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2007-04-07 Science

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Posted by zazz 2007-04-07 03:31|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I can't see it happening.

Posted by Grunter 2007-04-07 09:05|| 2007-04-07 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Grunter, that was cheesy. Anybody got a story about projecting holograms to the enemy? Cool stuff I hear. Imagine the ways you could really mind-F the enemy by projecting flying ham sandwiches splattering themselves on Korans...

Posted by covertfloridian 2007-04-07 10:08|| 2007-04-07 10:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm afraid Grunter's right, this is strictly lab fantasy, better to mirror polish your airplane, then it'll reflect the sky around it. Not exactly invisible, but close.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-07 11:02|| 2007-04-07 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 You want to fuck with their minds? Project flying pigs, that'l do it.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-07 11:04|| 2007-04-07 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 And here I was, thinking that someone had finally succeeded in harnessing the liberal left's ability to ignore Islam's terrorist threat.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-07 12:45|| 2007-04-07 12:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Great; call me back when they have shields and photon torpedoes...

Posted by Raj 2007-04-07 13:32|| 2007-04-07 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Their approach is interesting, but will never be very satisfactory, because it is attempting to fool our eyes, which are finely attuned to look for discrepancies.

They would have more luck ignoring the eyes and trying to deceive the brain. That is, there are some illusions that bypass the eyes and take place in the brain. A "color wheel" is one such:

A white disk with black markings is spun, and at a particular speed, it creates the illusion of color directly in the brain. They know this, because even people who are completely color blind can still see colors with a color wheel, which as you can imagine, they find utterly hypnotic.

There are three things the brain can do when it perceives such a thing: it can either intently focus on it; or it can rationalize it away with illusion, such as color; or it can totally ignore it--a mental "blind spot". And this is the desired effect.

An illusive appearance that is so irritating to the mind that the mind ignores it--and thus you are de facto invisible. If perfected, literally a person could be looking right at you and see everything around you, but not see you.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-07 20:49|| 2007-04-07 20:49|| Front Page Top

#8 An illusive appearance that is so irritating to the mind that the mind ignores it

You mean like Pelosi's arrogation of foreign policy making?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-07 21:54|| 2007-04-07 21:54|| Front Page Top

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