You couldn't take anything from any super high security place because they have lasor sensors, and even if you did, it's heavily immoral and the guilt would catch up to you. I think having XRay vision would be by far the most useful and profitable of all the super powers, though I'd rather have eternal life than XRay vision.

87x 01-14-2004 09:59 AM

well.. invisibilty, as Blue meanie described it, will never happen... but i believe that there will be some sort of cloaking device that will make you invisible.. but it wouldnt be like you could see straight through it.. more like if you were to see someone with it on it would be like looking through a curved mirror.. partially skewed and distorted.. for reference look at what the characters on halo look like when using invisibility

JustJono 01-14-2004 04:41 PM

If you're entire body went invisible, you'd be completely blind.

Lupin_the_3rd 01-14-2004 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arch0wl
People always say what they would do if they were invisible or could be invisible.. I would probably just use it to spy on people if I suspected them of something, or just going around messing with people. Have you ever thought about it, what it would be like? You couldn't take anything from any super high security place because they have lasor sensors, and even if you did, it's heavily immoral and the guilt would catch up to you. I think having XRay vision would be by far the most useful and profitable of all the super powers, though I'd rather have eternal life than XRay vision.

but if the lasers went off could they find you? no (if they didn't know invisibility existed)

insomniakxz 01-14-2004 04:46 PM

i don't see how invisibility is possible without any technology. transparent cells?! I agree that an invisible person would distory the image seen through the person, as shown in games [starcraft, starcraft ghost] and movies [predator, that james bond one] like when gas is clear.

Lupin_the_3rd 01-14-2004 04:49 PM

yeah...i'm pretty sure that would be the only form of cloaking technology that we would have within the next few hundred years

then again, look 100 years ago when the first plane was flown...now look at the fighter jets we now possess

ThunderMage 01-30-2004 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JustJono
If you're entire body went invisible, you'd be completely blind.

Well put. If the dark choroid layer of your eye becomes completely invisible, then your eyes won't be able to trap light so you can't see anything. Other colored pigments in your body are also essential to suvival; if they are bleached, you will die.

The closest thing to invisibility we'll ever achieve is probably a clocking device that manipulates light.

Laharl 01-30-2004 12:50 AM

I assume you've all seen the latest Bond film and saw the cloaking car. Well, that technology is actually on the verge of being completed. I've seen pictures of a guy in a coat, and you can't really see where the coat or anything inside is at. You can still see the person, yeah, but I imagine that in a war-time situation, it'd be hard as hell to.

ZEROED 01-30-2004 01:01 AM

do you have pics or link

Laharl 01-30-2004 03:19 AM

No, and the thread I got it from is ages old, through a few total crashes of said board. I don't think I could find it even if I felt like digging through a year of posts.

alainbryden 01-30-2004 08:33 AM

Laharl, what you're talking about is a little different than cloaking. What it is is a camera that records what is behind the person and projects it to scale on the person so that he blends in to the background, current army technology research, but it's not all that good and definately not conveniant to carry around this camera and projector.

I think the only real possibility, base on our current knowledge of physics, would be to create an entire suit of micro fiber-optics carefully woven that light in the back is transmitted to directly the same location in the front. Even this wouldn't work all that well. That's my input.

Lupin_the_3rd 01-30-2004 03:28 PM

i think we should all ask sauron to make us magic rings

chardish 01-30-2004 10:33 PM

Who sssssssaysssssss he hassssssssn't?

......sssshirrrre......

LifesEagle 01-30-2004 10:44 PM

Sauron is technically unable, the only reason he is alive is because his life force was bound to the ring and the ring survived.

thepenisblu 01-30-2004 10:51 PM

I dont think invisibility is really possible because I dont think there is a way you can make someone clear. There could be a REALLY complex way, but we arent that advanced yet.

Lupin_the_3rd 01-31-2004 10:42 AM

200 years ago, people would have labeled you as crazy if you so much as mentioned a machine which would allow you to fly


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