Thursday, January 15, 2009

...this just in....Duke University employing Romulans...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — They can't match Harry Potter yet, but scientists are moving closer to creating a real cloak of invisibility.

Researchers at Duke University, who developed a material that can "cloak" an item from detection by microwaves, report that they have expanded the number of wavelengths they can block.

In 2006 the team reported they had developed so-called metamaterials that could deflect microwaves around a three-dimensional object, essentially making it invisible to the waves.

The system works like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.

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I'd be happy if they could just make Paris Hilton, et al, disappear from my TV.
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Steve says, live long and prosper, or nanoo nanoo, or klaatu barada nikto...
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17 comments:

Anonymous said...

klaatu barada nikto...

I think I used to have that album. In fact if I looked in the attic - I still might. A big 10".

Anonymous said...

I wonder if it'll work on my wife.

Anonymous said...

WORD OF THE DAY
ANCHOR BABY, n.

A millstone around the neck of legal American denizens, these crying poopers put their border jumping scumbag parents on the fast track to tax-funded freebies.

Anonymous said...

yeah yeaah...Klingons around yer anus

Schteveo said...

Anon,
if you're like most of us, it's SONIC cloaking you need, so as not to hear most of what's going on. OR, we need personal cloaking devices for us, to hide from them periodically.


What amazes me is that many people mocked these guys just two years ago. "...can't be done...never miniaturize...too much power...blah, blah, blah". I guess the people who say those things don't remember that the first true computer, Eniac, took up almost 700 sq ft, weighed about 28 tons and needed 150 kW of power.

OR

The IBM CEO (?) who said there was a possible need for 5 or 6 computers worldwide.

OR

Bill Gates saying the maximum amount of computer memory anyone would ever need was 64K.


There are about a million other such examples I'm sure.

Anonymous said...

Hope and Change you can believe in. In his continuing effort to make the world a safer place and backtrack on campaign promises, the President-to-be Obama, doen't think Osama has to be killed to be neutralized.

Story was widely reported in all US new sources - NOT!
UK Times Online

Quote 1:
My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him," he said. "But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America."

Quote 2:
As recently as October 7, in a presidential debate, Mr Obama said: "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."

Anonymous said...

Dis coon be a bigger lier than Clinton and he ain't even be de Pezident yets.

This may bode well.

Schteveo said...

Too bad they didn't cloak Pres.-elect BOHICA.

Or maybe do that thing where Scotty transports him into space, "...widest possible dispersion...".

Anonymous said...

"...where he'll be no tribble at all."

[paraphrase]

Anonymous said...

I like earth women

Schteveo said...

Mork,
could it be because Earth Girl's are Easy?

Anonymous said...

Ready for this?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56626

"Grammie" or whatever name he wants to call me!! said...

Cocaine & homo sex. The Magic Negro has all kinds of tricks up his sleeve.

Blue said...

yea but, that article is dated Feb 2008 - why haven't we heard anything else on homo sex & drugs???

kiddies - not everything the media puts out is true, sometimes they make stuff up

Schteveo said...

I've got plenty of reasons to dislike Pres.-elect BOHICA, but these two I couldn't care any less about. This is playing to who anyway? Leftists LOVE homoerotic druggies!! It's what they aspire to.

(does Michelle know!? she looks kinda butch i'm thinkin' strap-on!!)

That fact that he did / did not give / take one in the poop shoot, is completely irrelevant to his ability to make decisions. I know plenty of hetero adults who can't decide their way out of a paper sack!!

And the old, "...and he did drugs too...", again, I know people who've never had a drink or a toke who are USE-LESS.

Maybe BOHICA will approve cloaking device technology research for our military.

It could happen!!

Anonymous said...

Just to remind you Star Trek fans, use of the cloaking device is unethical. Therefore, the UFP rejected the technology as standard issue. After peace with the Clingons, only the bad guy Clingons and Romulans used the device.

Live long and prosper!

Anonymous said...

I appologize to the bad girl Clingons-they used the cloaking device as well. Wouldn't want to be non-inclusive would I?