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Jedi Master Spock
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by Jedi Master Spock » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:01 pm
See
here.
Hmm...
So if you had a working cloaking device, what would
you do with it?
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Nonamer
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by Nonamer » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:56 pm
Please note that this is only microwave cloaking, and pretty much only in 2D.
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AnonymousRedShirtEnsign
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by AnonymousRedShirtEnsign » Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:25 am
So it basically works by bending waves in a controlled manner? Further refinement would include the ability to bend all three types of waves.
I was wondering if the shape of the cloaked object mattered, because if it can only be spherical then its applications are more limited.
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by GStone » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:41 pm
It seems dependent upon the size of the material than its shape, so it should work when in any shape.
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by AnonymousRedShirtEnsign » Sat Oct 21, 2006 8:06 pm
So the military could use it for pretty much everything except firearms, cool. But if it is an artificial mirage then it isn't invisible, just distorted, like a Trek cloaking device.
Anyways, I would use it to cloak a nuclear missile and hold the world ransom for ... one million dollars!